Coach Asim comes from a long soccer background. Asim grew up in northern NJ, and played travel soccer with the Allendale Americans for 10 years as a youth. During his time at the high school age, Asim was selected to participate in a program called “Bergen’s Best” where he spent a summer training under former U.S. Men’s National Team Coach, Bob Bradley. Asim also travelled abroad with the East-West Soccer Ambassadors when he was 14 years old, where he trained for a week in the Netherlands, and then participated in the Italy Cup and the Austria Cup as a starting center-back.
Asim played his high school years at Don Bosco Prep. H.S. and then went on to Villanova University where he played for the Men’s team during their Spring and Summer competitions against other local universities.