Men’s Soccer Coaching Staff
Jose “Tony” González — Head Coach
Jose “Tony” González enters his eighth year as coach of the South Suburban College Men’s Soccer Team. During his tenure at the college, the SSC Men’s Team has posted a 93-26-6 record, winning 74 percent of games played. Coach González has extensive playing and coaching experience.
He played collegiate soccer for the UIC Flames and was named Academic All-Conference in 1995 while earning Soccer Student Athlete of the Year in 1997. In 2002, he also served as the top assistant at UIC. González has trained and coached players of all ages and levels. In the summer of 2003, he earned the USSF National “B” license.
Coach González is a 1997 graduate from University of Illinois at Chicago and has a Bachelors of Art in the Teaching of Spanish.

Aaron Zambrano — Assistant Coach
Coach Aaron Zambrano joined the Bulldogs coaching staff in 2015. The 2024 season marked his ninth year at South Suburban College. He briefly stepped away in 2017 to work with Chicago Fire FC and returned to the SSC coaching staff in 2018. He also attended and played soccer for South Suburban College in 2012-13 where he earned an Associate Degree in Fine Arts. In 2012, he was a part of the team that was ranked as high as 7th in the nation.
During his time at SSC, Coach Zambrano helped the Bulldogs to a 87-65-8 (W-L-T) record, including four consecutive NJCAA DII Region IV Final appearances from 2021-24, one NJCAA Region IV championship in 2022 (the first in SSC history for women’s soccer), two NJCAA DII National Tournament appearances in 2021-22, and an incredible 59-16-7 (W-L-T) record from 2020-2024. Coach Zambrano was also part of the staff to earn the United Soccer Coaches Junior College Women’s DII Regional Staff of the Year award in 2021 and 2022.
Aside from SSC, Coach Zambrano was the girls’ soccer varsity assistant at Thornwood High School in 2015, and the head JV girls’ coach and varsity assistant coach at Marian Catholic from 2019-22. In 2023, he took over the T.F. North/South (T.F. United) girls’ varsity soccer program where he won the South Suburban Conference Coach of the Year in honors in 2023, and Sportsmanship Team of the Year in 2023 and 2024 from the South Suburban Conference and Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Association.
Coach Zambrano currently works at Thornton Township High School assisting ESL/ELL students and resides in Harvey, IL.
Nolberto Damian — Assistant Coach
Biography coming soon.
Rogelio Vargas — Assistant Coach
Biography coming soon.
Alejandro Hernandez — Assistant Coach
Biography coming soon.