Speaker 1: So all right, So here here's the deal.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk Open Cup first and foremost, whether whether
Speaker 2: with our mogul and training coming up in a second.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna pull back the curtain and ask about
Speaker 2: how these things come together. Sometimes we're gonna bring in
Speaker 2: Michael Parker's and find out first and foremost, how was vacation.
Speaker 1: Sir, Hey, John, Yeah, vacation great?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we made it. Yeah, I will say it was,
Speaker 3: of course, not without its little complications, but we made it.
Speaker 3: You know, you have to adjust sometimes and that's the
Speaker 3: name of the game. But the time we spent in
Speaker 3: South Carolina was great. We had good weather. The team
Speaker 3: did well well enough in some of the games that
Speaker 3: my daughter, as a freshman, got to play a little
Speaker 3: bit here and there, so that was great. And yeah,
Speaker 3: and the rest of us enjoyed the beach here and there.
Speaker 3: Didn't get in the water. Its freezing.
Speaker 1: But to take your good time, do you take your club.
Speaker 3: I did not take the clubs. No room in the
Speaker 3: car for such things, John.
Speaker 2: Not even on the luggage rack on the top and
Speaker 2: you sit there and you cover it with a tarp
Speaker 2: or something, and people sit there and go He's repairing
Speaker 2: a house.
Speaker 3: Obviously, the wife wanted to take the tarp on top
Speaker 3: and I was like, no, we can stuff it all
Speaker 3: in the car. I don't want to dry with that
Speaker 3: thing on top. So we crammed it and we made
Speaker 3: it so. Yes, I had to sacrifice the clubs. I
Speaker 3: still have not yet swung a club in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: It's depressing.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: We'll get there, all right.
Speaker 2: So you mentioned adventures in travel, so go ahead, lay
Speaker 2: them all out, get him off your chest.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't want you to. I don't want you to
Speaker 2: just hold it within. I want you to. I want
Speaker 2: you to cleanse from the adventures of travel.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, we missed an opportunity to stop by Wake
Speaker 3: Forest for a few hours. We planned on breaking up
Speaker 3: our trip and stopping at Wake for a while, but
Speaker 3: two out of the four of us had the stomach
Speaker 3: bug overnight into the morning of travel day, so we
Speaker 3: canceled all plans and drove straight home. And thankfully we
Speaker 3: had no episodes in the car. So that's that's, you know,
Speaker 3: a big positive there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, See, episodes in the car would be bad because
Speaker 2: you know it literally and you don't know if it's
Speaker 2: a false alarm or not. It's like, you know, pull over, stop, stop, stop,
Speaker 2: you know I'm gonna do something.
Speaker 3: We got a couple of those.
Speaker 1: Oh, you had a couple of false starts.
Speaker 3: We had a couple of false alarms. But I'd rather
Speaker 3: pull over and have a false alarm than not pull
Speaker 3: over and have a real alarm.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is always good. So is uh? Was Deacon
Speaker 1: happy to see you when you got home? Oh?
Speaker 3: Deacon made the trip, John? Oh, No, Deacon made the
Speaker 3: trip as terrified as she was in the car for
Speaker 3: all eleven hours of it.
Speaker 1: Deacon's terrified of the car.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't like it.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't do well enough taking her out and
Speaker 3: about as a puppy apparently, so she doesn't She doesn't
Speaker 3: like the car, but she'd rather be with us in
Speaker 3: the car than not with us.
Speaker 1: So, yes, that is absolutely true.
Speaker 3: I can still she's still sleeping things off, John, Yay.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I just I just have this vision of
Speaker 2: Deacon being out past curfew when you're on the beach
Speaker 2: and it's like, yeah, the door opens at like one
Speaker 2: thirty in the morning, Deacon's trying to sneak in. You're
Speaker 2: you're looking out and Deacon's like, oh, I thought you
Speaker 2: were asleep. Well I was till you open the door exactly.
Speaker 2: I just I just had this vision of Deacon partying
Speaker 2: on the road with the family Parkers.
