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I like to believe what goes around comes around and that good things happen to good people.

With that in mind, I wasn’t surprised — and was also very happy — to see Mauro Biello land on his feet after getting fired as head coach of the Impact after the team missed the Major League Soccer playoffs last season.

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Biello has a new job as an assistant coach to John Herdman with the Canadian men’s team and is also in charge of the EXCEL U-23 program, leading our country’s youth teams. Biello is a good fit for those young players to look up to and learn from. He was always a class act as a player and a coach with the Impact.

Biello grew up in Montreal chasing a soccer ball from age 5 on some patchy pitches in N.D.G. before playing for Dawson College and Concordia University and then embarking on a 19-year pro career that included 16 seasons with the Impact. He also played for Canada at the 1989 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Scotland and made his debut with the men’s national team at 23, representing his country through two cycles of FIFA World Cup qualifiers. No player bled the Impact colours more than Biello, who retired in 2009 as the club’s all-time points leader and saw his No. 20 jersey retired.