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Head Coach Charlie Inverso
Men's Soccer
24th season
It takes a while to count up the many wins and championships Mercer County Community College men’s soccer has secured under head coach Charlie Inverso. Yet there are other important numbers with which the 24th-year coach is particularly proud. About 130 of his former players have graduated from MCCC and gone on to play soccer at their transfer schools. Over 40 former players have become college or high school coaches. Sixteen former players have played professionally. In short, Inverso’s MCCC soccer program churns out excellence both on and off the playing field.
Inverso debuted at MCCC with a 21-4 record in 1986 and has compiled a 420-44-14 mark in his first 23 seasons, winning five of the men’s soccer program’s eight National Championships: NJCAA Division I titles in 1988, 1991, 1995, 1996 and, most recently, 2004, with a 3-1 win over Georgia Perimeter in the final. Inverso has taken 18 squads to the National Tournament, including eight straight from 2001-08. Along the way, his Vikings squads have dominated the Garden State Athletic Conference, Region 19 and Northeast District.
Inverso has been named the National Coach of the Year four times and was inducted into the NJCAA Soccer Hall of Fame in 2006. His longtime assistant coach, Larry Povia, joined him in the Hall of Fame in 2008. Also, Inverso was inducted into the Mercer County Soccer Hall of Fame in 2004.
Prior to MCCC, Inverso was an assistant coach at Princeton University from 1980-85. He serves as a staff coach for the Region 1 Olympic Development Program and as goalkeeper coach for Under-14 and Under-16 U.S. National soccer teams. He also instructs at soccer camps and clinics.
As a player, Inverso was the goalkeeper of the 1974 Notre Dame High School (Lawrence, N.J.) Parochial ‘A’ state championship squad and went on to be a standout player and captain at Trenton State College, where he earned BS and MS degrees in Physical Education.
Inverso is a teacher at Crockett Middle School in Hamilton, N.J. He and his wife, Lynne, live in Robbinsville, N.J., with their daughter, Hailey, and son, C.J.
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