Speaker 1: How are you, my friend?
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 1: You're indoors this time?
Speaker 2: Where are I'm indoor? I was outdoors and it was
Speaker 2: it was too high.
Speaker 3: So so was the sun directly shining upon the greg. Yes,
Speaker 3: and so discretion being the better part of valor. You
Speaker 3: decided to come in and hang out with us this morning, and.
Speaker 2: We get a little bit air conditioning for sure.
Speaker 3: As always we we appreciate that kind of stuff when
Speaker 3: you can take time out of your hyper busy schedule
Speaker 3: to come and hang out with us, whether it's doing
Speaker 3: stuff with Major League Soccer and and making sure that
Speaker 3: everyone's on the same page off the field when it
Speaker 3: comes to their teammates and everything. I want to do
Speaker 3: a couple of things because I kept you, I kept
Speaker 3: your notes from last time, and I want I want
Speaker 3: to get into this, but I want to kind of
Speaker 3: I want to hold my breath for a second on that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Since you spent some time with the national team, I
Speaker 3: want to go there. I want to talk about Eminent
Speaker 3: Land United. So h new coach the national team in Mercia, Pochettino. Uh.
Speaker 3: It appears that two hedge fund dudes helped out to
Speaker 3: make sure that they could pay what Pochettino was looking for.
Speaker 3: What do you think about Pochettino now being a part
Speaker 3: of things with the US Soccer?
Speaker 2: I like it. It's another I mean it's the biggest
Speaker 2: higher since Klinsman, right, so.
Speaker 1: A lot look at it be bigger than that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I mean, Uh, you know, you're looking
Speaker 2: at a coach who has maybe not had as much success,
Speaker 2: but somebody who is who is you know, very what's
Speaker 2: what's the right word for it, somebody who has I
Speaker 2: guess you could say a lot of potential on the rise,
Speaker 2: somebody who has a say, somebody who I feel like
Speaker 2: is really going to put their foot down on a
Speaker 2: lot of different things. And so I think that in
Speaker 2: changing the mindset, and what all these players keep saying
Speaker 2: is we need somebody to come in and change the mindset.
Speaker 2: Need somebody to come in and change the mindset. Need
Speaker 2: somebody to come in and change the mindset. This is
Speaker 2: what better person could you get? An Argentinian? Right? All
Speaker 2: the success I had with in my careers was always
Speaker 2: with Argentinian coaches. And they don't play no games. So
Speaker 2: we'll see, uh, we'll see, uh, we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: They don't play no games. That's the direct quote.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, they're gonna, they're gonna let you know
Speaker 3: what they think. They're gonna let you know what their
Speaker 3: expectations are. They're going to sit there and it's like,
Speaker 3: all right, you went. You might have been with me
Speaker 3: or someone you know who is of Argentinian descent. Uh
Speaker 3: in a in a team situation, this is a national
Speaker 3: team situation. Capital in Capital T. We ain't messing around here.
Speaker 3: That's the vibe that I'm getting from you.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, don't argue with an Argentina. I'll just say
Speaker 2: that my coach, one of my my coach in t
Speaker 2: one I always put it. He said, look, in Argentina
Speaker 2: we had Diego Maridona. Uh huh, you know see, thank god,
Speaker 2: that's those those are the three Argentinians that you need
Speaker 2: to Then you need to pay attention to it.
Speaker 1: And not in that order I imagine though, right.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, not that wonder Yeah. Yeah, probably in
Speaker 2: the order that I just gave it.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I mean that's that. That is not a surprise.
Speaker 3: And the reason that I asked you first about men's
Speaker 3: national team goes to our notes from last time and
Speaker 3: and like I said, I wrote it down from two
Speaker 3: weeks ago, and it has to do with a couple
Speaker 3: of things that you said, quote quoting Greg and the US.
Speaker 1: We are too nice.
