DiOrio grew up in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area and graduated from South Fayette Township High School in 1939.
During high school, he was best known as an outstanding basketball player, reputedly scoring fifty points in one game.
[2] While making a living as a factory worker, DiOrio devoted his spare time to his passion, playing soccer.
While soccer remained at the center of his life, including leading him to his wife whom he met through a team sponsored by her father's beer garden, Jack's Supper Club, he earned a living as a factory worker in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.
DiOrio was inducted, along with the rest of the 1950 U.S. World Cup team, into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1976.