Bev Yanez on her coaching journey & Racing Louisville's date with destiny
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In 2011, after the Women's Professional Soccer league folded, Bev Yanez flew to Japan to hold onto her dreams of being a soccer player. That journey changed her life and set her on the path to being the person she is today.
On this week's Full Time Review, Jillian Sakovits sits down with Yanez for a special feature interview about her journey from National Women's Soccer League player to head coach of Racing Louisville. The conversation takes place days before the final match of the NWSL regular season that will decide if Racing clinches a spot in the playoffs for the first time in team history. How has Yanez developed as a coach? What are the secrets behind Racing's record-breaking season and the team's identity? How does Yanez balance being a mother and head coach?
PLUS: Jill breaks down what is at stake ahead of NWSL 'Decision Day' and the 1-2-3 of what to watch this weekend.
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUEST: Bev Yanez
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | It, again, it changed my life. It's the one thing that I always look back on. Where did I feel like my course kind of changed for the better? And it's, it always goes back to Japan. It's always somewhere I hold such a sincere, deep, heartfelt moment for the culture, for the country, for the style of football. But I was dealt with a lot of, you know, different things. And I feel that I just learned to adapt. I want to help players. I want players to feel in the environment that they can adapt. And it's one of our, you know, one of our pieces that we talk about a lot, whether that's on or off the field, right? Things don't always go as planned. |
| 0:38.5 | Life doesn't always go as planned. |
| 0:47.9 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:48.9 | It is Jillian Sackavit. |
| 0:49.9 | It's a very warm welcome to Friday's full-time focus. |
| 0:54.2 | Yeah, it is that time of year. |
| 0:55.7 | Decision Day is here, and we could not have snagged a better guest for this show. |
| 0:59.7 | We've got Racing Louisville head coach Bev Yannas talking to us about her journey from NWSL player to head coach and Louisville's date with Destiny coming up this weekend when they take on Bay FC at home |
| 1:12.3 | on what is the final day of the 2025 regular season. |
| 1:15.8 | It's simple. |
| 1:16.4 | It is a very simple recipe for racing. |
| 1:18.4 | It is win and they're in, and they will punch their first ever ticket to the NWSL postseason. |
| 1:23.8 | Plus, a little story time with Bev about how if it wasn't for the WPS folding and experiencing the game as it is played in Japan, then we maybe would never know Bevianas, the coach. |
| 1:35.4 | After that, I'll get you all focused for the upcoming weekend with my one, two, three of what to watch. |
| 1:47.6 | Okay, I'm so thrilled to welcome in today's guest. |
| 1:51.1 | We have live from Louisville, Kentucky, Bev Yanez. |
| 1:51.8 | Hey, Bev. |
| 1:52.9 | Hey, how are you? |
| 1:54.2 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:56.2 | What's going on in Bev's world today? |
| 1:58.3 | Not much. |
| 2:06.2 | Today is actually a day off for us. So, um, I have my mom in town helping us out. We do a grandma swap. Uh, my husband's mom lives with us during season to help us with the kids. And so we |
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