Speaker 3: We are too nice nationally as as Americans, and possibly
Speaker 3: representing ourselves out on the field as a US national
Speaker 3: team or a US representative. So having an Argentinian as
Speaker 3: a coach, I would posit the idea that it might
Speaker 3: whist that being too nice too not necessarily needing to
Speaker 3: be too nice. At least I would think that that
Speaker 3: would be the path that we're going down here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he'll for sure change the mindset of
Speaker 2: a lot of these guys. You know, it's you have
Speaker 2: the good old saying in Spanish you gotta play with
Speaker 2: the with the knife between the teeth. That's what they say.
Speaker 2: That's that's definitely a saying that they kind of live by.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that's something that he will implement.
Speaker 3: Can you translate that effectively without getting us into trouble?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Knife, knife between the teeth? Yeah, yeah, I just
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna translate it. Uh. I Remember I just
Speaker 2: had a couple of coaches whenever I played in Mexico
Speaker 2: that you would just look over at the bench and
Speaker 2: they would just be like this, and you just kind
Speaker 2: of shake your head and be like, Okay, I know
Speaker 2: what to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how to be I gotta dial it up all
Speaker 1: of a sudden. Yeah uh.
Speaker 3: And that and that got into note number two and
Speaker 3: three from last time that you were here.
Speaker 1: Actually, since I'm left handed, I guess I should do that.
Speaker 3: The world of the ethical dilemma and being malicious without malice.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's one.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You uh, like, hey, you you wrote it that,
Speaker 3: you said you talked about it, and it was toward
Speaker 3: the end of a segment, and I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 3: better write this down for next time.
Speaker 1: So yeah, uh.
Speaker 3: The idea of being malicious without malice and the idea
Speaker 3: of the ethical dilemma when it comes to the the
Speaker 3: ethical dilemma and having these kinds of discussions with your mentees,
Speaker 3: I guess at the surface level, to start things off,
Speaker 3: do they understand the idea of having an ethical dilemma
Speaker 3: and trying to get pasted it out on the field.
Speaker 2: I'll give a great example this This is this is
Speaker 2: using my own son, right. Great example there was I
Speaker 2: remember there was a play probably about two years ago,
Speaker 2: maybe two years ago and he shot the ball went
Speaker 2: out for they were we were winning one zero, his
Speaker 2: team was winning one zero. And it is I think,
Speaker 2: like the final final couple of minutes of the game, right,
Speaker 2: and he shot the ball hit the posts and went
Speaker 2: out of bounce and he and he could have gone
Speaker 2: and got it, and I think he was about to
Speaker 2: go and get it, and he was about to give
Speaker 2: it to the goalie, and I screamed, I said, leave it.
Speaker 2: Go back to your position and leave it. Let the
Speaker 2: goalie get it. Right, it's the last couple of minutes
Speaker 2: of the game. Let the goalie get it. It's their ball,
Speaker 2: don't get it. And I remember I had a parent
Speaker 2: from the other team scream, way to teach your kids sportsmanship,
Speaker 2: And that to me is just that's that's the that's
Speaker 2: the maliciousness without malice. Because if you go to anywhere
Speaker 2: else in the world and watch soccer, these kids at five, six, seven,
Speaker 2: eight years old, if that ball goes out of balance
Speaker 2: and they're winning one zero, they're gonna fake stretch like
Speaker 2: they're doing a quad stretch, and they're gonna let that
Speaker 2: ball roll right by. And that to me is just like,
Speaker 2: that is the thing that I think we need to
Speaker 2: teach Americans that you'll do anything to win, right that
Speaker 2: that to me is not evil. Right, that's not evil.
Speaker 2: That has nothing to do with sportsmanship in my opinion.
Speaker 2: That is finding the littlest smallest of details to try
Speaker 2: and win a game. And that's that's something that I
Speaker 2: think if we play, if you watch Cope America, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: you watch Cope America, that those guys are doing anything
Speaker 2: and everything they can to win. Now, are they cheating? No?
Speaker 2: Was that moment right there a teaching lesson to tell
Speaker 2: my son, Hey, that's cheating. No, because it's not cheating.
Speaker 2: It's their ball. Right, you don't have to be the
Speaker 2: kid that's going to take the ball. You're not losing.
