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Jose Maria Aberasturi

Head Coach

josemaria.aberasturi@yu.edu

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Jose Maria Aberasturi was named the head coach of the Yeshiva University women's soccer team in July of 2022. Aberasturi has over 30 years of coaching experience.

In Aberasturi's first season at the helm, Daniella Bessler set a program single-match record with 36 saves in the season opener at New Jersey City University. Bessler went on to earn a spot on the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District team. Yeshiva closed out the year with a thrilling victory, 3-2, over King's College N.Y. Earlier in the season, Yeshiva battled Lehman College to a 1-1 tie. 

No stranger to soccer at Yeshiva University, Aberasturi was the primary assistant coach of the Yeshiva University men's soccer team from August of 2019 until June of 2021. In November of 2021, the YU men's soccer team advanced to the semifinal round of the Skyline Conference Championships for the first time in program history, after outlasting Farmingdale State College in penalty kicks during the first round of the league tournament. 

In the summer of 2021, Aberasturi served as an assistant coach for the Philippine women’s national team and helped the program qualify for the Women’s Asian Cup.

Aberasturi led the National University-Manila men’s soccer program as its head coach from 2016 until 2019. He was also the head coach of the Philippine National Under-19 team in 2017.

The Bacolod City native also had coaching stops at several other national teams in the Philippine Football Federation.

From 2000 until 2005, Aberasturi served as an athletic director at the Don Bosco Technology Center. He also led the Under-18 soccer team as its head coach during that span. Aberasturi also served as the head coach for several youth teams at Don Bosco from 1994 until 1998, before returning to the school as an athletic director in 2000.

Aberasturi began his collegiate coaching career as the head coach of Don Bosco College Seminary, his alma mater, from 1992 until 1994.

The Volley Cottage resident earned his bachelor’s degree in technical education from Don Bosco College Seminary in 1989. He graduated from the University of the Philippines Los Banos with a degree in agriculture in 1994. Aberasturi earned a diploma in exercise and sport science from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2013.

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