A native of Lima, Peru, Alvaro came to the United States at the age of 6 to Brentwood NY. But it was his love for the game that was noticed before he even turned 2 years old, as he started kicking a ball. His first-ever role model was his father and Co-Coach Ernesto Phan.
Started playing soccer for the Brentwood Soccer Club, he had always been a very good player and has always been surrounded by great teammates.
It was not until he was 12 years old that he moved to play for the Northport soccer Club, and finished his club soccer there while Ernesto was the coach with Coach Jim Spampinato. They had a very successful club team playing against top teams and players across Long Island, New York and Eastern region.
This was also the time where Alvaro began his soccer high school career playing as a ninth grader on the Varsity team. He had a very successful playing career, Lead League 1 in goals as a junior, was ranked as a top 10 players to watch in his senior year.
His accolades include:
2 time all league, 2 time All conference, All County, All State, ALL East player.
Following his High School career, he Started his college playing career at Suffolk Community Colleges west. He was joined with a handful of his Brentwood teammates and had a very successful career. In their second year together, they achieved a #2 in the country ranking. He was awarded with All conference honors both years and in his second year was NJCAA ALL America award recipient, as well as NSCAA ALL America recipient.
His next step was playing at Division 1 Fordham University. Had a good career playing at the D1 level, he continued his journey playing semi pro.
Upon graduating he began his coaching career at Fordham Prep, Coaching the U16G LIJ Select team, and private soccer training.
His coaching career took a great leap being named Assistant Varsity Coach at Chaminade High School in 2004 to this present day 2023. He was promoted to Associate Head Coach in 2017.
He has won countless league titles and 8 State titles with Coach Mike Gallagher. Two of the winningest Coaches in NY State.
To this day Coach AL continues to teach the game to his players in a way that makes it great to learn, then to produce on and off field.
Welcome players and parents to our information page. We are a Long Island based soccer training company that puts dedication, time and heart into training our players and teams. We pride ourselves in our ability to coach and train players that will reach the next level, on and off the field. We provide personal, group and team development training.
We have been developing, training and coaching on Long Island since 2002. We have had the pleasure to have seen numerous teams and players around Long Island reach higher levels of play from high school, college and pro level. We provide soccer coaching, in 1 on 1, group and team settings.
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