Speaker 3: She was loving it. Came to all of our dinners. Thankfully.
Speaker 3: It's very dog friendly down there, beaches, restaurants and everything,
Speaker 3: so yeah, she got to experience everything.
Speaker 2: Then she's still crashed out, as she should because the
Speaker 2: rowdy man is absolutely crashed out right down here on
Speaker 2: the table.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: He's like literally when the boss leaves and I'm getting
Speaker 2: ready for the show every morning, he'll come down. He'll
Speaker 2: be on whatever level he's on, and he wants to
Speaker 2: make sure that he is in his poofy bed right
Speaker 2: down here, and he's crashed out and he's making sure
Speaker 2: that he's guarding everything and even with his eyes closed.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 2: So Greg was on his way to Pierson on a
Speaker 2: train and how did that conversation go?
Speaker 1: Yo, dude, I don't think I'm gonna make it. Can
Speaker 1: you sub for me?
Speaker 3: I saw the email and I texted him. I was like, dude,
Speaker 3: don't worry about it. I could jump on.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: I didn't know if this was like a like a
Speaker 2: oh my god, we're gonna do a quick tagget kind
Speaker 2: of a.
Speaker 3: Thing, I was like, no, no stress, no stress.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So then my first question has to do with detaching
Speaker 2: and taking it easy when it comes to your mentees
Speaker 2: and parents and such. Do they find it easy to
Speaker 2: unplug because they need the time to unplug or because
Speaker 2: they're so wired into wanting to be successful. You have
Speaker 2: all of these type a's that you kind of have
Speaker 2: to talk away from being on the field and being
Speaker 2: attached to the sport all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the higher level athletes and families definitely
Speaker 3: have a little bit more of a challenge sometimes unplugging
Speaker 3: the fear of getting behind or missing a practice or
Speaker 3: missing a game, or just not working out for a
Speaker 3: few days. I really can get to people. So I
Speaker 3: definitely see that, especially the higher the higher up you go.
Speaker 3: You know, there's some obviously that's you know, have no
Speaker 3: problem taking breaks and understand it and see it and everything.
Speaker 3: But yeah, there's definitely some that we work with where
Speaker 3: we have to encourage things and let them know, hey,
Speaker 3: it's going to be all right. You know. I I
Speaker 3: played seasonally when I was growing up right. I mean
Speaker 3: I kicked the ball around the house constantly and all
Speaker 3: the time. But you know, as far as team structured stuff, yeah, seasonally,
Speaker 3: so you'll be just fine.
Speaker 2: I have this I just have this vision of you
Speaker 2: kicking the ball around the house off season and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, smashing garage doors and going up against you know,
Speaker 2: like we have the hockey players that are always in
Speaker 2: the basement and they're always sitting there and shooting pucks
Speaker 2: and hitting posts and the steel the steel poles that
Speaker 2: are in the basement. How did you how did you
Speaker 2: deal with that indoors off season?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we did play a fair share of indoor soccer,
Speaker 3: so you know, I guess there was more than just
Speaker 3: you know, one or two seasons. There was a lot
Speaker 3: of indoor soccer. But inside my own house, yeah, there
Speaker 3: is a step from the porch into the actual house.
Speaker 3: You know, the porch is covered, but a step into
Speaker 3: the actual house. And that step got to be used
Speaker 3: with a size three soccer ball. And thank you fully,
Speaker 3: my parents never gave me a hard time about hearing
Speaker 3: a constant thud, thud thud. My aunt was a different story.
Speaker 3: Anytime she was over, it was like, can you stop
Speaker 3: kicking the ball, and you're like, no, yeah, what else
Speaker 3: am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1: It's like, well, well, do you want me to come
Speaker 1: in there and hang out with you?
Speaker 3: I have, Actually I've thought about it, John, And next
Speaker 3: time I'm home, I'm going to try and take like
Speaker 3: a picture and video of these two areas right up
Speaker 3: my house that I put in hours and hours and
Speaker 3: hours of kicking a soccer ball against. So that's it
Speaker 3: to give other people, you know, just a vision of
Speaker 3: what it is. And you know, kids these days think
Speaker 3: they need to have you know, this net, that net,
Speaker 3: this bounce back. You know, I have to be at practice.
