Speaker 1: And so this is when we do the hot tag
Speaker 1: and bring in our buddy Greg Garza. Oh and see
Speaker 1: now and Greg is out on the little nye. See
Speaker 1: now Greg's got the Greg's got the pretty backdrop this morning.
Speaker 2: So uh nice, I love that backdrop.
Speaker 3: Brother, good morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wish it was uh, I wish it was fake.
Speaker 4: And I'm just kidding, very very grateful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's uh.
Speaker 4: It's a little smoky here. It's uh, there's some smoke.
Speaker 3: I'm in Canada right now.
Speaker 4: My boys are in Brazil, so it's a little smoky
Speaker 4: here due to the wildfires in Manitoba.
Speaker 2: Yes, and so of course the way you can.
Speaker 3: Kind of see you in the background, Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, keeping an eye on all of that,
Speaker 1: and the fact that you are that you're that you're
Speaker 1: in the sixth and that everything is coming from Manitoba
Speaker 1: and working its way your way.
Speaker 2: That's just absolutely that's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 4: Last night last night, today is very hazy. Last night
Speaker 4: was like very very much.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, how much time are you spending north of
Speaker 1: the border these days?
Speaker 4: I'd probably say right now, I have a couple of
Speaker 4: weeks here. I think taking advantage of my boys. It's
Speaker 4: stuff I have to like program my mind that my
Speaker 4: boys are are in Brazil and I'm like in preseason
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: It's like it's a preseason.
Speaker 4: I'd always be without my kids for like, you know,
Speaker 4: a month, month and a half, two months at a
Speaker 4: time while we would be away and they would be
Speaker 4: back back.
Speaker 3: Home with moms. So I'm like, my mind is.
Speaker 4: Programmed right there to where I'm like in preseason right now.
Speaker 3: But I'll be here. I'll be here and.
Speaker 1: Well, and I'm when you're with everything that you're doing
Speaker 1: now with beyond goals, it's a different kind of it's
Speaker 1: a different kind of it's skill sets and prioritizing and
Speaker 1: making sure that everything is lined up where all you're doing,
Speaker 1: all the globe trotting and all the soccer for good
Speaker 1: that you're doing, but you've still got to balance being
Speaker 1: a dad and you've got to balance all these other
Speaker 1: aspects of the life away from soccer. How different is
Speaker 1: that now with what you're doing with beyond goals? How
Speaker 1: different a juggling act is it these days?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's still I'm still I think I think being
Speaker 4: an entrepreneur allows that flexibility of still prioritizing what's what's important.
Speaker 4: You know, it still allows me to be a dad,
Speaker 4: to see my kids, to see my kids games every weekend,
Speaker 4: Whereas I think whenever even I played, I didn't have
Speaker 4: that that that.
Speaker 3: Ability, or that that luxury to do. So so.
Speaker 4: Now now with parking and myself, I think we're able
Speaker 4: to really prioritize family time and as well the things
Speaker 4: that matter to us. But at the same time travel
Speaker 4: a bit all at the same time and still be
Speaker 4: able to see the world.
Speaker 3: Instead of just a bus, a hotel in a.
Speaker 4: Stadium, we get to actually visit the city and learn
Speaker 4: some history and and see see things. You know, I'm
Speaker 4: I'm very fortunate to say I think I've been over
Speaker 4: forty five countries in the world today, but you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I've actually been able to really
Speaker 4: see all of those countries.
Speaker 3: And really I love I love learning about culture.
Speaker 4: And you obviously that every country and religion and belief
Speaker 4: and everything that that goes within. So it's cool to
Speaker 4: be it's cool to be in different places and and
Speaker 4: and learn different things about different different different locations.
Speaker 1: When you talk to your mentees, do you tell them
Speaker 1: about stepping away and the importance of stepping away and
Speaker 1: becoming you know, understanding life in three dimensions.
Speaker 3: Do you have those conversations big time?
Speaker 4: It is unbelievable to see how many kids are able
Speaker 4: to travel today because of soccer.
Speaker 3: I mean, I always tell kids, my my my.
Speaker 4: Greatest experience in playing the Beautiful Game was was the
Speaker 4: ability to travel and see different things and have a
Speaker 4: growth mindset and learn about different countries and cultures. And
Speaker 4: I want kids to to to know that they have
Speaker 4: that ability and an opportunity and be grateful for the
Speaker 4: those those moments as well. And my kids, my kids included,
Speaker 4: being in Brazil right now, seeing seeing a different way
Speaker 4: of life, playing on the streets right now with with
Speaker 4: kids they have no shoes on right playing barefoot on
Speaker 4: the street and not worrying about anything that might be
Speaker 4: on the street. Hopefully they stay safe, but I mean,
Speaker 4: that's the way of life there.
