ACA's coaching team includes: Quimars Hedayatian - Head Coach and Club Manager 617-669-5585 | Email
Qiumars Hedayatian (known as "Coach Q" to his players and coaches) started AC Arlington because of his passion for soccer and because he wanted to build a true development club that is focused on soccer first, and making money last. Coach Q was born in Iran and lived in Germany most of his life until moving to the Boston area over 10 years ago. He also has won acclaim as an expert Table Tennis Player. Coach Q grew up playing soccer and has affiliations with many nationally licensed and well-known coaches. He expects quality, dedication, and consistency in his coaching staff. Lorenzo T. Dibenedetto - U14 CoachLorenzo T. Dibenedetto is currently the head coach at the division one level Madison Park High School in Boston. His team was the winner of the city north division and qualified for the state tournament for 5 years in a row. He was voted coach of the year in 1995-1999. He has been the men’s soccer assistant coach at Northeastern University, University of Hartford, and Green Mountain College.
From the Boston Globe:
"...In his day, Dibenedetto was also a standout soccer player for East Boston. The former Jet finished his career as an All-New Englander as well as a city league all-star and enrolled in Middlebury College in Vermont where he was a four year starter.
"His passion for soccer eventually took him overseas where he played for Barbarino Al Mugullo, an Italian club team, while he worked on his Master’s degree in Italian Literature at the University of Florence in 1982..."
Matias Mejia - U14 CoachMatias Mejia's career as a professional soccer player spanned 14 years, from 1989 to 2003, including playing with Atlético Nacional, Envigado Fútbol Club, and Deportes Tolima. He also represented his native country on the Colombian National Team at the 1992 Olympic games in Barcelona where the Colombia National team went up against the Gold Medal-winning Spain National Team. During his career he participated in various tournaments of Copa Libertadores de América.
Mejia is dedicated to soccer, and with this dedication came the decision to open his own soccer school, where he can continuously develop players. He is the proud owner of Matias Soccer School, located in East Boston, where he fosters and instills the development of young aspiring, passionate soccer players. Mejia has built a reputation for himself in the soccer community. He is often found on the sidelines, coaching from the crack of dawn to the last dim of light. His community and the surrounding communities have come to respect and seek his advice on developing their children's soccer skills, whether it be technical, tactical, or cognitive.
Charlie Cremens - U12 CoachCharlie 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.
Cremens’ BFIT 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.
In 2008, Cremens also served as assistant coach for the U18 New England Eagles FC, learning under Kevin Anderson, head coach at Columbia University. During the 2009 Massachusetts State Tournament, Cremens was head coach of the U19 New England Eagles FC.
In 2006, Cremens 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, Cremens 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.
Paul Clarke - U11 CoachPaul Clarke learnt his soccer in the North East of England, where, to paraphrase Bill Shankly, “Soccer isn’t a matter of life or death; it’s much more important than that.” To the great disappointment of his family, which had produced a few professional players, Clarke ended up playing his soccer at Oxford University. (He was aided in this decision by being completely marked out of a trial game by future England player Steve Whitworth.)
Clarke loves the game and firmly believes in encouraging the players to express their creativity, and to make and learn from their own mistakes, all within the context of a team structure. Results are secondary to learning to play the game the right, creative way. Fortunately, results have tended to accompany this philosophy -- Clarke's 2010/2011 U10 team won the New England Premiership's U10 Division.
Julio Veliz - U11 Assistant CoachJulio Veliz grew up in Guatemala City, Guatemala where he had constant involvement in physical fitness. He played soccer in Guatemala for five years as part of a school league. He was also a fitness instructor and part of a gymnastic team in his adolescent years. In 1978, after coming to the United States, he joined Wing Chun Kung Fu Academy, and eventually became a private instructor for international students. When his children became involved in track, he was an assistant coach of the Nelson Mandela track team in Cambridge where they won many city and regional competitions. He also coached his children in running long distance road races, like the Falmouth and Hyannis marathons. He was also involved in their martial arts training.
Veliz has been part of the Somerville Youth Soccer League for five years, since his grandson joined the league. He believes that running and stretching are the best warm-ups to prevent injuries in any sport. He is a great enthusiast of soccer and believes that soccer is very beneficial to a child's physical fitness as well as mental focus.
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