Speaker 3: Oh there's every excuse in the book as to what
Speaker 3: they need in order to get better. And I had
Speaker 3: a step and a concrete little wall under he's the
Speaker 3: siding of my house, and that was it. And it
Speaker 3: was just enough for.
Speaker 2: Me back in my day exactly one of those kind
Speaker 2: of arguments. Back in my day, I walked uphill in
Speaker 2: the snow both ways to play ninety minutes of outdoor
Speaker 2: soccer in the middle of February.
Speaker 1: I just have that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely yeah, And I know you walked up hill
Speaker 2: both ways going to and from when you, and I
Speaker 2: still want to stick to the detachment idea and what
Speaker 2: it's like. So the higher the level, obviously there's always
Speaker 2: fomo and you're you know, sitting there going, oh my god,
Speaker 2: oh my god, Hm, I god, I'm falling behind. But
Speaker 2: when you have the talk, the talk with those higher
Speaker 2: level aspiration or levels of success folks, after you say
Speaker 2: it's okay to detach, does it sink and or do
Speaker 2: you have to kind of sit there and poke at
Speaker 2: him a couple of times and go, no, it's okay,
Speaker 2: I've done it, and here are my examples. Why or
Speaker 2: do they sit there it is it a one and
Speaker 2: done with them? Or do you have to kind of
Speaker 2: sit there and hammer at them a little bit? No,
Speaker 2: it's cool, you could it's okay to lay out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think rarely messages are a one and done,
Speaker 3: and I think it helps, no doubt right to get
Speaker 3: a perspective of someone that's been in their shoes and
Speaker 3: had higher level success. But you know, I think that
Speaker 3: they always think, well, times are different now, and you
Speaker 3: know I have to be, you know, keeping up with
Speaker 3: the joneses or otherwise I'll fall behind, or they just don't.
Speaker 3: You just don't get it what my coach is like
Speaker 3: or this and that that. You know, that may all
Speaker 3: be well and true, but yeah, I wish I could
Speaker 3: talk to some coaches out there as well and let
Speaker 3: them know, Hey, you know, if a kid's going to
Speaker 3: miss a game or this or that or a training
Speaker 3: session or whatnot, or you know, it's not the end
Speaker 3: of the world, like figure it out, you know.
Speaker 2: So so then what would you tell What would you
Speaker 2: tell these coaches who are as high wired as everybody else.
Speaker 2: It's like, because they I think they are just as
Speaker 2: driven toward championships and success and things like that, and
Speaker 2: then that feeds to wanting more championships and more success,
Speaker 2: and that that ending hamster wheel that's there.
Speaker 1: What would you tell coaches in these situations? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I just remember with my son when he was how
Speaker 3: old was he eight? Maybe nine? Max playing in Atlanta
Speaker 3: and he was doing baseball and soccer, you know, soccer,
Speaker 3: you know, the academy level soccer and baseball, and both
Speaker 3: coaches were like, yeah, we're he encourage multiple sports and
Speaker 3: it's okay, da da da. But both of them were
Speaker 3: basically like, you know, we encourage it, just don't miss
Speaker 3: my practice, don't miss my game essentially, right, Yeah, And
Speaker 3: so yeah, it's just such a challenge, you know, you
Speaker 3: tie and tell them like, yeah, we're going to do
Speaker 3: the best we can to manage both, but there's overlap
Speaker 3: here and we're going to miss some stuff here and there.
