Tony DiCicco

Tony DiCicco led the US women’s football team to the 1996 Olympic gold medal as the head coach. He was US Women’s National Team (USWNT) head coach from 1994-99 and also led the USA to the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup championship. As USWNT head coach DiCicco won 103 games, lost 8, and had 8 ties. He later led the USA women’s team to the U-20 Women World Cup title in 2008.

DiCicco had been an All-American at Springfield College as a goalkeeper, and then played professionally for five years, with the American Soccer League’s Connecticut Wildcats and the Rhode Island Oceaneers. He coached the US goalkeepers at the 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup, as that team also won the title.

In 2000 DiCicco helped found the Women’s United Soccer Association, serving as the commissioner of that short-lived league from 2000-03. He later coached the Boston Breakers of National Women’s Soccer League from 2009-11.