Speaker 3: That's that's uh, you know.
Speaker 4: I think sometimes we we take a lot for what
Speaker 4: we have for for granted. So I think it's even
Speaker 4: it's even good for even my my kids included, to
Speaker 4: see different ways of life in different areas of the world.
Speaker 1: What's it like to see them grow and respond to
Speaker 1: those different areas of the world and understand that it's
Speaker 1: not just us in a bubble. It is an entire
Speaker 1: world that's out there that they can learn from.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they've in particular, they have been immersed
Speaker 4: in it from a very young age.
Speaker 3: They they understand what it's like.
Speaker 4: They know they know the different ways of life and
Speaker 4: different parts of the world, especially where.
Speaker 3: Their parents it's are from.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's always important to take them back,
Speaker 4: not only to our roots, but help them understand the
Speaker 4: differences of of of how life has lived in different
Speaker 4: areas of the world. I mean that's always you know,
Speaker 4: we always talk about taking my kids every year. They
Speaker 4: always choose one place where they want to travel, you know,
Speaker 4: each and every one of them, and I always do
Speaker 4: that for them to to help them learn about different
Speaker 4: different places. But uh, it's it's my oldest it's my
Speaker 4: oldest choice this year, and I believe he will probably
Speaker 4: choose San Diego and Tijuana. So, I mean, he was
Speaker 4: born in Tijuana, so I think it's taking him back.
Speaker 4: He hasn't been there since he was probably about four
Speaker 4: years old when we left to to Atlanta, So it'll
Speaker 4: be it'll be an awesome trip to kind of see
Speaker 4: where he was born and get to know get no
Speaker 4: south of the border as well.
Speaker 1: And all right, since we talked about it at the Open.
Speaker 2: I know that I'm going kind of ways with you here.
Speaker 2: Did you see what happened with the Vancouver white.
Speaker 3: Caps with Chris Horner?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I did watch that game. Did you're like what happened?
Speaker 1: Or did I just like what happened after that might
Speaker 1: have contributed to the game?
Speaker 3: I did not what happened.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: They have not been practicing the last couple of days
Speaker 1: because of more than thirty staff members and team members
Speaker 1: suffering from gastro intestinal distress.
Speaker 3: So you think they were poisoned before the game?
Speaker 1: I think that they might have done some rookie mistakes.
Speaker 1: I think that they might have, oh I don't know,
Speaker 1: perhaps consumed the water that they weren't supposed to, or
Speaker 1: had food that they weren't supposed to. Might have had
Speaker 1: a little bit more of an adventure than they should have.
Speaker 1: That's what that's my guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that happened to me in Peru.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, playing in an under eighteen no sorry, an
Speaker 4: under twenty quadrangular tournament. It was us prew Column and
Speaker 4: be uh and maybe Brazil. But that happened to me
Speaker 4: maybe maybe the third day. I think I had played
Speaker 4: against Peru, and then that was my only game that
Speaker 4: I was able to play.
Speaker 3: I was, I was. I was in the hospital actually
Speaker 3: for wow a week and a half.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: They had to emergency flying me back to UH Portugal.
Speaker 4: I was playing in Portugal at the time and I
Speaker 4: was on an IV Wow. So I was not able
Speaker 4: to eat or drink absolutely anything. And that that was
Speaker 4: that was that who knows what they put in the
Speaker 4: food at the hotel.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's but yeah, I mean just when
Speaker 1: you mentioned that, that's crazy that that it would go
Speaker 1: to that kind of an extreme in a situation.
Speaker 4: Oh, when we were in Coco Labertadoras and with Club Tijuana,
Speaker 4: we would bring our own chef and he would cook.
Speaker 3: He would cook food.
Speaker 4: Even when we were traveled to Brazil and we would
Speaker 4: traveled to Bolivia, we would always bring our.
Speaker 3: Own chef and and he would go to the market
Speaker 3: buy the food, grocery store, buy the food and then
Speaker 3: cook it for us. We never eat the hotel food.
Speaker 3: Man gonna be careful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and so do you have conversations with uh,
Speaker 1: those in your circle, whether it's mentees or young folks
Speaker 1: in general. Just while you understand the culture and have fun,
Speaker 1: there's a job to do at the same time, of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I wouldn't put Vancouver's.
