Coach Director Santo Rivas is an "A" licensed coach and is a member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.   Prior to joing NOSA, Santo was the Director of Coaching for FC Barcelona USA in Los Angeles, during which several of his teams to Barcelona for training and competition.  Santo is the former head coach at California State University, Los Angeles.  He has extensive youth soccer experience on the premier level and has also coached on the high school level.  Santo also has a degree in History from California State University-Los Angeles where he played collegiately for Leonardo Cuellar, former World Cup Player for Mexico.  He is fluent in Spanish and Italian.