Daniel Clitnovici (born 8 July 1982) is an Australian/American soccer coach and former professional soccer player. Clitnovici currently is the head coach of

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Men's Soccer program. and the Director of Coaching for ECNL club FC Bucks. He was the former head coach of

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, the

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Women and the assistant coach of the

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of the

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; the 2010 W-League champions, 2011

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(WPS) Champions, the 2012

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Champions, and the 2013 and 2016

season champions.

Coaching career

Clitnovici was the previous head coach of

and

both of which played in the

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. He was named

Coach of the year in 2014 after leading w-league expansion side Colorado Pride to a Western Conference Championship final. While at Colorado Pride Clitnovici established a defense that did not concede a single goal on its home field and produced a fast-flowing attacking style of play that entertained W-League fans league wide. Clitnovici's direction and guidance to players at the Pride were very influential, as several of his players from his 2014 squad have gone on to play professionally in the US and abroad. In 2012 in addition to coaching the Colorado Rapids Women, Daniel Clitnovici was the Head Coach of the Colorado Rapids U20 Ladies team which went on to win a

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Under 20 National Championship hosted at

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in Bradenton, Florida. The Colorado Rapids defeated DC United 1–0. Clitnovici previously managed and directed the

Youth Academy in the role of Academy Executive Director of Coaching. Clitnovici was hired by the Ohio State Women's Soccer program in 2016 as an Assistant Head Coach In February 2017 it was announced by Villanova University Wildcats that Clitnovici would be joining their Women's Soccer program. His coaching education includes: US Soccer Federation "A" License, UEFA "A" License, NSCAA Advanced National License, NSCAA Advanced National GK License, NSCAA Director of Coaching License

Playing career

As a player Daniel Clitnovici played with Romanian

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Champions

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Apollon Smyrni F.C. Apollon Smyrnis Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Απόλλων Σμύρνης), or in its full name Gymnasticos Syllogos Apollon Smyrnis ( el, links=no, Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Απόλλων Σμύρνης, ''Gymnastics Club Apollon o ...

in Greece,

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in Australia, as well as several other clubs in both England, Spain and Australia

References

External links

Villanova Soccer Profile

Western New York Flash coach profile

* * 1982 births Living people Western New York Flash non-playing staff FC U Craiova 1948 players Association football midfielders Australian soccer players Australian expatriate soccer players Expatriate footballers in Romania Australian soccer coaches Australian expatriate sportspeople in England {{Australia-footy-midfielder-stub