Al Albert (soccer)

Al Albert is an American college soccer coach, born on February 24, 1949, who is best known for leading the men's soccer program of the College of William and Mary, the Tribe, in Williamsburg, Virginia. He studied sociology at William and Mary, where he played varsity lacrosse and soccer, and in 1971 he accepted the post of full-time coach of both the men's lacrosse and men's soccer teams, coaching soccer alone from 1977. Over 33 seasons as head coach, until he retired from coaching in January 2004, his teams won 401 games, lost 187 and drew 64, which made him the eighth coach in NCAA Division I history to reach 400 wins and the third to earn all of them at one school. Away from the touchline he coached the United States men's open team at the 1981 and 1985 Maccabiah Games, served in 2006 as the 60th president of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, received that body's Honor Award in 2011, wrote a history of the William and Mary program, and founded the Soccer Community Partnership in Williamsburg.