Etan Mabourakh – an experienced goalkeeping coach with stints at Boston City FC, Boston Street Soccer, and Downtown United Soccer Club – enters his second season on the Harvard University men’s soccer coaching staff as the team’s assistant coach – goalkeepers in 2024-25.

The Crimson sustained its rise up the Ivy League standings during the 2023 season, finishing in second place in the conference – its highest finish since 2015 – after coming in third in 2022 and fourth in 2021. Harvard qualified for the inaugural Ivy League Tournament behind its second-place finish. Alessandro Arlotti ’25 earned Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year honors while the Crimson totaled five All-Ivy honorees and six Academic All-District selections.

Alongside his time with Boston City FC in the EPSL from 2021-22, Mabourakh worked with Downtown United Soccer Club in New York from 2019-20, leading training sessions with the club’s goalkeepers, offering private coaching sessions, and acting as a player-coach on the club’s U23 team, winning a league championship with the side.

He has trained private goalkeeping clients at the advanced high school, Division I collegiate, and professional levels.

Mabourakh’s playing background spans NCAA Division I, MLS Reserve, the UPSL, and EPSL. Competing with the FSA Foxes Pro in the UPSL, he tallied nine clean sheets in 12 appearances in 2019 while notching six clean sheets in 10 games with the Cedar Stars of the New York Cosmopolitan League in 2019. He played with the DC United MLS Reserve Squad in 2018, totaling six shutouts in 14 appearances.

At the collegiate level, Mabourakh played goalkeeper at the University of Pennsylvania from 2015-18 prior to his graduation in 2019. He started 15 games for the Quakers during the 2016 season.