Bastidas joined the USL staff as an intern with the Super Y-League in September of 2004.  He returned to the USL to coordinate the Super Y-League's Olympic Development Program.  He has played two seasons with the USL Second Division Pittsburgh Riverhounds, amassing four goals and four assists and appearing in 18 of the 'Hounds 20 games in 2005.

 

Before joining the Riverhounds, Bastidas played for Wake Forest University (2000-03).  In his junior season with the Demon Deacons, Bastidas scored four goals and assisted in five on a team that finished 15-2-4.  Of Ecuadorian descent and a native of Catasauqua, PA Bastidas enjoys supporting the Philadelphia Eagles.