Coaching Staff

Gabriel Toro- Head Coach

Gabriel Toro returns for his third year as head coach of the CCRI men’s soccer program after guiding the Knights to a 6-9-1 season in 2010. He previously served as assistant coach of the program for two years under Victor Gaspar. Toro, a native of Colombia and a 1999 graduate of the University of Rhode Island (URI), is striving to renew the winning tradition of the CCRI men’s soccer program.

In addition to his coaching experience at CCRI, Toro has organized and coached clinics in Rhode Island and Massachusetts for boys and girls of all ages, focusing on technical weaknesses and enhancing players’ strengths to improve their confidence and technical skills. In 2001, he led the Tolman High School boys’ soccer team to the state final where they finished in second place.

Toro has extensive professional playing experience with the semi-pro Lusitana Portuguese Club in Cumberland and the Providence Soccer League. After graduating from URI with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, he played three seasons for the Rhode Island Stingrays. At URI, he was a member of the No. 3 ranked men’s team that garnered a record of 19-1-3 and won Atlantic-10 championship titles in 1995 and 1996. He was honored with the Bob Butler Sportsmanship Award in 1998.

 Neal Rei - Assistant Coach

Neal Rei returns to CCRI the men’s soccer team for his third year as assistant coach. He has 10 years of head coaching experience for various youth travel teams. His travel teams never failed to make the playoffs and many of his players went on to receive regional honors for soccer. In 2009, Rei was the YMCA Soccer Camp director in Lincoln, R.I. where he oversaw the organization’s summer soccer program, organizing drills and scrimmages and coaching players with skills ranging from beginner to advanced. From 2000-08, he served as head coach of the Cumberland Youth Soccer Association. He recently received his National Diploma and Goalkeeping Level I license from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).

Rei graduated cum laude from Rhode Island College with a bachelor’s degree in history. He went on to receive a master’s degree in political science from Suffolk University in May 2009. Rei is a resident of Cumberland, R.I.

Kevin Berthiaume - Assistant Coach

CCRI graduate Kevin Berthiaume begins his second season as assistant coach of the men’s soccer program. With more than 20 years of playing experience, he has traveled throughout the East coast playing for Midstate United Soccer Club and for the Lusitana Soccer Club along with Head Coach Gabe Toro. Berthiaume served as assistant coach for the Central High School boys’ varsity soccer team and as head coach of the school’s junior varsity team in 2005. Under his leadership, the junior varsity squad went undefeated.

Berthiaume graduated from CCRI with an associate degree in liberal arts and transferred to the University of Rhode Island where he earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and anthropology in 2006. He lives in North Providence, R.I.