Speaker 4: Lost no to the what they ate. No, they just
Speaker 4: got absolutely hammered. Uh it was they turned into Intermlian.
Speaker 2: And psy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But I mean, yes, you have to be weary
Speaker 3: of of of what you eat, what you dream.
Speaker 4: It's especially when you were in different world countries for sure.
Speaker 2: I mean that's that's uh.
Speaker 1: You know when you see stuff like that, obviously you
Speaker 1: bring it to the front of the line and go, man,
Speaker 1: that's just absolutely crazy. A part of the and it's
Speaker 1: part of the learning experience about competitions.
Speaker 2: So you mentioned.
Speaker 1: Vancouver and them getting thumped by Cruise USUL. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of folks were sitting there thinking, Okay, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a cruse as they know that that's going
Speaker 1: to be the case, but it didn't this particular time.
Speaker 1: When you play in international competitions, it's a great learning
Speaker 1: experience on a bunch of different levels. But is the
Speaker 1: how much is the gap closing when it comes to
Speaker 1: the talent pool, when it comes to say US talent
Speaker 1: or US based talent, this hemisphere and then in the
Speaker 1: world space, where do you think that the gap is
Speaker 1: closing and how much is it closing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I just watched the video of Taylor
Speaker 4: Twelveman speaking yesterday.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw that same video.
Speaker 4: That theyre my life were past Mexican talent.
Speaker 3: Oh I disagree.
Speaker 4: I disagree because whenever we play these these next tournament,
Speaker 4: whatever we're playing, we alway playing the States.
Speaker 2: You know, that's.
Speaker 3: Uh for for us.
Speaker 4: I remember playing against Galaxy and the CONCA champions with
Speaker 4: Club Tijuana and playing in Galaxy with Robbie Keane and
Speaker 4: Landon Donovan and all those big Omar Gonzalez and all
Speaker 4: those big names that they had way back in the day.
Speaker 4: And I believe we lost one zero in in l
Speaker 4: A and had a few chances, and then we were
Speaker 4: just licking our chops for when we had them the
Speaker 4: next week in Tijuana because we knew it was going
Speaker 4: to be a thrashing, and I think we thrashed them.
Speaker 3: I want to say it was like five to zero or.
Speaker 4: Playing in Mexico is just a different it's a different,
Speaker 4: different atmosphere, and it's uh, you know, you talk about
Speaker 4: the bins and you talk about different locations Portland, and
Speaker 4: I mean, I can bring up some great environmental places
Speaker 4: to play, but it is it is not as hostile
Speaker 4: as when you play in Mexico. It's it's it's a
Speaker 4: different it's a different beast, it's a different animal when
Speaker 4: you play you know, these these games as as Vancouver
Speaker 4: played in the Puma Stadium, although it was at to say.
Speaker 3: Oh, you know, you have have a different, a different feel.
Speaker 4: You're you're dealing with external factors, you're dealing with altitude,
Speaker 4: you're dealing with the fan base, and it's.
Speaker 3: Just there's so much, there's so much more.
Speaker 4: So, you know, it's obviously subjective in what Taylor Twelman says,
Speaker 4: and I do think the gap is rather closing, but
Speaker 4: I still think, you know, it's it's very it's it's
Speaker 4: very it's very it's very close. The minimal, it's very minimal.
Speaker 4: But I think whenever we play in the States, we
Speaker 4: do have that advantage. We just never we never, we
Speaker 4: never take ourselves outside of our comfort zone. I mean
Speaker 4: I feel like I feel like we're almost kind of
Speaker 4: like the national team, right, the national team never takes
Speaker 4: themselves out of their comfort zone.
Speaker 3: We just we scrimmage, We scrimmage Bosnia.
Speaker 4: And and and you know Bulgar Area in Slovenia and
Speaker 4: New Zealand, but never scrimmage Spain or Italy or Holland
Speaker 4: or England, right, and and we never really get to
Speaker 4: put ourselves up against those beasts until when it really matters,
Speaker 4: and then that's when you see the the huge differences.
Speaker 4: So I think for MLS it's it's we almost kind
Speaker 4: of have that same we almost have that same uh
Speaker 4: same mindset as long as we can protect ourselves. And
Speaker 4: I think this is this will be a massive test
Speaker 4: with the Club World Cup right around the corner, Like
Speaker 4: I think that'll be a huge testament to see where
Speaker 4: we are in comparison to other clubs around the world and.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we hopefully we can compete.
