It was a pitch he couldn’t reject.

Longtime Hofstra men’s soccer coach Richard Nuttall is retiring from his post after what will be 37 seasons of success with the Pride at the end of this fall.

Nevertheless, it was fate that put Nuttall in a position to win eight Colonial Athletic Association conference championships — four of which came consecutively from 2021-24 — in the first place.

“I was playing for the Glen Cove soccer club … and I heard of this part-time job with very little resources,” Nuttall, originally of Yorkshire, England, told The Post of his early days on Long Island in the late 1980s.

Fortunately for the university, Glen Cove had been comprised of “80 percent Hofstra” players — including Nuttall’s friend, Jim Kilmeade, who now operates American Soccer Club out of the Na

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