The Bastidas name has been synonymous with soccer in the Lehigh Valley and their roots just spread even wider with the latest news of Adam Bastidas being recently named the new head coach of Northampton's boys' soccer program.

Bastidas takes over the program after Craig Carvin and his staff resigned last October in the fallout of alleged Ebola taunts by Northampton players against a Nazareth player during their East Penn Conference season finale.

After beating Parkland in the final third of their season, the Kids went on to lose four straight before knocking off the Blue Eagles 2-1 in the final game of their season. With Bastidas in charge now, the Kids can look forward to the future after a difficult conclusion to their 2014 fall.

"I've been around soccer my whole life and my passion for the sport is very strong," said Bastidas. "I bring a lot of knowledge and experience from a playing standpoint, but also more experience coaching wise than people would think."

Bastidas, 23, is now the youngest head coach in the league, and maybe in the entire district, but it doesn't seem to faze him. He played his collegiate soccer at Division-I James Madison, where he was a three-year starter, a senior team captain, a three-time recipient of the JMU Male Scholar Athlete, and four-time All-CAA Academic team.

Bastides played in the Olympic Develop Program throughout high school, and he currently coaches a U-12 ODP team.

In 2014, he was the assistant girls varsity coach at his alma mater, Catasauqua, where his father, Trajano, has been the long-time head coach of the program.

Adam is the latest member of the family to grab a head coaching job in the Lehigh Valley, as his older brother, Chris, completed his first season as head coach of the Whitehall boys last season.

The two of them will now square off against each other twice a season, as Whitehall and Northampton are both in the EPC's Skyline Division.

"It's going to be a lot of fun going up against him," Adam said of coaching against his brother Chris. "I've always coached against him in club practices, but now it's going to be for meaningful games. I know Whitehall and Northampton have always had a good rivalry, so this should make things even better."