Speaker 3: And I get that from a coaching perspective, Hey, you
Speaker 3: can't have six players miss a game because you know,
Speaker 3: then we can't play the game. You know. But there's
Speaker 3: got to be a better way where we can still
Speaker 3: allow children to play multiple sports, especially under the age
Speaker 3: of eleven or twelve. It's just it's just crazy, uh,
Speaker 3: And so I just let them know that, Hey, you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's not the end of the world. And you
Speaker 3: know you want a happy, healthy, excited player, right. I
Speaker 3: don't care if this kid shows up to every training,
Speaker 3: If he shows up because he's forced to and doesn't
Speaker 3: want to be there, you know, what good is that
Speaker 3: doing anyone, including the player and the family. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's I think they get a little bit too wrapped
Speaker 3: up in it and you know, too focused on results
Speaker 3: and winning and too much of it and for themselves,
Speaker 3: and like, hey, what's best for the athletes here? What's
Speaker 3: most important? Because you know we're not winning the World
Speaker 3: Cup here at you know, nine you ten U, eleven U, right,
Speaker 3: but could we help develop a player that might help
Speaker 3: us win a World Cup in the future. Maybe, but
Speaker 3: not if they don't love the game.
Speaker 2: So, you know, when you have these talks with adults,
Speaker 2: and you know, if you have those talks with those
Speaker 2: kinds of those kinds of adults, hopefully it would sync
Speaker 2: in and when you're trying to impress upon them that
Speaker 2: it's okay to miss a couple of things. Are you
Speaker 2: the Are you the parent slash mentor that is encouraging
Speaker 2: playing multiple sports or are you a a one person
Speaker 2: you know sport mentor activist. How are you as a
Speaker 2: dad and how are you as a mentor when it
Speaker 2: comes to playing more than one sport and being seasonal
Speaker 2: about things.
Speaker 3: I love it, don't get me wrong. I love it
Speaker 3: and I encourage it, but I also know it's so difficult.
Speaker 3: It's so so difficult, and it's challenging, and it's expensive
Speaker 3: and it's a lot on families. So I honestly don't
Speaker 3: know how realistic it is. And I hate even saying that, right,
Speaker 3: because yes, it's possible. You know, if you're only doing
Speaker 3: rec to do seasonally, right, But even with my own son,
Speaker 3: we had to move on from rec baseball, especially here
Speaker 3: in Ohio. Rec baseball down the South is much different, yeah,
Speaker 3: but here it was you know, he was playing with
Speaker 3: kids who couldn't catch a ball, and you know, he's
Speaker 3: trying to really develop and get better and things, and
Speaker 3: so it was like, this isn't really helping him. He's
Speaker 3: not having fun going to practice doing this stuff. So
Speaker 3: we had to move on. And then when you get
Speaker 3: to a travel team, it's so difficult to play another sport.
Speaker 3: So as much as I encourage it, it's so unrealistic.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately that's the way it is right now, and so
Speaker 3: you know, I don't want to you know, yeah, you
Speaker 3: should play multiple sports, and when it's so challenging. And
Speaker 3: there are some players in high school that play multiple sports,
Speaker 3: which is great, and I see that, I even see
Speaker 3: it here locally, which is fantastic, But for high level
Speaker 3: athletes who are trying to get better, it's just so challenging,
Speaker 3: even from an age of like nine or ten. And
Speaker 3: so I feel for parents, and I feel for kids
Speaker 3: that wanted to play multiple sports but feel like they can't.
Speaker 1: So yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, and is this an opinion that you've developed
Speaker 2: over time more as a father to understand, Okay, it
Speaker 2: probably needs to be just locked down into one sport
Speaker 2: or was this something that has become something that you've
Speaker 2: discovered over time. Was there a moment where you're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it probably needs to be just one sport or was
Speaker 2: it something that you've kind of just figured out.
Speaker 3: I think down in Atlanta when we were trying to
Speaker 3: do NASA soccer and what was it east side baseball
Speaker 3: from my son. You know, we were trying to have
Speaker 3: him played multiple sports. And the commitment just from the parents,
Speaker 3: right driving him to one practice, getting him, taking him
Speaker 3: straight to the other practice, like having dinner in the
Speaker 3: car in between. You know, like, that's a lot. It's
Speaker 3: a lot on us, it's a lot on him, and
Speaker 3: you know, it's just challenging. As much as he loved
Speaker 3: playing both and I want him to play both, it
Speaker 3: was just a lot. And it only gets tougher as
Speaker 3: they get older. And so yes, I'm still a proponent,
Speaker 3: and I think it's great for athletes to play multiple sports.
