A member of the Milwaukee Wave of the National Professional Soccer League, Carbonara has won five indoor soccer championships, four in the NPSL and one in the old Major Indoor Soccer League. The 1984 graduate of Vineland says that this year's drive for a championship hits close to home. After Saturday's Game 2 in Milwaukee, the series will shift to Philadelphia on May 11. If a fourth game is needed, it will be May 12 in Philadelphia. Game 5, if needed, will be in Milwaukee.
Carbonara goes home in the summers to operate soccer camps throughout the South Jersey area.
I've been e-mailing a lot of our campers and letting them know that we will be playing Philadelphia. Milwaukee, the defending champion, also won the league crown in 1998. Carbonara also won NPSL titles with Cleveland in 1994 and 1996, and captured an MISL title in 1991 with San Diego. This is my ninth overall championship series. He totaled 151 goals at Vineland, a record that was broken by Ocean City's Chad Severs, who finished with 159.