In the wake of multiple challenges facing GPS and its parent company and the departure of Johan Forslof to run the new RI Surf club, GPS Rhode Island has announced that Aidan Abolfazi who will become GPS-RI interim manager through the summer programming.
Here is some background information about Abolfazi:
- BA in Sports and Recreation Management and MA in Sports Management; both from Franklin Pierce University
- Current Rhode Island College Men’s Assistant Coach
- Goalkeeper for the Bay State Soccer League’s Worcester County Football Club
- Former goalkeeper coach at Franklin Pierce
- Former boys’ junior varsity soccer coach at Doherty High School in Worcester in 2017 and 2018.
- Former GPS Fortis FC goalkeeper coach and the U-13 boys’ coach.
- Spent four seasons at Franklin Pierce as a goalkeeper from 2013-16 and was a member of an NCAA Tournament team during his senior year in 2016.
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