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The SoccerGirl Podcast

102. Jimmy Conrad - Soccer Parent Advice

The SoccerGirl Podcast

SoccerGirl

Sports

5.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Father’s Day is right around the corner so we decided to chat with our friend, USMNT alum Jimmy Conrad about the best soccer parent practices to follow when raising a soccer player. We discuss how to best communicate with your child to create a positive parent/player relationship and show your support. We also talk about best practices for speaking with your child’s coaches (and keep respective boundaries). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm flexing I guess a little bit. Yeah, it's nice. I just cleaned it for the first time in eight months. So it looks really good. How's that? Yeah, good. How are you guys? I'm excited. Thank you for the invite.

0:30.0

And it's for coming on anytime. We were just laughing. Carly just sent us your tweet when you wrote just drove to the beach with six little girls singing.

0:41.0

Amazing. It was amazing. I wish I had maybe you know when you guys put out a tweet like, oh, like 20 minutes later, it would have been fun to do to have this punchline. And I wish I would have wrote sent help instead of it was. Yeah. But but it still worked. It was I was being very sincere. And I should have acknowledged that.

0:58.0

That I may or may not have been singing at the top of my life. Yeah, don't pretend like you weren't thoroughly enjoying every second.

1:05.0

Red lights stop. Yeah, I mean, it's on 24 seven around here. I love it. It's awesome. You talked a little bit in our first podcast with you about being a parent and a coach. So we can definitely talk about that. Sure. We just love to get tips from you. What other soccer dads should do. What they shouldn't do.

1:25.0

Your perspective on it, even as a player, what you thought was helpful from parents and what was unhelpful.

1:31.0

Can we throw it back to the video I helped you guys make. Oh, we are going back to that statistical dad. I remember. Yeah. Back in March of 2015, they had seven shots on goal. That was literally the lie.

1:45.0

You were not going to be like a Nickelodeon character. We're like hard to that. You were. I feel like we're doing really well. That video was so funny. That was great. It's great. You guys killed it. We'll have to post that. You guys are crushing it too. By the way, it seems like you guys are crushing it. We're trying. Thank you. You're not for the Olympics. Getting excited for that. So hopefully the US don't do what they did last time. Yeah, that would be helpful if they at least got to the final. But.

2:15.0

The other teams are. I do a lot of NWSL coverage now for CBS. And I am tapped in and locked in than ever before. But. Yeah, just in general, as you guys know, the women's national teams around the world are getting a little bit better. So that's scary. Yeah.

2:32.0

So you cover the end of yourself for them. I'm one of many. I mean, they rightfully have a lot of female voices, but I come in. I'm the wagerian analyst. So I tell you what lines the bet on. That's me.

2:42.0

So I'm like, listen, Megan Rapinoe is the shit. And she's going to score a bunch of goals because that's it. I've come on like a drunk. I do drunk on.

2:49.0

That's the best. It is. It's pretty fun. It's pretty fun. So I enjoy it. And.

2:55.0

I actually do pretty well in the NWSL and WSL games. I feel like they're a little crazy. They're a little crazy. You think you got something down and then Portland Thorns win five zero.

3:04.0

You're like, what just happened? But who do you guys support? I guess I should ask you guys have a favorite team.

3:09.0

We always like get asked this question. I feel like the courage and use in dash.

3:15.0

I'm really liking Gotham. I just like their whole line. I like their rebrand. Their rebrand was really cool.

3:22.0

Yeah. So, so Freya, Freya, come the, come the manager. She's she's I'm getting my a license my coaching course.

3:31.0

And she's in it with me. So it's been cool to get to know her on a coaching level and then to see how well they've been performing the challenge cup and then now.

3:39.0

They don't score very many goals, but they're tough to break down. They, they keep possession. So I like, I like how she plays.

3:46.0

How is getting your a license? It's a, it's a struggle. Yeah. It's really hard. Yeah. It's hard. Have you taken it?

3:54.0

No, but I just like I work with a lot of coaches and just that one is not it's a lot.

4:00.0

It's it's really thorough. I had to actually back out and his hit pause because of some family stuff that came up, but.

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