Speaker 3: I really do believe that. Number one, it's you're less
Speaker 3: likely to get these injuries at a younger age from overuse.
Speaker 3: And number two, I really do believe that there's so
Speaker 3: many things from multiple sports that you can learn and
Speaker 3: use in your main sport that it's so beneficial. But
Speaker 3: it's tough. It's tough, and maybe as the second sport,
Speaker 3: you can play it recreationally and that's the that's the
Speaker 3: way you can do it. But it's impossible to play
Speaker 3: two travel teams or two you know, higher level sports.
Speaker 2: Is there a sport that you would recommend? Abby mentions
Speaker 2: that you know her son continued with dances as a
Speaker 2: sidebar to help out with soccer and skills and flexuly such.
Speaker 1: And that's a wild card that I would have never pictured.
Speaker 2: But it makes a whole lot of sense if there
Speaker 2: was a sport that you could pair with soccer, and
Speaker 2: like if soccer was your a number one, you know,
Speaker 2: it's like, okay, this is where my bread's buttered.
Speaker 1: I'm going down this road.
Speaker 2: What sport do you think would compliment soccer the most
Speaker 2: when it comes to what you want to carry with you,
Speaker 2: whether it's skill set, mental, all of those different aspects.
Speaker 2: If you want soccer to be your number one, what
Speaker 2: sport do you think would be a good compliment, at
Speaker 2: least recreationally to help things out, so you can still
Speaker 2: be number one in soccer, but still widen your skill set,
Speaker 2: be strong in other area those kinds of things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a great question, John, and I think that, honestly,
Speaker 3: there's probably ten sports that could help out, right, because
Speaker 3: I played baseball growing up, and you think, like, oh,
Speaker 3: how could baseball help soccer? Right? But I truly believe
Speaker 3: because in baseball I learned before soccer, what are you
Speaker 3: going to do with the ball when it comes to you? Right?
Speaker 3: Every pitch, every pitch, guys on base different things. Right
Speaker 3: where am I on the field? What am I going
Speaker 3: to do if the ball comes to me? What am
Speaker 3: I going to do if it's hit short, if it's
Speaker 3: hit to my left, it's hit to my right? Does
Speaker 3: that change what I'm going to do with the ball
Speaker 3: when I get it? Like all those little mental things
Speaker 3: that I'm thinking about, And then in soccer you start
Speaker 3: thinking about the same thing, Okay, thinking ahead, Right, what
Speaker 3: am I going to do with the ball if it
Speaker 3: comes over to me? And so now I'm reading the
Speaker 3: field a little bit more and seeing things, and so
Speaker 3: this is just one small example, Right, swimming could be
Speaker 3: so great for cardio, right if you have to do
Speaker 3: a winter sport. Right, even even karate you know jiu
Speaker 3: jitsu right for discipline and dance for flexibility. There's so
Speaker 3: many different sports that can have a benefit on your
Speaker 3: soccer play on or off the field, that it's there
Speaker 3: really is so many different ones. And I think that
Speaker 3: you can find something within every sport that can help
Speaker 3: you in another sport, including soccer.
Speaker 2: And well then you know there's golf to help you
Speaker 2: out with you know, geometry and.
Speaker 1: You know things like that. Well and no, this was
Speaker 1: no lie.
Speaker 2: I had a conversation with Molly McCarty and she's the
Speaker 2: girls head coach at Jefferson High School, and it hit
Speaker 2: me she's a geometry teacher on campus.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking to myself, it it hit in my head.
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a minute, You've got a geometry teacher
Speaker 2: teaching soccer, and so you know, a soccer coach teaching
Speaker 2: geometry and it's triangles and angles and approaches and all
Speaker 2: the and I'm like, my head basically exploded during the
Speaker 2: high school show because you had a geometry teacher who's
Speaker 2: focused on Okay, well, if your angle is this and
Speaker 2: this and this, then you have one hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: degrees and all this. And I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: it didn't quite hit me that it doesn't matter what
Speaker 2: you think might not be there to help affect you
Speaker 2: on the field or off. You mentioned as many as
Speaker 2: ten different sports and talking about ten different ways to
Speaker 2: do things. You don't know what class is going to
Speaker 2: help you out, you know, mentally to figure things out.
