Joe Blasetti is in his first year as an assistant coach on Maryland's men's soccer staff after being hired in the summer of 2023/
Blasetti was hired in August of 2022 after serving as an assistant at Columbia last season. He was previously the assistant and goalkeeper coach at the College of Mount Saint Vincent since January of 2021. Blasetti helped coach Mount Saint Vincent to the 2021 Skyline Conference Championship. On the way to the title, the Dolphins posted a record of 14-2-2, 9-1-1 Skyline, winning the school’s first conference title in men’s soccer. The Mount defeated No. 1 seed Manhattanville, 2-0, in the championship game, rolling into the NCAA Tournament with nine consecutive wins.
Blasetti brings coaching experience from multiple NCAA levels, the semi-pro ranks, club and high school. He has served as the assistant for the Westchester Flames in USL 2, Iona College, NY Cosmos Academy and Rye Country Day School. At all of those stops, Blasetti specialized with goalkeepers, overseeing tactical and technical development, conducting daily training sessions, breaking down film and teaching the physical and mental skills to succeed.
Blasetti was a collegiate goalkeeper for Adelphi University in 2016. He went on to play semi-professionally for FC Bruchsal in Germany. Those experiences took him on to Westchester United in the UPSL and the aforementioned Westchester Flames. Blasetti holds a Bachelor of Science in recreation education from Lehman College.
