{"id":31074,"date":"2015-01-25T15:23:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T20:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=31074"},"modified":"2015-01-25T15:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T20:24:36","slug":"pdl-pioneers-tab-gomes-as-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=31074","title":{"rendered":"PDL: Pioneers Tab Gomes as Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31076\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dennis-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31076\" data-attachment-id=\"31076\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=31076\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dennis-1.png?fit=600%2C415\" data-orig-size=\"600,415\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dennis-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Western Mass Pioneers&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dennis-1.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dennis-1.png?fit=600%2C415\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dennis-1.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Photo credit: Western Mass Pioneers\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dennis-1.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dennis-1.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Western Mass Pioneers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Western Mass Pioneers didn&#8217;t need to look long or far to find their next head coach.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the club hired former assistant coach Dennis Gomes to take the helm of the Pioneers ahead of their 18th season.<\/p>\n<p>Gomes, a familiar face at Lusitano Stadium after both playing and coaching for the Ludlow-based side, succeeds Federico Molinari, who took the reins of Western Mass Pro Soccer (ASL) following the 2014 PDL season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to be the new Head Coach of the Western Mass Pioneers,&#8221; Gomes said in a club release. &#8220;My goal is to win, but also to work with the Western Mass communities at the youth level to develop local talent, and bring them to the Pioneers in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ludlow native played his youth soccer with Lusitano Football Club, which eventually became the Western United Pioneers. He played at the University of Vermont from 1995-98, but would often return during the summer to suit up for his hometown side. <\/p>\n<p>After his playing career concluded, he joined Molinari&#8217;s staff in 2011, and served as an assistant through 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDennis has been a part of this community for a long time now and his dedication to the development of programs and players goes without question,\u201d said Pioneers General Manager Greg Kolodziey in a club release.<\/p>\n<p>The Pioneers will kick off their 18th season in early-May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pioneers hired Dennis Gomes to serve as head coach for the 2015 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31076,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[91],"tags":[943,1291,892,1294],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Dennis-1.png?fit=600%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31074"}],"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=31074"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31080,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31074\/revisions\/31080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}