Speaker 2: You don't have to get the ball and take it
Speaker 2: back and put it on the on the on the
Speaker 2: six yard box right to to you know, now, make
Speaker 2: play go by quicker. You're winning. Let the time go
Speaker 2: by slower or earlier. Let your head you just take
Speaker 2: your time. It's like when a corner kick goes us
Speaker 2: as us as parents or us as coaches sometimes or
Speaker 2: as kids. You're winning the ball and the ball goes
Speaker 2: out for a corner kick and a kid an American kid,
Speaker 2: every American kid that I watch, they will sprint over
Speaker 2: to get the ball and they'll put it on the
Speaker 2: corner and you're winning one zero and you have three
Speaker 2: minutes left. Well, I remember the second I moved to
Speaker 2: Brazil and that happened, I probably would have gotten taken
Speaker 2: out been the next sub because the coach would have said, hey,
Speaker 2: the next time the ball goes out for a corner
Speaker 2: kick and you're winning one to zero, I want you
Speaker 2: to walk as slow as you can, right. And that
Speaker 2: that is that to me, is not malicious. That is
Speaker 2: that to me is right maliciousness without without malice, right.
Speaker 2: And I think those little nuances that I think that
Speaker 2: I think other cultures can teach us to understand. And
Speaker 2: I think that's that's probably a huge asset of Whattino
Speaker 2: will probably give these guys, right, even from even from
Speaker 2: a professional level. I think it trickles, It trickles down right,
Speaker 2: and I think that, you know, I think that's a
Speaker 2: huge piece of it to to really you know, in
Speaker 2: my personal opinion, it is doing it. I heard I
Speaker 2: heard the saying the other day and it says there
Speaker 2: is a winning mentality that most kids and most people
Speaker 2: have a winning mentality, and then beyond the winning mentality
Speaker 2: is the domination mentality. And it was talking about professional
Speaker 2: athletes having a domination mentality. You don't want to just win,
Speaker 2: you want to absolutely dominate. And that that is that
Speaker 2: is even if you're playing against right, or you're competing
Speaker 2: with your teammates. Right, if I'm competing with my teammates
Speaker 2: or my old teammates and we're doing whatever the silliest
Speaker 2: of soccer tennis games, right and playing soccer tennis, I
Speaker 2: want to dominate my friend in soccer tennis, right. And
Speaker 2: I think that's just the that's the mentality that I
Speaker 2: think we need to bring within the national team to
Speaker 2: to just find a way to do anything anything possible
Speaker 2: within their hands without cheating, without being evil, but by winning.
Speaker 2: And I think that's that that's a huge that's a
Speaker 2: huge step that I think I personally think, but Youatina
Speaker 2: will bring will bring to the.
Speaker 3: Team because I would pause it that there is a
Speaker 3: difference between sportsmanship and gamesmanship and be and and being
Speaker 3: at the front of soccer etiquette and you know, being
Speaker 3: prim and proper and you know like this, you know
Speaker 3: we have to we have to do things this way
Speaker 3: because they've done it this way for five centuries and
Speaker 3: you know we have Yeah, but there's there's there's a
Speaker 3: difference between sportsmanship, gamesmanship, and being and being a dominant
Speaker 3: individual out there. And I think that you can you
Speaker 3: can integrate two or three of those at the same
Speaker 3: two of three of those at the same time. You
Speaker 3: can be dominant, and you can have gamesmanship. You can
Speaker 3: be dominant and have sportsmanship. You can be uh, you
Speaker 3: can have gamesmanship and still have sportsmanship. So I think
Speaker 3: you can take two of those three at any given
Speaker 3: time and still be as highly successful as you feel
Speaker 3: like you need to be.
Speaker 2: And and I think there are moments, even when I
Speaker 2: watch youth soccer that I just give another example of
Speaker 2: even that of watching kids there that you might be
Speaker 2: winning two to one and there's a counter attack for
Speaker 2: the other team, and in your mind you have these
Speaker 2: parents or you have your coach telling you don't foul, right, Well,
Speaker 2: mine is it's okay to foul. There's a kind of
Speaker 2: professional foul pool. Yeah, jersey, pull a jersey from behind right,
Speaker 2: stop the counter attack, and and you know you if
Speaker 2: you need to receive a yellow, you receive a yellow.
