{"id":15868,"date":"2012-10-05T11:40:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=15868"},"modified":"2012-10-05T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:47:06","slug":"pioneers-molinari-returns-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=15868","title":{"rendered":"Pioneers’ Molinari to Return in ’13"},"content":{"rendered":"

While one manager in the Commonwealth was given the ax after his first year on the job, another signed on the dotted line for a second season.<\/p>\n

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Pioneers head coach Federico Molinari. (Photo: Western Mass Pioneers)<\/p><\/div>\n

On Friday, the Western Mass Pioneers announced that head coach\u00a0Federico Molinari will return to the helm in 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am glad to be the head coach of the Pioneers for another season,\u201d Molinari said in a statement on Friday. \u201cWe were very close again to making the playoffs and I am excited to build on what we had in the 2012 season.”<\/p>\n

During his first season in charge, the Pioneers finished third in PDL’s Northeast Division with a 6-4-6 record (24 points), missing the playoffs by eight points. The Pioneers allowed a division-low 11 goals as goalkeeper Warren Gross led all of PDL with nine clean sheets.<\/p>\n

Prior to taking the coaching reins in 2012, Molinari, 33, played for the Pioneers from 2006-11 as a defender. He hails from La Plata, Argentina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Head coach Federico Molinari will return for a second season with the Pioneers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[84,91],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15868"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15879,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions\/15879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}