Speaker 2: Whether it's geometry, it's like, oh, angles here and being
Speaker 2: in triangles and passing drills and things like that. You
Speaker 2: never know where you're gonna get hit with something that
Speaker 2: you think is going to help you. And so having
Speaker 2: an open mind about all these things I think is
Speaker 2: just as important as figuring out what complimentary sport can
Speaker 2: help you.
Speaker 3: In soccer totally, because I see the comments on the
Speaker 3: side and yeah, you think about basketball, Okay, how do
Speaker 3: I have success against a player that's a foot taller
Speaker 3: than me? If I'm twelve years old and this kid's
Speaker 3: way developed, then I'm not yet right, how do I
Speaker 3: have success on a basketball or same thing in soccer? Right?
Speaker 1: Golf?
Speaker 3: I would think what I would get the most out
Speaker 3: of golf is how to bounce back from mistakes. Right,
Speaker 3: that happened so much on the golf course, Right, but
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what had just happened.
Speaker 3: How am I going to hit my next shot? Same
Speaker 3: thing in soccer? Right, get over your mistakes quick. So
Speaker 3: it's just endless, absolutely endless.
Speaker 2: Get you know. And that's another thing is just kind
Speaker 2: of the short term memory aspect of it all that
Speaker 2: since you open that door.
Speaker 1: Short term memory is something that I know.
Speaker 2: That we all would like to have, and it's probably
Speaker 2: one of the most difficult things to accomplish. How do
Speaker 2: you have short term memory but long term recall? If
Speaker 2: that makes any sense. It's like get rid of the mistake,
Speaker 2: but don't forget about the mistake. How difficult is it
Speaker 2: to accomplish both of those?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Very very you know. I think that what we
Speaker 3: try to encourage is forget it momentarily, right and allow
Speaker 3: yourself afterwards to go back and say, what can I
Speaker 3: learn from that? Right? Why did this occur? And how
Speaker 3: can I get better from it? So you bank it
Speaker 3: and say I'll come back to it, but refocus right
Speaker 3: now so that I don't make another mistake. And you know,
Speaker 3: things start to snowball here and your memory will go
Speaker 3: back to it for sure, right, especially whenever we make
Speaker 3: a mistake, right, it's it's ingrained real quick, so we
Speaker 3: can we can always go back to it after the game, right.
Speaker 3: You can always remember most of the mistakes you make,
Speaker 3: especially right after a game, and you can journal them
Speaker 3: at that point and learn from them and figure them out. Right.
Speaker 3: But you know, in the moment, we try to help
Speaker 3: our athletes definitely have that short term memory, that goldfish memory.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: being a goldfish and being a young player out there
Speaker 2: fort Landy United last time out you had Pedro Amador
Speaker 2: I think it was ninety minutes before the match, is like,
Speaker 2: I can't go, and he was, you know, viewed I
Speaker 2: can't go. And so what you what you end up
Speaker 2: doing is you end up tapping a seventeen year old
Speaker 2: in Dominic chong Qui who Ronnie Daila has a lot
Speaker 2: of faith in and he's grown, you know, incrementally and
Speaker 2: astronomically in just a handful of time that he's spent
Speaker 2: coming through the Academy, spent time with the Academy and
Speaker 2: the US and the two's and such. He's thrown into
Speaker 2: the pile and literally it is like, okay, Dom, you're starting.
Speaker 2: And so you have a seventeen year old going up
Speaker 2: against NYC in front of forty two thousand people, and yes,
Speaker 2: he does make a mistake that leads to a goal.
Speaker 2: But one of the things that you noticed is that
Speaker 2: the older players, the veteran players, Brad being one of them,
Speaker 2: you know, first thing they do, you know, when mistake happened,
Speaker 2: you put your arm around him, and it's like you're
Speaker 2: not yelling Ranning Raving sitting there and going you.
