Welcome to Soka 101, the show where we scratched the soccer itches, you never knew you had.

Today, we're responding to a question from a loyal listener who asks about coaching badges.

What are they? Why does soccer have them? How do you get them? Can you coach without them?

And are they actual badges that you can sew onto your clothes like you're a Boy Scout? I'd like to know that one.

My name's Ryan Bailey and earning

their Soccer 101 qualifications with flying colours today are Taylor Rockwell.

Hello. Graham Rutherford. Hello Ryan Bailey. And Joe Lowry. Hi Joe.

Ahoy. Before we get into it, Jets, a quick question to warm up the room. Have any of you ever been interested in coaching?

Have any of you ever coached?

Taylor, do I remember you have coached some young children before?

You do.

And they were very young when I most recently coached.

I coached for soccer shots, and that was like four years old to up for the ages that I was coaching. But before that, I was U10, U-11. So I got my D license. That was the extent of my coaching badges here in the U.S. You're licensed. You have experience for this question, Tate. I do. I do. We'll get to that in a second. Anyone else? Joe, any coaching? Yeah, I thought about it. I was really considering doing that maybe more, instead of diving into the media podcast, righty kind of space, didn't end up doing it in part because of some reasons we'll talk about later on, I guess. All right. And Graham, Scottish people very good at the go coaching. How about you? Nah, seems like hard work.

Cool. All right.

And for me, I have not because my children don't listen to me.

Why would young soccer players or even older ones is my logic.

Ryan, they might listen to you if you don't get them pet snakes from your yard.

Just throwing that out there.

Yeah, listen, I found a giant snake in my yard, and I suggested it as a pet to my kids.

They were not impressed.

They said, ew, gross, was the exact quote I got from them.

And wasn't this a little bit of a snake?

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