Bill Sampiao, President of New England Futsal is pleased to announce that Joe Franchino joins New England Futsal's Board of Directors as Player Representative.  In addition, Joe will play an active role in the training and coaching of futsal at all New England Futsal Academies in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.  "This is not only a top quality proven professional soccer player that endorses and embraces futsal,  this is a top quality person and we are over joyed to have him a board helping us in the proper training and coaching methodology at our futsal academies", says Coach Bill.

Born in Fontana California, Joe's illustrious soccer career started at Damien High School in La Verne, California, where he was coached by Al Mistri. In his sophomore year, his high school soccer team reached the CIF finals. Franchino went on to play at Cal State-Fullerton in 1994 and 1995, and was named to Soccer America's All-Freshman team. After his sophomore year, Franchino transferred to the University of Washington, where he played in 1996 and 1997.

As a professional, Joe was selected 30th overall in the 1998 MLS College Draft by the Los Angeles Galaxy. After appearing in 16 games and recording 4 assists as a rookie, Franchino became a consistent starter for the Galaxy in 1999. He played in 25 games in 1999, 16 of them starts, and recorded 3 assists. In the middle of the 2000 season, however, the Galaxy were forced by the league to give Franchino to the New England Revolution. Joe became an important part of the Revolution's lineup. He started all 22 games he appeared in for New England in 2000, and played a regular starting role for the next six years, during which he was team captain.

In 2007, he made only three brief substitute appearances before suffering an ankle injury and missed the rest of the season.

In 2008, Franchino was acquired from the New England Revolution in exchange for a second-round pick in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft, returning to the LA Galaxy, playing along side David Beckham before retiring at the end of the 2009 season.