Speaker 1: Know what the bleepity bleep.
Speaker 2: It is literally a situation where a seventeen year old
Speaker 2: has been thrown into the pile and you've got to
Speaker 2: make sure that that goldfish mentality is there. He banks
Speaker 2: things and he ends up putting up fifty seven minutes
Speaker 2: and Matt Edwards plays his third position at the back
Speaker 2: four that he's done so far this year. You had
Speaker 2: two younger players come and step in a situation like that.
Speaker 2: But the advice that you're getting from a guy like
Speaker 2: Brad in that situation, I think is just his key
Speaker 2: to help bank.
Speaker 3: Everything, oh for sure. And that is such a challenging
Speaker 3: situation and such a learning opportunity for him because it's
Speaker 3: tough to find out you're going to start, you know,
Speaker 3: late like that in the first place. It's tough to
Speaker 3: come off a bench unexpectedly, and you learn real quick.
Speaker 3: Am I preprayed as as as much as I needed
Speaker 3: to be as if I was starting, And I'm not
Speaker 3: saying he was or he wasn't. Yeah, right, but I
Speaker 3: know from my experience and other guys, it's just different
Speaker 3: when you're not starting, right. I even ate more at
Speaker 3: pregame meal when I wasn't starting, because otherwise I'm starving,
Speaker 3: sitting on the bench not playing, and get to halftime,
Speaker 3: I'm so hungry, so I just eat, would eat more,
Speaker 3: and maybe I wouldn't do as much film if I knew, like, okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to play, like I don't need to
Speaker 3: know everything right or you know, whatever, it might be right,
Speaker 3: and so are you as prepared right? And so you
Speaker 3: learn these lessons and what is my body need, you know,
Speaker 3: to get ready real quick. I was talking to a
Speaker 3: mena the other day that came off the bench and
Speaker 3: had to play right away, and it's like, okay, when
Speaker 3: you've got two minutes to warm up, what does your
Speaker 3: body need? How do you get ready that quick? Right?
Speaker 3: Only you can figure that out through experience. And so,
Speaker 3: you know, for for Dom, like the experience of that,
Speaker 3: Forget forget the mistake on the field, but just the
Speaker 3: experience of okay, going from not starting to starting to preparation, quick, preparation,
Speaker 3: get ready, body change, mentally, you know, lock in all
Speaker 3: these types of things, and then obviously the play on
Speaker 3: the field. Right. This is invaluable for him and I'm
Speaker 3: glad that, you know, it wasn't a moment that we
Speaker 3: couldn't come back from, you know, but yeah, that's I
Speaker 3: think he's going to be stronger in the future because
Speaker 3: of a day like Saturday, as difficult as it probably
Speaker 3: was for him.
Speaker 2: A handful of minutes left here And so you got
Speaker 2: a team in Atlanta United that had a seven goal
Speaker 2: thriller chaos that happened last time out in a home
Speaker 2: stand and where are you looking in the times that
Speaker 2: you get to catch up and see what's going on
Speaker 2: with Atlanta United, whether it's highlights or three sixty or whatever.
Speaker 2: Now that they've come out the other side on a
Speaker 2: seven goal thriller, you got to learn a lot of things.
Speaker 2: You got to learn how to come back when you
Speaker 2: were down. You got to kind of figure things out
Speaker 2: a little bit on the fly on the field. What
Speaker 2: did your takeaways from Atlanty And I did?
Speaker 3: Y uh, it was it was fun and exciting to watch.
Speaker 3: I watched the game and yeah, it was awesome. I
Speaker 3: think the Bens was rocking. It was loud, and you know,
Speaker 3: I think that coming back in a game like that
Speaker 3: can really pump a team up more than you know
Speaker 3: if you just go out there and beat them two zero,
Speaker 3: three zero, because you know, he just knowing that you
Speaker 3: can come back from a deficit is so important. We weren't.