Speaker 4: I I truly hope this is this is where I
Speaker 4: think Taylor Twelveman will have his next interview of of
Speaker 4: what what how we really shape up to other clubs
Speaker 4: in the world. And I hope we do, because I
Speaker 4: do feel like we are climbing up the ranks. But
Speaker 4: but I do feel like we still have some ways
Speaker 4: to go in terms of of that level. I think
Speaker 4: we are at an enormous level. I think we are
Speaker 4: an enormous level in terms of where the league is,
Speaker 4: but but we still we still have some ways to go.
Speaker 1: Great guards to hear and the Freddie free kick breaking
Speaker 1: everything down at beaching mentoring on social media. So when
Speaker 1: you talk to your mentees about hostile environments and external
Speaker 1: factors and things that they can't control but still have
Speaker 1: to focus on the task at hands so they could
Speaker 1: be successful, what are those conversations like, I.
Speaker 3: Think preparation, Preparation is everything.
Speaker 4: Preparation is key, and making sure you're staying consistent in
Speaker 4: those in those areas, you know, controlling what you can control.
Speaker 3: I think that's that's an important piece of it.
Speaker 1: Then you go from the controlling the controllables to learning
Speaker 1: that there are those gaps, those talent gaps, and not
Speaker 1: getting wrapped up into the idea of, oh crap, they
Speaker 1: really are that much better than me. I've got to
Speaker 1: get to that level instead of having it weigh you down.
Speaker 1: What about you know, having those kinds of conversations about
Speaker 1: self improvement and not focusing on the outside and the
Speaker 1: focusing on the inside out so you can become a better.
Speaker 4: App Yeah, self assessment is a huge is a huge
Speaker 4: component to what we speak about. You consistently have to
Speaker 4: always look at the man in the mirror, never never
Speaker 4: point fingers, don't make excuses, Consistently think about improvement, you know, analyze, review,
Speaker 4: reflect on what you can get better at. Have find
Speaker 4: a way to fix your mistakes and find your consistencies.
Speaker 3: Self assessment is a huge piece.
Speaker 4: To to what we apply and then also implement within
Speaker 4: our program.
Speaker 2: So when you discuss self assessment, do your mentees understand
Speaker 2: that initially or is it something that they have to
Speaker 2: warm up to instead of sitting there and comparing themselves
Speaker 2: in uh, you know inbound, it's comparing yourself outbound, I
Speaker 2: mean self assessment.
Speaker 3: Were Self assessment is a constant reminder.
Speaker 4: I think even with with with even if you don't
Speaker 4: play sports right, you're the.
Speaker 3: World the world is.
Speaker 4: The world is full of judgment, and the world is
Speaker 4: full of comparisons. From a scouting perspective, in soccer, everything
Speaker 4: is comparison, right. You are comparing this player to that player,
Speaker 4: that player to this player, this player to that player.
Speaker 4: But when you are amidst and you are kind of
Speaker 4: immersed in the world of sport, uh, and you are
Speaker 4: that player, then that's where I think that that judgment
Speaker 4: has to be of your own, and I think that's
Speaker 4: where it is. I think even the self assessment is
Speaker 4: still taking constructive criticism from those that you feel like
Speaker 4: you could take advice from, yeah, and kind of shutting
Speaker 4: out and and blocking out the rest uh and making
Speaker 4: sure you're just focusing on the man in the mirror,
Speaker 4: because I think that's a huge that is a huge
Speaker 4: component towards improvement.
Speaker 3: That's a huge component towards staying.
Speaker 4: Staying I guess, loyal to your own trajectory and your
Speaker 4: own path and not allowing anything else to veer you
Speaker 4: off into a different direction.
Speaker 2: How do you keep it from being too self critical?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 3: I like kids who are self critical.
Speaker 4: I enjoy kids who are very critical of themselves because
Speaker 4: I feel like the greatest of athletes are very critical
Speaker 4: of themselves, as long as it is critical towards growth,
Speaker 4: and I think that's a huge That's a huge component
Speaker 4: that I try to imply whenever I speak to kids,
Speaker 4: is you you have to think about being self critical
Speaker 4: and in terms of growing towards something that's that's that's better.
