Charlie Cremens’ Bio
AC Arlington U -12, Head Coach

Charlie Cremens is Assistant Director of Admissions and Men’s Head Soccer Coach at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology (BFIT), which is a small college located in Boston’s South End. Charlie also works as a coach with both the AC Arlington and FC New England Eagles MAPLE organizations.

The 2009 season will mark Coach Cremens’ third year as head coach of BFIT. Cremens’ team finished 8 – 9 in 2008, two wins away from earning a bid to the NJCAA Division III playoffs. Five players from BFIT’s 2008 freshman class were nominated for Region XXI honors: Joao Martins (First Team), Placido Teixera (First Team), Manny Amingwa (Second Team), Carlos Hernandez (Honorable Mention) and Luis Veiga (Honorable Mention). Throughout the 2009 spring season, all the BFIT All-Star players will help coach AC Arlington teams.

In 2008, Coach Cremens served as assistant coach for the U-18 New England Eagles FC, learning under Kevin Anderson, head coach at Columbia University. During the 2009 Massachusetts State Tournament, Cremens will be head coach of the U-19 New England Eagles FC. (Note that the U-19 MAPLE division doesn’t play a spring season and only competes in the State Tournament).

In 2006, Charlie founded and managed SPFC, a Bay State Soccer League club, which finished 12-0-5 and won the Division III league title. This successful campaign motivated him to become head soccer coach at BFIT during the program’s first intercollegiate season.

As a college freshman in 1999, Charlie played wing back and midfield for Drew University and that season his team advanced to the Division III national tournament. After losing in the first round of the Nationals, a reoccurring shoulder injury since seventh grade required a second surgery, which ultimately ended his brief college career. As a member of the FC Greater Boston Eagles while growing up in Massachusetts, the team won five consecutive MAPLE State Championships, as well as a Regional title in 1996.