Speaker 2: It's okay, it's a warning. A yellow card is a warning, right,
Speaker 2: just don't do it again. Right, But you've taken a
Speaker 2: foul for You've taken something for the team, and that's that.
Speaker 2: That's you're not being evil in that moment. You're not
Speaker 2: coming from behind and absolutely swiping some kid from his
Speaker 2: feet and just kicking him as hard as you can. Know.
Speaker 2: You're creating a professional foul to try and give an
Speaker 2: advantage for your team to hopefully. That's why I say
Speaker 2: you're doing anything and everything you can to win, and
Speaker 2: that that that is something that I think if I
Speaker 2: were to go to Spain or Brazil or any other
Speaker 2: place in the in the sorry in the world, in
Speaker 2: the United States pretty much pretty pretty much. But uh,
Speaker 2: you don't. You don't. You see it quite often there, right,
Speaker 2: You see these kids already having because I think they
Speaker 2: watch so much they watched their their there. It's so
Speaker 2: it's so they're so used to seeing those things within
Speaker 2: the within the game that they watch, and we don't.
Speaker 2: We don't have that, right, we don't, we don't have
Speaker 2: that within us. For them. It's it's you know, it
Speaker 2: embodies their culture of doing anything and everything to win.
Speaker 2: It even from a very young age.
Speaker 3: You're reading my notes because the word I was going
Speaker 3: to use was cultural, and it seems like it is
Speaker 3: a cultural thing in the you know, in the United States,
Speaker 3: that regardless of what we're talking about here, we we
Speaker 3: have to be the ones that play by the rule book.
Speaker 3: We have to be the ones that stand the straightest
Speaker 3: and sit there and point at the rule book and go, well,
Speaker 3: these are the rules of engagement that you know, and
Speaker 3: these are the rules that are written therefore, these are
Speaker 3: the rules that are that they are.
Speaker 1: And and like I said, I think we could be.
Speaker 3: Talking sports, We're could be talking yeah, you know, business
Speaker 3: or whatever, but these are the rules, and these are
Speaker 3: the rules that we have to abide by, as you know,
Speaker 3: the guy in the white hat. But culturally, I think
Speaker 3: that and it's easy to see from what you mentioned
Speaker 3: with all of the all of the countries that all
Speaker 3: of that have all the different leagues that are out
Speaker 3: there now that we can watch that we have access to,
Speaker 3: that it's not one of those situations where you have
Speaker 3: to wear the white hat all the time. There's nothing
Speaker 3: wrong with the good guy who's got that little streak
Speaker 3: of wearing the dark stripe every once in a while.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with that if you are chasing after
Speaker 3: an achievement and other folks are doing it. But you've
Speaker 3: got to you know, we have to be too nice.
Speaker 3: We've got to be the white hat all the time.
Speaker 3: It seems like it's a cultural thing.
Speaker 2: I spoke to him in tea yesterday, girl, and I
Speaker 2: told her, look, this weekend, I want you to play
Speaker 2: a chip on your shoulder with chip with a chip
Speaker 2: on your shoulder, but also be compassionate. Right, you can
Speaker 2: be both. You can still play with a chip on
Speaker 2: your shoulder and you can know that you are right
Speaker 2: the bomb, but you can still be compassionate, and you
Speaker 2: can still be compassionate towards your teammates and be a
Speaker 2: great leader. But you know, give me the ball, I'll
Speaker 2: resolve it, right, give me the ball. I'll take care
Speaker 2: of this. And I think that's that's that's the mentality
Speaker 2: that I think a lot I want a lot of
Speaker 2: these kids to to take to They can take on
Speaker 2: that responsibility and sometimes put that pressure on their shoulders
Speaker 2: because it holds them accountable to a certain extent, but
Speaker 2: it helps them mature and it helps them grow in
Speaker 2: a certain way, and so I like, I like putting
Speaker 2: that pressure on kids sometimes because I feel like in
Speaker 2: their minds and we always talk about this sometimes with kids,
Speaker 2: and just I use the younger generations because I think
Speaker 2: from a soccer perspective, we are still so far away
Speaker 2: from this is my first opinion from winning a World Cup.
