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Ziggy Korytoski

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Ziggy Korytoski

Jeffrey "Ziggy" Korytosk begins his second season as an assistant coach with San Diego State's men's soccer team.

Prior to his arrival on Montezuma Road, Korytoski was the academy director and director of coaching for CS United’s U9-U14 teams in Plymouth, Mass. In that post, he also served as a scout for US Soccer and the Seattle Sounders.

From 2013-14, Korytoski served as the head coach of Deportivo Coatepeque in Coatepeque, Guatemala. Serving at the team’s helm in Guatemala’s top league, he is the only American head coach in the team’s history.

Before joining Deportivo Coatepeque, he was the head coach of Antigua GFC in Antigua, Guatemala, a position he held on and off for two-and-a-half years, assisting in the program’s promotion to Guatemala’s Primera Division. Korytoski’s other international coaching experience includes a one-year turn as the head coach and technical director of the Northern Mariana Islands’ men’s and women’s national teams.

Between periods with Antigua GFC, for the 2012 season, Korytoski guided the University of Hawai’i at Hilo’s men’s soccer program to a 5-1-1 in the team’s final seven matches of the season.

For two seasons from 2008 to 2010, Korytoski was an assistant coach for Cal Poly’s men’s soccer team, in charge of recruiting, team operations and game day management. While serving on the Mustangs’ coaching staff, the team beat UCLA in the 2008 NCAA Tournament, the program’s only NCAA Tournament win to date. Prior to working with the Mustangs, he served on Wright State’s men’s soccer staff for three seasons from 2005-08, was an assistant at St. Leo in 2004 and served on Penn State’s men’s soccer coaching staff in 2001, coaching the school’s women’s club team to a national championship.

A Springfield, Mass., native, Korytoski played collegiately at Santa Rosa Junior College and UNC Wilmington. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Saint Leo in 2007. Korytoski possesses UEFA and USSF ‘A’ Licenses, a NSCAA Premier Diploma and a KNVB Coaching Certificate. Korytoski married the former Mayumi Ando in 2008 and they have two children, Kaisei and Mariana.