Speaker 3: We weren't very good at that when I was at Atlanta. Honestly,
Speaker 3: I don't you know, especially the first two years we
Speaker 3: just did. We didn't come back very often. You can
Speaker 3: look at the stats, the statistics, Yeah, that those things,
Speaker 3: but that's that's a really important thing for a group
Speaker 3: to have to have that mentality of knowing, Okay, we
Speaker 3: can come back here, We'll be all right. And I
Speaker 3: think that's what the front four can give you, the
Speaker 3: front five, you know, I think I tweeted after the
Speaker 3: game that I and I thought this prior to the game.
Speaker 3: I was watching the game prior and I can't remember
Speaker 3: who we played, and I thought, Maggie is not as
Speaker 3: involved as he needs to be. He needs to play
Speaker 3: centrally more. And I don't know what that does to
Speaker 3: the rest of the team or or whatever, but to
Speaker 3: get the best out of Meggie, and if he since
Speaker 3: he's your best player, I think he needs to play centrally.
Speaker 3: I get that playing him wide gets the most talent
Speaker 3: on the field, but you know, I think that we
Speaker 3: saw what having Meggie centrally can do.
Speaker 2: And you've now got FCD coming to town. And oh,
Speaker 2: it was the two two draw with Cincy at TQL.
Speaker 2: That was the one before that, and then the.
Speaker 3: Last home game, sorry I don't know the last home
Speaker 3: game that was.
Speaker 1: That was Messi and Friends.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: And so the two to one matchup against Messi and
Speaker 2: Friends and they go on the road to play at
Speaker 2: TQL and then they get the four to three crazy.
Speaker 2: Now they've got Luco Acosta coming to town this weekend
Speaker 2: for FCD. I'd like to ask a question to the
Speaker 2: Mogulan training. You now have your opponent in Open Cup
Speaker 2: and it is p Hop, the Portland Hearts a Pine.
Speaker 2: What is the what's the vibe with our I f
Speaker 2: C and p Hop next round of the Open Cup?
Speaker 3: Sir? Yeah, it's exciting. Yeah, I think it's it's great
Speaker 3: to have another team in New England. We played them
Speaker 3: a couple times actually in preseason and they're a good team.
Speaker 3: I think we tied both games, but they absolutely could
Speaker 3: have beat us, and so there they're a strong squad
Speaker 3: and so I'm happy for Portland. I'm happy they've got
Speaker 3: a good team and they've got a team in general.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it'll be exciting, It'll be fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, David with a question, did the Menace approach you
Speaker 2: to go with the All Star team?
Speaker 3: They did not. I think that word has gotten out
Speaker 3: there enough to know that I don't partake in such things.
Speaker 3: Because I was approached by a few different TST teams
Speaker 3: and guys reaching out and I told them I appreciate it, guys,
Speaker 3: but no, thank you, So no such thing for me.
Speaker 2: Okay, just checking, all right, what's the latest will beyond
Speaker 2: goals and beyond goals mentoring now that we're at spring
Speaker 2: break for some folks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've also got high school playoffs coming up, so
Speaker 3: you know that's exciting. We've got a bunch of athletes
Speaker 3: that we're trying to help get ready for playoffs and yeah,
Speaker 3: some MLS next tournaments coming up and showcases, So a
Speaker 3: bunch of athletes coming up to some big moments here
Speaker 3: over the next few weeks. So just helping them get prepared.
Speaker 2: Two hundred and fifty files of individual mentees that you
Speaker 2: and Greg are juggling and making sure that the world
Speaker 2: is a bunch better place. As always, my friend, it's
Speaker 2: great to see, great to catch up with what's going
Speaker 2: on at beyond goals and gets your vibes and your
Speaker 2: input about all the issues of the day when it
Speaker 2: comes to soccer and applying it to mentoring. Go enjoy
Speaker 2: your weekend and and make sure that you leave the
Speaker 2: room quietly so Deacon can continue to sleep right.
Speaker 3: Yes, have a great weekend, John.
Speaker 1: That's Michael Parkers.
Speaker 3: Everybody