Marshall University Athletics
Men's Soccer
- Title:
- Graduate Assistant, 2nd season
- Phone:
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Anthony, who joined the men’s soccer team before the 2020-21 season, helped take the Herd through its historic season with its second-consecutive Conference USA Championship, and culminating in the program’s first ever NCAA Championship victory. He was a part of the United Soccer Coaches 2020 National Coaching Staff of the Year.
In 2021, Marshall won double-digit matches for the third-straight year, program’s longest streak since 1995-98, with 11 more wins. The Herd was ranked in the top 25 throughout the season and earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Marshall’s defense set two more team records with seven-straight clean sheets and a span of 760 minutes and 37 seconds without conceding a goal. From 2019 through 2021, the Herd’s defense has earned 28 shutouts, the most in a three-year span in team history.
Anthony is a 4-and-a-half-year Army Veteran and graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, where he was a cadet for four years and a distinguished military graduate.
Anthony was selected as one of the top 15 male coaches in the United States under the age of 30 years old in 2018 by the United Soccer Coaches Organization. He previously served as an officer in the United States Military for four years serving as an Infantry Health Care Administrator for the 25th Infantry Division and led the U.S. Army Men's National Team to a National Championship (it's first in over five years), served as a coaching intern for FC Dallas's MLS academy, Athletic Club Bilbao First Team, and Atlético de Madrid. Anthony completed a coaching visit to the Seattle Sounders of the MLS in their championship year of 2019 and served as a youth coach for DC United of the MLS. He also served as an assistant coach of the Men’s Soccer Team at Hawaii Pacific University in 2019.
As a player, at just 16 years old, he was the youngest ever at the time to represent the Dominican Republic Senior Men's national team. Shortly after that, Anthony was selected to play and train at the Barcelona Academy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He played in tournaments representing the United States in The Netherlands, England, and Ecuador.
In Europe and at the professional level, Anthony worked for Legia Warszawa as a first team analyst and academy analyst and academy assistant coach. He assisted the first team in analyzing opposition for the Polish Cup and the Polish First Division, the Ekstraklasa. Legia Warszawa went on to win the Polish First Division the season he served as analyst and qualify for Champions League Qualification play. Anthony also primarily served as the U-17 analyst, conducting statistics based on play, analyzing game phases throughout the play, and post-match analysis. He has also conducted opposition analysis for the U.S. Army Men's National Soccer team. Anthony was an assistant coach for the U-14's academy team, winning the Estima Cup in 2019 and coming in second place in the Novesia Cup in Dusseldorf, Germany, beating four Bundesliga academies, to eventually make it to the championship match.
Anthony currently holds a Northern Ireland FA “C” license and is currently a UEFA B1 Candidate and pursuing a master’s degree in health care administration.
