Valeriano joined Chad Duernberger’s staff in Spring 2023.
The Broncs won their sixth MAAC Championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2023. Along the way, the Broncs enjoyed the fourth-largest improvement in the country in wins, going from three wins in 2022 to 12 victories in 2023. The team also enjoyed the sixth-greatest improvement in winning percentage in the country (+.347).
A program-record eight Broncs earned All-MAAC honors in 2023, with Adel Al Masude, Saad Chaouki, Babacar Diene and Momo Diop being selected to the First Team. Sebastian Rojek took Second Team and Martin Chladek, Jack McGeechan and Ethan Shaw received Third Team recognition. Chaouki was also named MAAC Rookie of the Year and took national All-Freshman Second Team recognition from both Top Drawer Soccer and College Soccer News. Diene and Diop were honored on the All-Region Third Team. The Broncs enjoyed a pair of long unbeaten streaks, with an eight-game unbeaten streak early in the year and a seven-match winning streak with the first four closing out the regular season and the last three coming in the MAAC Championship run.
Rider returned to the MAAC Championship Game in 2024, falling in the final. The Broncs also earned their first share of a MAAC Regular Season Championship since their inaugural season in the league (1997). In doing so, Head Coach Chad Duernberger was named MAAC Coach of the Year, becoming Rider's first men's soccer conference Coach of the Year since Russ Fager earned the honor in the East Coast Conference in 1987. The Broncs' coaching staff also mentored Momo Diop and Adam Salama to MAAC Golden Boot and Golden Glove honors, signifying the league's top offensive player and goalkeeper, respectively. The team again put eight players on the All-Conference Teams, with Diop, Salama and Bryan Akongo on the First Team, Adel Al-Masude, Theo Da Silva, Jack McGeechan and Martin Chladek on Second Team and Andrew Erickson on the Third Team. Diop and Salama were also recognized on the All-ECAC Team, while Chladek and Luke Kirilenko were recognized as CSC Academic All-Disctrict Team honorees. Rider's .725 winning percentage (14-5-1 record) on the year was the best mark by a Rider team since the 1992 also went 14-5-1.
Valeriano gained a variety of coaching experience after graduating from California University of Pennsylvania in 2020. He’s served as Director of Goalkeeping for Real JFC since August 2020, handling responsibility for all goalkeepers, both boys and girls, who compete in MLS NXT, Girls Academy and EDP Leagues. He’s organized, planned and executed training sessions and oversaw film review. He served a year each as Goalkeeper Coach at Camden County Community College and Stockton University, while also gaining experience as an individual and group trainer for Fearless Futbol and owner/founder of Gus’s Goalkeeping.
Valeriano also brings 20 years of goalkeeping experience, including over a year training with both the Philadelphia Union and Philadelphia Union 2. He also played for the Ocean City Nor’easters and Lehigh Valley United of USL 2 during the Summers of 2017-19, while competing for California University of PA from 2016-20. Prior to his collegiate playing days, he competed with the South Jersey Elite Barons, who ranked in the Top 25 in the country. Valeriano graduated with a degree in criminal justice, specializing in Homeland and International Security. He holds a Goalkeeper Level 1 Diploma and a USSF F License.
