Michael J. Solender

Service and development of young men are core values for Niners new head football coach, Biff Poggi
By Michael J. Solender
Photos by Kat Lawrence
“We’re going to put out kids who are doing things that truly matter.”
Francis Xavier “Biff” Poggi’s journey to the role of head football coach of the Charlotte 49ers is instructive for life’s late bloomers.
By the time he was 17, Poggi had already cycled through eight different schools in his home of Baltimore, Maryland. He was out of school complet...

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