Speaker 4: You can't be critical and in pulling yourself down as
Speaker 4: long as it is, even if it is a pulley,
Speaker 4: but you know it's it's where you're consistently going into
Speaker 4: a forward and up upward direction rather than being critical
Speaker 4: to where it's you're you're not getting the best out
Speaker 4: of yourself.
Speaker 1: At the same time, though, and this might be a
Speaker 1: generational thing where I would anticipate that there are certain
Speaker 1: generations when it comes to their self criticism, that they
Speaker 1: are too harsh, but that's just what they know from
Speaker 1: their their particular age group and those that were influencing
Speaker 1: them in that particular timeframe. Are older mentees because of
Speaker 1: their influence, Are they more self critical that has to
Speaker 1: be corrected? Are they more open to the process of
Speaker 1: When it comes to I guess age differences, is there
Speaker 1: is there a difference in the self criticism.
Speaker 3: You'd be surprised.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of even even I see it
Speaker 4: on the younger side of the spectrum, to where more
Speaker 4: kids on even on the younger side or are are
Speaker 4: more self critical in a positive way rather than than
Speaker 4: older ones. I think it varies varies from age to
Speaker 4: age and generation to generation, but you know, I think
Speaker 4: I think it is more noticeable to see more kids
Speaker 4: critical towards a negative a negative way rather than than
Speaker 4: a positive way from from from our point of view.
Speaker 4: And so it's always trying to just help them understand
Speaker 4: how to turn maybe that negativity into a positive outcome
Speaker 4: when when they are when they're assessing their game player
Speaker 4: reflecting or reviewing and always thinking about growth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was why I was asking it that way,
Speaker 1: but because I would anticipate that when you have all
Speaker 1: of this external peer pressure that's attached to it, you
Speaker 1: try to navigate through it, make yourself better through self criticism,
Speaker 1: but you have those external factors that can either push
Speaker 1: you forward and make you fix it sooner, or they
Speaker 1: can drag you back and make the process along.
Speaker 2: Am I am I off there.
Speaker 3: Big time, big time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, you want you want kids to kind
Speaker 4: of understand small cues and the.
Speaker 3: And as quickly as possible to.
Speaker 4: To help them, to help them whenever they do critique themselves,
Speaker 4: or whenever they do receive constructive criticism, or when they
Speaker 4: do try and think about improvement. It's it's it's always
Speaker 4: it's always towards a positive direction.
Speaker 1: And I mean it's something that for those of us
Speaker 1: of a certain age group, it was negative first and
Speaker 1: and it was like, you know, it'll be a cold
Speaker 1: day in hell before you you know, you go back
Speaker 1: to doing that all over again, and that stuff can
Speaker 1: stick with you, and then as an adult it can
Speaker 1: influence and it's almost like a trickle down effect of
Speaker 1: this is how I was influenced, and so by default,
Speaker 1: this is how I influence. And so I think for
Speaker 1: adults it's just as much of a challenge to try
Speaker 1: and change that mindset.
Speaker 2: And so when they try to influence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, big time.
Speaker 4: Uh we you and I have talked about this before
Speaker 4: or and just understanding understanding how to manage different generations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 4: I always I always tell people, I think in our generation,
Speaker 4: we're we're built very tough. Coaches coaches pulled us, pulled
Speaker 4: us by the collar, or us by the ear or
Speaker 4: where in today's world that's that's you're not unable to
Speaker 4: do so. And I think it was more when when
Speaker 4: you were a kid, you were more accepting of that. Uh,
Speaker 4: It's like it was the it was the norm, where
Speaker 4: in today's world would be very abnormal for anybody to
Speaker 4: do any anything like that.
Speaker 3: I mean you would, you wouldn't be able to.
Speaker 4: So still trying to help kids understand how to be tough,
Speaker 4: but looking at it from a different angle and approaching
Speaker 4: it from a different angle.
Speaker 3: Is important as well.
Speaker 2: How tough are kids?
Speaker 3: I think kids are quite tough.
Speaker 4: I think we can go back to what we initially
Speaker 4: talked about and helping them understand that that seeing different
Speaker 4: ways of life in different different areas of the world
Speaker 4: can all be is teach them different perspectives and also
Speaker 4: different lenses that they can look through, and in terms
Speaker 4: of understanding what what what the world is, I think
Speaker 4: that's that's life's biggest lesson is to to see how
Speaker 4: people are raised in different areas of the world to
Speaker 4: shape who you can truly be. I think I I
Speaker 4: am who I am today because of all the experiences.
Speaker 3: That I had been and and kind of seen through.
