Pat Ercoli is a retired Canadian

Canada

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 soccer player who currently works as General Manager of Rochester Rhinos.

Career

Ercoli played club football for the Rochester Lancers

Rochester Lancers

The Rochester Lancers were a soccer team based in Rochester, New York that played in the American Soccer League from 1967 until 1969 and the North American Soccer League from 1970 to 1980 at Aquinas Stadium...

 and the Jacksonville Tea Men

Jacksonville Tea Men

The Jacksonville Tea Men were an American soccer team based in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. Overall, the Tea Men played a total of four seasons in Jacksonville, first in the major league-level North American Soccer League from 1980–1982, then in the lower level American Soccer League and United...

 in the North American Soccer League

North American Soccer League

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. He played for the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League

Major Soccer League

The Major Indoor Soccer League, known in its final two seasons as the Major Soccer League, was an indoor soccer league in the USA from 1978 to 1992. After the folding of the North American Soccer League in 1984, the MISL was the Division I soccer league for the United States...

 from 1985 to 1986.

International career

Ercoli earned one cap for the national team

Canada men's national soccer team

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 in 1980.

Coaching career

After retiring as a player, Ercoli coached the Rochester Rhinos from 1996 to 2003. During this tenure as coach, he quickly turned the A-League team into a juggernaut in the minor league sports industry. The club was a league-leader in attendance from 1996–2004 and was named one of the Top Five Minor League Sports Franchises by Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal. Their success at the gate was also matched by the teams’ three league titles (1998, 2000 and 2001) and the 1999 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup title, in which they defeated three MLS teams en route to the historic championship. In December, 2004, Ercoli was dismissed as the team's head coach. On 29 October 2009 he returned to Rochester Rhinos and was appointed as the General Manager. Since taking over as General Manager in 2009, Ercoli was appointed the team's president in charge of all day-to-day activities.

Ercoli was inducted into the USL Hall of Fame in 2002.