Berhane Andeberhan Bio

Job Title:  Technical Director,

Head Coach - Boca Jrs 90 Girls (U17) and Boca Jrs 89 Boys (U18)

Phone: 916.489.2272

                                    E-mail Address: berhane@capitalathletic.com

Berhane Andeberhan, who joined Capital Athletic Soccer Academy in February 2006, is a member of the Cal State Los Angeles Golden Eagles Athletic Hall of Fame and a former US Staff Coaching Schools instructor and U20 Women’s National Team coach .  As Technical Director, he oversees all CASA coaching programs encompassing our player development program and our coaching education.  He is also responsible for our College Choice advising program.

He brings over 30 years of coaching experience including at the youth, the high school, collegiate, regional and national levels.  He served as a coaching instructor at the US Soccer Coaching schools from 1976 -2001.  He coached men’s college soccer teams at USC and Cal State Los Angeles and women’s college teams at Stanford and Cornell.  He led Cal State Los Angeles to National Ranking and was an NCAA finalist in 1981.  That year he was named NSCAA Metropolitan Far West Coach of the Year and earned four CCAA Conference Coach of the year honors.  At Stanford he also served as the Director of Soccer overseeing both men’s and women’s programs and was a World Cup 94 liaison at Stanford University.  As a member of the US National Coaching staff, he coached the Women’s West Regional Teams to Olympic Festival gold medals in 1986, 1987 and 1988 and a silver medal in 1985.  He also served as the senior amateur West Regional coach for both women’s and men’s teams.

Andeberhan attended UCLA on an academic scholarship where he earned his BA degree in Zoology and was a member of the first ever Bruin varsity team and he served as captain of the team in 1971 when the team was an NCAA finalist.  He holds an MS in Microbiology from Loma Linda University and is a Ph. D. candidate in Food Science at Cornell University.  In addition to coaching he has taught collegiate Microbiology at Cal State Los Angeles and was a Research Specialist at Cornell University.  In soccer he holds a Brazilian ABTF International Professional Coaching License and the US Soccer A License and has attended numerous national and international seminars.  He has been a member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America for 26 years.