Speaker 4: You know, my my own two eyes, and and understanding
Speaker 4: that people live, you know, various different lives all over
Speaker 4: the world, and it allows it allows me to always
Speaker 4: step into moments with first and foremost gratitude and understanding
Speaker 4: what what I have, but also at the same time
Speaker 4: challenging me to always think think like that rather than
Speaker 4: rather than, you know, make an excuse for complaining about
Speaker 4: something that that shouldn't be complained about.
Speaker 2: How many may teas do you have right now with
Speaker 2: you parking?
Speaker 3: How many do we have?
Speaker 4: Yeah, not actively, but we have surpassed over a thousand kids.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we have been now, I.
Speaker 4: Mean since the inception of Beyond Goals, we have we
Speaker 4: have touched over and I would say been a part
Speaker 4: of over thousands of kids. But if you are to
Speaker 4: speak about the different high schools we've spoken to, different
Speaker 4: middle schools, different workshops we've done online, probably close to
Speaker 4: a good you know, thirty five four thousand mark of
Speaker 4: just kids in general and total number but individual sessions
Speaker 4: that we have had through programming that we have done
Speaker 4: on our on our end for sure, well well over
Speaker 4: well over a thousand kids.
Speaker 3: It's interesting.
Speaker 4: Somebody asked me the other day, how do you remember
Speaker 4: every single one of them?
Speaker 3: And I say, I do, Parking doesn't. Uh. I always
Speaker 3: have to remind Parky, like what what you know?
Speaker 4: Hey, this kid is this, this kid's been through this,
Speaker 4: or hey, you've actually spoken to this kid.
Speaker 3: Maybe a couple of years ago. We'll we'll just say
Speaker 3: it's an age thing.
Speaker 4: A little bit as you get older, so hopefully I
Speaker 4: won't get there, and and hopefully we can continue to
Speaker 4: do this to where I can be the the you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's funny. I've always been. I've always been. I
Speaker 4: think some people just have that. You know, I'm the
Speaker 4: type of person that you can tell me whatever game
Speaker 4: that I played in, who scored and what the score was,
Speaker 4: and that's always I think I'll always have that ability
Speaker 4: to just always remember those important pieces of you know,
Speaker 4: not necessarily just trivia, but just you know, have the
Speaker 4: ability to remember what.
Speaker 3: Happens so so long ago.
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's it's it's a it's a cool
Speaker 4: it's a cool thing to have.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was funny. My mom was, My mom was.
Speaker 4: My mom is is obsessed right now fixing my Wikipedia
Speaker 4: page because my Wikipedia.
Speaker 3: Page is so out of whack.
Speaker 4: Wow, it doesn't have it doesn't have correct or true
Speaker 4: information about my trajectory. And you never know, Wikipedia is
Speaker 4: just anybody can edit it, right. So my mom is,
Speaker 4: my mom is like the big editor of winning because
Speaker 4: most people, I mean, whenever.
Speaker 3: I look at people I look at their Wikipedia page.
Speaker 4: So uh, you know, my mom is like obsessed right
Speaker 4: now and fixing everything.
Speaker 3: So the last couple of days of calling me, hey, Bubba, do.
Speaker 4: You remember that one under seventeen camp that you went
Speaker 4: to and you know Germany and you guys played against
Speaker 4: Tony Cruz. What was the score of that game? And
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, yeah, it was three zero. I
Speaker 4: scored the first goal, Elis McLaughlin scored the second goal,
Speaker 4: and I believe Jose Altamedano scored the And she was like, holy.
Speaker 3: Sheesh, how do you know that. I was like, I
Speaker 3: don't no.
Speaker 4: I just that we gotta we gotta find that somewhere
Speaker 4: on the internet to prove to Wikipedia. But I remember
Speaker 4: what that game was, and so yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 4: cool to have those memories and and and always think
Speaker 4: back about those important games.
Speaker 1: How many of the the og from Beyond Goals Entering
Speaker 1: are still in conversations and how many of them check
Speaker 1: back in with you and Parky as they continue to
Speaker 1: agent Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean one of our one of our for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean I could look right now and I see
Speaker 4: like Dominic chuang Qui was probably one of our.
Speaker 3: Mister Dominic chuang Qui was our tenth mintie.
Speaker 4: Wow, so you know, I speak to him quite often
Speaker 4: to see his trajectory.
