120. Bev Yanez - Gotham FC Assistant Coach & 6 Year NWSL Pro

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Today on the pod we have we have Gotham FC assistant Coach Bev Yanez. Bev had a nine-year professional playing career across five leagues. During her six-year NWSL career, she reached the playoffs four times and was a 2015 MVP nominee. She retired in 2019 and became the director of coaching and technical director for Juventus Academy in Silicon Valley. We loved hearing from Bev about the importance of understanding the game especially without the ball at your feet. She gives great advice to how players can elevate their game outside the norm. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	What's up, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back. We're soccer props and it's game time.
0:08.6	Hi, how are you? Hi, I'm good. How are you? We're good. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, of course.
0:14.3	Thank you guys for having me. Are you in Jersey right now? Yes, I'm here. We just finished up with
0:19.4	training it. So yeah, congrats on joining God the MC. That's so exciting. How has it been so far?
0:25.5	Thank you. It's been amazing. I'm extremely excited. I'm very grateful and thrilled for the
0:31.6	opportunity and it's been even better than I could have imagined. And so yes, it's just been
0:38.1	fantastic so far. What's the transition been like going from playing to now coaching?
0:44.9	Yeah, it's been so I retired and kind of stepped away from the game. I would say right before
0:50.8	COVID is around about the time frame and I kind of continued to pursue the coaching career and
0:56.4	got involved in a lot of different levels in regards to that. I would say my initial actual
1:01.9	coaching career kind of started when I was a player. I think the biggest experience was going
1:06.0	over to Japan at 24 years old and feeling like I didn't have a technical and tactical understanding
1:11.8	of the game and feeling like I was playing with players about 16, 17 years old at the professional
1:16.4	level over there that had a very good understanding. And so I would say the question mark kind of
1:20.8	hung over my head at that point of why don't I know these things and how have I been involved in
1:25.2	the WPS for two years and played at the ACC conference and still feel like my game's lacking in
1:30.0	these areas tremendously. So I would say my initial like coaching career started then of like wow,
1:35.6	I really want to be the best version of myself both on and off the pitch now as I continue
1:39.7	throughout my playing career. And then how do I give back? And I think it just kind of continued
1:44.0	to develop throughout my playing career. And then obviously stepping away from the game gave me
1:48.8	an opportunity to dive into what it would look like. This has been fantastic. The transition
1:56.4	has felt really good. I think a lot of my personality of who I was as a player transcends to who I
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