Speaker 2: We're so far away. But because I think those are little,
Speaker 2: those are still like the little nuances and the little
Speaker 2: things that I think we need to it needs to
Speaker 2: start from a very young age to start to start
Speaker 2: teaching these things. That that is. And I guess you
Speaker 2: know the word. The word will always come back to hunger, right,
Speaker 2: And I think that's that that that to me is
Speaker 2: I think something that you you see in other cultures.
Speaker 2: You see in other places there is a hunger. There
Speaker 2: is a hunger from the very gig go. And I
Speaker 2: just don't see that with soccer yet. I see it
Speaker 2: with other sports within the States, but not with soccer yet.
Speaker 2: And I think once we develop that hunger, I think
Speaker 2: that that things will change.
Speaker 3: Well I would, and I would sit there and say
Speaker 3: that probably because those sports were here first and they've
Speaker 3: been here longer, that you have that mental those mentalities
Speaker 3: attached to those sports, and the longer that soccer is here,
Speaker 3: the more it becomes ingrained, the more that it becomes
Speaker 3: a part of the fabric of what we see on
Speaker 3: a daily basis, then that idea will continue to rise
Speaker 3: and be a part of things in soccer. I would
Speaker 3: I would venture to guess that that would be the case.
Speaker 2: I would assume. So I think that's you know, if
Speaker 2: you speak to kids who travel the world or go
Speaker 2: play soccer in other places, although they might not be
Speaker 2: playing at a higher level in the other places, but
Speaker 2: when every time they come back, I'll always ask them,
Speaker 2: you know, all these kids that go to you know,
Speaker 2: Europe or South America during the summer, and I'll always
Speaker 2: ask them, what's what's the biggest difference that we loved it?
Speaker 2: It was so great, man, Those kids they want it
Speaker 2: more than anything. And my question is, well, why don't
Speaker 2: Why don't you want him more than anything? You have
Speaker 2: to want any more. You can do this. You can
Speaker 2: have the same mentality just in a different environment, in
Speaker 2: a different location, and and it's okay to have that mentality.
Speaker 2: And so, you know, I think that's that's a that's
Speaker 2: a massive lesson for all of us, and just going
Speaker 2: back to our national team head coach, I think that
Speaker 2: is that is the mindset that he will try. I
Speaker 2: don't know if he will be successful, but that he
Speaker 2: will try and strive to implement within within the team
Speaker 2: that we have right now.
Speaker 3: How hard is it to pull the want two gene
Speaker 3: out of a mend.
Speaker 2: The want two gene of just like wanting it more
Speaker 2: than anything?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Basically it's a it's a there's a Southern expression.
Speaker 3: It's about the want to and it's uh, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like, well, you know, you see someone who is
Speaker 3: allegedly not performing to what adults have as a standard
Speaker 3: for a you know, for a teenager that the want
Speaker 3: to isn't there. You know, So how did to pull
Speaker 3: the want two out of a mantee?
Speaker 2: You know? I always always try and like pick their
Speaker 2: brains a bit and and and get them to understand.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously the game is very mental, right it is.
Speaker 2: I always tell kids, I think it's one hundred percent mental,
Speaker 2: But it can only be one hundred percent mental if.
Speaker 1: You if you also have heart, yeah right.
Speaker 2: And if your heart's not in it, then that grit
Speaker 2: and like you said, that one that desire, that will,
Speaker 2: that love, that passion, then the brain is most likely
Speaker 2: not going to be in it. So before before your
Speaker 2: mental game can play a massive piece, there has to
Speaker 2: be heart. And so I think that's a that's a
Speaker 2: huge component. That's a huge that's a huge way that
Speaker 2: I try and explain to kids the best way possible
Speaker 2: for them to understand that. But I I can't. I
Speaker 2: can't teach that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right.
Speaker 2: I can teach them things to use as self talk.