Speaker 3: That was in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: I retired in April of twenty twenty one, and our
Speaker 4: inception of Beyond Goals was was, I think, you know,
Speaker 4: November October November we had the idea. The idea surged
Speaker 4: I think in August of twenty twenty one. So I
Speaker 4: mean it's been you know, almost almost four years since
Speaker 4: we since.
Speaker 3: We started this thing.
Speaker 4: And to see mister Dominic chan Qui grow up into
Speaker 4: the man, the young man he is, and and and
Speaker 4: the great adult he is. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: see see how successful he has become on the soccer side,
Speaker 4: and and his journey is just beginning, however, however far
Speaker 4: it takes him.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Noah Cobb was one of our very first ones as well.
Speaker 4: So to see to see these kids, to see these
Speaker 4: kids grow and and still have constant conversations with them,
Speaker 4: Uh is such is such a cool thing. I just
Speaker 4: talked to dom Dom's mom yesterday, so it's uh, you know,
Speaker 4: to still have conversation with their families and check in
Speaker 4: and see.
Speaker 3: How they're doing.
Speaker 4: I know he's in Switzerland right now with the under
Speaker 4: I believe under nineteen or into twenty national teams.
Speaker 3: So both both of those guys, right, So, uh, it's cool.
Speaker 4: It's really cool to see to see those kids mature
Speaker 4: and great young men, but also really stand behind what
Speaker 4: what beyond.
Speaker 3: Goals really really really means.
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's that was the whole point of it,
Speaker 4: to develop, to develop great human beings and and help
Speaker 4: these young men and women understand that the personality aspect
Speaker 4: is is so so significantly important.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and especially when you get to talk to Momshank
Speaker 1: we about Dom Chang Kui and find out you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, so you've got to make sure.
Speaker 2: That he's in a straight and arrow. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. One one other thing. Uh, and you can
Speaker 1: either disclose or not.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Last time Parky was on, he was saying that the
Speaker 1: roster might expand when it comes to mentors.
Speaker 2: Are you any closer to the expansion of the roster?
Speaker 3: We are? We are. It's it's it's a.
Speaker 4: It's a hard one to juggle because of how busy
Speaker 4: are are.
Speaker 3: I don't know if party had mentioned who it might be.
Speaker 2: No, He's like, I can't mention it, but know that
Speaker 2: it is that it is a her.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is a her, and we are super excited.
Speaker 4: She is a current pro, so we have to work
Speaker 4: around that as well. And she's also involved in uh
Speaker 4: the North of the Border national team and the national team.
Speaker 4: Uh So it's uh, I am in her native country
Speaker 4: right now, and she's involved in the in the UH.
Speaker 3: Our own country as well.
Speaker 4: So it's it's cool to have that connection and that
Speaker 4: tie in that bond, but also understand that, you know,
Speaker 4: she she is a busy She is a busy woman,
Speaker 4: you know, living living life as a pro and and
Speaker 4: and also wanting to be involved in something that we do.
Speaker 4: So we're super excited. We still have i'd probably say
Speaker 4: a month or so, hopefully hopefully get her by by August,
Speaker 4: right right when the season kind of racks and starts
Speaker 4: up for for most of these young players.
Speaker 1: Okay, and so obviously you're going to break the news
Speaker 1: on this show on a Friday.
Speaker 2: When this is official.
Speaker 3: Of course, we will.
Speaker 1: UH enjoyed the tea dot as always. The Golden Horseshoe
Speaker 1: is a really cool place. Uh, stay as healthy as
Speaker 1: possible with all that stuff going on over your left shoulder.
Speaker 1: It's always great to see him, my friend. Thanks for
Speaker 1: dropping by and spending valuable time.
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me Matt.
Speaker 4: Who's your who's your who's your guests? On this Club
Speaker 4: World Cup? I am, by the way, the Atlanta ambassador
Speaker 4: of FIFA. Uh so I'm very proud of that. So
Speaker 4: I get to go with the very opening match in
Speaker 4: Mercedes Bens. I think it's Chelsea and l a f
Speaker 4: C s correct random text from some dude in Switzerland
Speaker 4: that works for FIFA, and I was like, what.
Speaker 3: I thought it was?
Speaker 4: I thought it was yes at first, so I had
Speaker 4: to I had to talk to some people involved in
Speaker 4: the league and be like, is this is this real?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, I'm I'm trying to hope. I'm really
Speaker 4: trying to hope I can get my end, not necessarily
Speaker 4: for the Club World Cup, but for what's coming next
Speaker 4: year next year, no doubt before we spend four thousand
Speaker 4: dollars on yeah tickets and the nosebleed section for the
Speaker 4: World Cup next next year.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna have a bit of a collision here.
