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Coaching Staff
Gabriel
Toro - Head Coach - 1st year
The Community College of Rhode Island has promoted assistant men’s
soccer coach Gabriel Toro to the head coaching role for the start of the
2009 season. Toro replaces 28-year veteran Victor Gaspar in the
leadership position after serving as CCRI’s assistant coach for two
years.
Toro, a native of Colombia and a 1999 graduate of the University of
Rhode Island (URI), will be looked upon to turn around the college’s
soccer program and renew its winning tradition.
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.
Toro is an assistant program supervisor at Key Program Inc. in Providence. He is a resident of Pawtucket.
Neal Rei - Assistant Coach
Neal Rei comes to CCRI the men’s soccer team’s new assistant coach
with nine years of head coaching experience for various youth travel
teams. In 2009, he 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.
Rei graduated cum laude from Rhode Island College with a bachelor’s degree in history. He went on to receive a master’s degree from Suffolk University in May 2009, graduating with a 3.825 GPA. At Suffolk, he also was a member of Phi Sigma Alpha, a political science honor society.
Rei is a resident of Cumberland.