Speaker 2: I can teach them things to in ways to be
Speaker 2: a great leader. I can teach them ways and and
Speaker 2: and understanding that life is not fair. I can't teach heart.
Speaker 2: That's something I can't teach. That's something I can talk about.
Speaker 2: But like I always tell them, and we've talked before
Speaker 2: about the bamboo tree, right, I can only plant to
Speaker 2: see you know, the rest. The rest is up to
Speaker 2: them to water each and every day. That's that's that grit,
Speaker 2: that's that heart that you have behind it.
Speaker 3: When you see as a mentor, the the bamboo tree grow.
Speaker 3: When you get to see as a mentor, you get
Speaker 3: to see that want to come out, You get to
Speaker 3: see the heart, You get to see the God come out.
Speaker 3: From a men tea that you've been trying to sit
Speaker 3: there and and you know, just have a conversation where
Speaker 3: it's like, hey, you know if it's there, I know
Speaker 3: it's there. When you get to see all of that
Speaker 3: come out of a mentee, what does that mean to you?
Speaker 3: And Parky when you get to see something like that happen.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's great because you in my in my
Speaker 2: personal opinion, it is knowing that right, ninety nine percent
Speaker 2: of that kid's future is not going to be in
Speaker 2: professional soccer and so well nine point nine right, But
Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's coming to an understanding that whatever
Speaker 2: that kid.
Speaker 4: Does, he or she uh will have that mentality to
Speaker 4: tackle their tasks ahead of them, right to want to
Speaker 4: accomplish those tasks that they haven't ahead of them.
Speaker 2: And that's that's the biggest message. That's the biggest message,
Speaker 2: and wanting them to understand that if they have college ahead,
Speaker 2: if they have entrepreneurship ahead, if they have a managing
Speaker 2: position ahead, if they have an industrial worker ahead, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter whatever they become, that they will have tasks
Speaker 2: ahead of them each and every day. And I know
Speaker 2: in that moment, whatever this kid, does he or she
Speaker 2: is going to going to be able to accomplish those
Speaker 2: those tasks, those given tasks, And that's that's the most
Speaker 2: gratifying thing for us, I think, and seeing that and
Speaker 2: noticing that, and also just helping them understand, you know,
Speaker 2: the challenges that will come along with it, and I
Speaker 2: think that's that's an interesting piece of it as well.
Speaker 3: Hanging out with twitterlest Greg Gars here on the Friday
Speaker 3: free kick here on the SDH network on the morning
Speaker 3: show before you came on, I was talking about it
Speaker 3: Landey United too, and last night they lose in a
Speaker 3: penalty shootout. The way the score, the way the points
Speaker 3: are allotted in MLS next pro is three points for
Speaker 3: a win, one point for a draw, and if you
Speaker 3: win in penalties after the fact, you get an extra point.
Speaker 2: Okay, every every game, Every game goes into penalties.
Speaker 1: Every game.
Speaker 3: If it's if no, if it's drawn, If it's drawn
Speaker 3: after ninety minutes, then it goes into pks. If it's
Speaker 3: if it's decided in ninety minutes, it's three points to
Speaker 3: the winner. If it's a draw after ninety minutes, every
Speaker 3: if each team gets a point, but then you go
Speaker 3: to penalties and the winner in penalties gets an extra
Speaker 3: point for wins. They call it a shootout win.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Uh. Atlanta United to three matches to go in the
Speaker 3: regular season. Last night, they go to Charlotte to take
Speaker 3: on Charlotte f c's MLS next Pro team. They don't
Speaker 3: win in regulation and they end up losing in penalties,
Speaker 3: and so they needed to win their last three and
Speaker 3: get some tie breakers to get into the postseason. So
Speaker 3: regular season is it for Atlante United too?
Speaker 1: But what I wanted to.