Speaker 1: We have a guest who is crashed. Do you know
Speaker 1: this gentleman, Greg Garza, Oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, this is the gentleman that needs to write
Speaker 4: a book after this show is over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you need to find him an author, John Well.
Speaker 1: I mean, considering that I've written a couple of books,
Speaker 1: I think it is very true. Uh, might be an
Speaker 1: opportunity for me to do this. But apparently Ozzy's joining
Speaker 1: us this week because it's good to catch up with Ozzy,
Speaker 1: So Greg Garza. Last time that Azzie Alonzo was on
Speaker 1: the show, Michael Parkhurst asked a question to Azzi Alonso.
Speaker 1: So I will ask you to ask a question to
Speaker 1: Azzie Alonzo.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll ask you this is This is good. You're
Speaker 4: getting my interview skills in right now. Uh huh, this
Speaker 4: is maybe it should be the other way around because
Speaker 4: we got the TV guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say I would say.
Speaker 4: This this is This is gonna be a very personal question.
Speaker 4: How how do you instill the the battles and obstacles
Speaker 4: and hurdles and challenges that you have learned throughout your
Speaker 4: personal life?
Speaker 3: How do you instill that within your.
Speaker 4: Own kids and helping them understand what you've been through
Speaker 4: in your life and how it's shaped you as your
Speaker 4: person and built your character as.
Speaker 5: Oh good question, right, yeah, now not to see your
Speaker 5: man you as well. Yeah, you know, I grew up
Speaker 5: in Cuba hard time in the beginning. My kid, you know,
Speaker 5: born in the United States. But I always tried to
Speaker 5: to make down a thing that when they do something,
Speaker 5: do with passion, because always another kid or they are
Speaker 5: that they don't have the double, the chander, they have
Speaker 5: the resource. I'm always you know, do your best no
Speaker 5: matter what. I'm always tried to to be engage. And
Speaker 5: you know, even if you play soca or baseball, do
Speaker 5: something else, you know, do something with passion because you're
Speaker 5: born in the United States with everything you hand and
Speaker 5: the only thing you have to is like go and
Speaker 5: do it. Because I grew up with nothing, I always
Speaker 5: tell my kids everything you have here, I didn't have it,
Speaker 5: so I had to walk double to make it happen.
Speaker 5: So I always engage them to do with with love
Speaker 5: and do the best for whatever they do.
Speaker 3: Love it, love it. We know he was a pretty
Speaker 3: passionate guy when he played.
Speaker 1: So uh Ozzie Alonzo question for Greg Garza before he
Speaker 1: gets out of here, Hey hey, look man, you're on TV.
Speaker 1: Now you've got to be ready to ask guests and
Speaker 1: a heart fee.
Speaker 5: Okay, so what do you what do a thing about.
Speaker 3: Police, pulicit policy, policit situation. Uh, gosh, that's a great question.
Speaker 4: I understand where he is coming from, but I believe
Speaker 4: when you have any opportunity.
Speaker 3: To represent your nation, you should you should take it.
Speaker 4: Why why not want to be the player that has
Speaker 4: the most capped?
Speaker 3: Why not want to.
Speaker 4: Surpass Kobe Jones or any other player that has represented
Speaker 4: the national team to put your name name on a
Speaker 4: pedestal to where you are the most represented player. Uh,
Speaker 4: that has has has played for your country.
Speaker 3: So I think it does not matter if you are.
Speaker 4: It's trying to explain to kids the difference between hurt
Speaker 4: and being injured. Right when you are hurt, well, there
Speaker 4: wasn't a day and either of our lives that we
Speaker 4: didn't feel hurt. There was You walk out on the
Speaker 4: field and your ear low would hurt, but you still
Speaker 4: go out and play. And when you're injured, that's that's
Speaker 4: the different. That's a different that's a different piece of it.
Speaker 4: So you know, I think I think I think he should.
Speaker 3: Have have played.
Speaker 4: That is my personal opinion, Especially when you have somebody
Speaker 4: of his caliber to change a game in a millisecond.
Speaker 3: You need those players.
Speaker 4: But I think whenever you have the opportunity to represent
Speaker 4: your nation, you don't say no.
Speaker 1: Absolutely true, all right, so Greg as always great to
Speaker 1: see you, my friend, and we'll catch up with you
Speaker 1: soon