Speaker 3: Discuss with you before we go is okay, So there
Speaker 3: are still two matches left in their regular season, and
Speaker 3: there are still things that those players, whomever Steve Cook
Speaker 3: chooses to be a part of the game day eighteens
Speaker 3: and then the elevens on Tuesday and then on the
Speaker 3: twenty ninth. The season isn't over, even though in wins
Speaker 3: and losses and a postseason, it's over when you still
Speaker 3: have things to show with only a handful of games left,
Speaker 3: when there is no postseason for you to se right,
Speaker 3: So then how difficult is that to keep the light
Speaker 3: switch on so you can continue to show Hey, I'm improving,
Speaker 3: Hey I deserve to hang around here or I'm you know,
Speaker 3: I'm basically I'm playing for my job in these last
Speaker 3: two matches, and that's that's the.
Speaker 1: Big thing here.
Speaker 3: How do you impress upon mentees and other individuals and
Speaker 3: peers around you, Hey, just because something they a task
Speaker 3: down the line, is not attainable, doesn't mean that you
Speaker 3: should just stop doing what you're doing.
Speaker 2: The message I would give every single one of those
Speaker 2: kids is that your season is over, right, but don't
Speaker 2: let your career be over, because maybe these last two
Speaker 2: games are the determining factor of your soccer career because
Speaker 2: that's how quickly it can change, That's how quickly it
Speaker 2: can go and snap of a finger in two games,
Speaker 2: your career can be over in two games. So that
Speaker 2: would be the message that I that would give. It's
Speaker 2: totally up to them, Yeah, is their season over? Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know it's up to you personally if you
Speaker 2: want your career to be over. And so if you're
Speaker 2: switched on and you can continue to show within two
Speaker 2: games and kind of be those your trial moments, how
Speaker 2: are you're going to prepare yourself for those trials? How
Speaker 2: are you going to try and perform within those trials
Speaker 2: to continue to have a livelihood to have a job.
Speaker 2: I think that's extremely important. Now. I know a lot
Speaker 2: of those kids, I believe are with two's and I
Speaker 2: think there a lot of them might already be committed
Speaker 2: to colleges, right.
Speaker 1: So they're a handful, yeah, a handful of kids.
Speaker 2: So I mean for them, for those kids, I think
Speaker 2: it's more so just getting minutes under their belt and
Speaker 2: maybe that experience to prepare them for what's next. But
Speaker 2: if there are a few players on that team that
Speaker 2: uh that you know, have have the opportunity to continue
Speaker 2: to whether it be play for LA and I two
Speaker 2: or go somewhere else within MLS, next pro then or
Speaker 2: even USL or another MLS team, then these these are
Speaker 2: your These are your footage moments and clip moments to
Speaker 2: start compiling. And you have two games to do it.
Speaker 2: So you're creating the opportunity for yourself.
Speaker 3: All right, as you fight the lawnmowers and the handyman
Speaker 3: that are doing all the work outside with the leaf
Speaker 3: blowers today and it sounds like you're fighting grass Alley.
Speaker 1: Oh geez, with everything.
Speaker 2: I've been buying with allergies since since the fall man,
Speaker 2: it's killing me. I feel like I'm talking out of
Speaker 2: my nose.
Speaker 1: Well it is.
Speaker 3: It is a very nice base nasally. Greg Garza hanging
Speaker 3: out with us this morning. I know that you're probably
Speaker 3: gonna want to go hang upside down for about four
Speaker 3: hours after you're done talking to what's going on with
Speaker 3: you and Parky and Beyond Goals. I know that the
Speaker 3: high school's kind of getting ready. Colleges or ride that
Speaker 3: are off and running what's going on.
Speaker 2: Same mode, still plugging away and creating new ideas to
Speaker 2: continue to grow the game, and like I always said,
Speaker 2: give back to the game.
Speaker 3: The game so much to us, loving it at b G,
Speaker 3: mentoring beyond Goals, mentoring on the World Wide Web and
Speaker 3: on the interwebs, and all that kind of stuff. Go
Speaker 3: hang upside down, fight those allergies. We'll catch up with
Speaker 3: you soon, my friend. I'm glad I saved our notes
Speaker 3: about sportsmanship, gamesmanship, love it and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you soon, my friend. Take care
Speaker 1: all right. That's Greg Garza and his nose