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I.E In Friends

Ep. 88 - Playing for Mexico and LAFC! Pro Soccer Player at 16! ft. Christian Torres

I.E In Friends

Sonoro | Saul V Gomez, Aaron Caraveo

Soccer, Sports, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.7577 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

At the early age of 16 Christian Torres signed with LAFC where he quickly made his mark by breaking records, he then got called up to Mexico’s U20 team! He shared his journey, advice, and gave us an inside look into the life of a professional futbol player! Hope you enjoy!   Follow Christian Here! https://www.instagram.com/christiandomtorres/   Follow I.E In Friends here: https://linktr.ee/IEinFriends   Get 25% OFF + Free shipping with promo code IEINFRIENDS at liquid-iv.com   Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code IEFRIENDS at MANSCAPED.com!   Take The Mic! https://forms.gle/nSf7f2YKqSgxRBur8   Subscribe to us Patreon for exclusive episodes! https://www.patreon.com/ieinfriends   Saul V Gomez Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/saulvgomez/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Saulvgomez_   Cesar Sotelo Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iknowcesar Twitter - https://twitter.com/Caesar__0   Aaron Caraveo Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/airball_10/ twitter - https://twitter.com/aaron_caraveo   Time Stamps! 00:00:00 - Being a Championship player at 18 years old 00:02:05 - The atmosphere at the MLS final 00:03:40 - Being teammates with great superstars 00:05:30 - Learning languages from all around the world 00:08:51 - Manscaped 00:11:57 - Can you hear your teammates while playing in stadiums 00:13:00 - Being eliminated by Guatemala 00:16:00 - Beefing with with rival teammates 00:18:30 - Advice from bigger players 00:20:00 - When did you know you’ll be a pro 00:22:40 - Being called up to the Mexican national team 00:25:30 - How to be done a professional soccer player 00:29:30 - Advice to high schoolers trying to go pro  00:34:20 - Christian’s FIFA player card 00:39:45 - Balancing High School and soccer  00:46:00 - The least hyped World Cup 00:52:12 - Messi and Ronaldo to the MLS?! 00:55:44 - How to international trades work 00:58:00 - Is LAFC Chivas USA? 01:00:20 - Take The Mic 01:11:25 - Is finding love harder as a pro player 01:15:55 - What not to take to Friendsgiving 01:19:30 - UPS Truck loses students SAT tests 01:23:40 - Having your own highlight videos on YouTube 01:25:00 - Pregame ritual 01:27:00 - High school coach was a hater 01:30:00 - Weirdest fan interaction 01:32:00 - Game Hecklers 01:33:40 - Getting the call that you’re a professional soccer player 01:35:55 - Advice on chasing your dreams 01:36:48 - Having no doubt

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0:00.0

What's up friends?

0:07.0

Welcome back to I.E.M. Friends.

0:10.0

My name is Saul Gomez.

0:11.0

My name is Caesar.

0:12.0

My name is I should have been in the league too.

0:14.0

And today is very special guests.

0:17.0

We are in the presence of a champion.

0:20.0

We're here with Christian Torres. What's up, Torres. What's up, man. Thank you for joining us. We're super excited. Congratulations. L. L.A.S. Cup champions. Yeah. That's right. Congratulations, man. How does that, well, actually, not even L.A.F.C. You also play for the U20 Seleixio Mexicana. Yeah Which is fucking wild to be 18 Yeah, 8, actually, not even L-AFC. You also play for the U-20 Seleixio Mexicana, which is fucking wild to be...

0:40.3

And you're 18. How does this like hearing all of that, does, like, what does that make you feel like, I'm him? Like, you feel like I'm him. Like, I'm him.

0:49.4

Well, first off, thank you guys for having me. It feels good to be here. You know, like, Tani feels kind of surreal. I'll be honest, it feels a little bit bit bittersweet because, like, I wasn't directly involved with LAFC for this year. So, like, I was more with the Vegas program. Yeah. So, like, part of me is, like, I love that we won, but then part of me was like, I want more. So like obviously that's my focus, but it feels great to be a champion.

1:13.3

I'm gonna be honest.

1:14.3

Yeah, you're on that pedestal, no, that when you were like on that, during that match, it was on, what is the pedestal? No, that's what it's called? Yeah, whatever. The ceremony thing? Oh my gosh. Yeah. how but I always find myself behind Vela and like people always like DM me like oh you're

1:27.9

behind Vela like that's just oh yeahE like, oh, you're behind Vela.

1:28.4

Like that's just, oh, it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. Like stay, follow this footsteps. I'm like, all right. So like, it's cool. That game, first of all, that game, it's already been said it's been the best game in MLS history. What a fucking game to be. you were there at that stadium how of, bro, even like, even my mom's not too crazy into soccer, but she was going crazy too. It was a wild-ass fucking game. Yeah, it's crazy because usually like finals are sometimes boring. Yeah, they're usually boring. Because both teams are so reserved. Yeah. They're like not even pushing up a lot everyone's kind of playing

2:01.0

defensive but I don't know this game was like now we're we're both going all out it was crazy

2:06.0

like so obviously we scored first oh stable crazy all you see is people throwing beer everything and

2:12.6

but thankfully we sit on the top so like we were we were fine from the beer. Yeah, yeah. So that happened.

2:17.9

But then obviously, as the game went on or whatever, when they scored, when they tied it up and we scored again or however it went, I don't remember how it went. Yeah. But whenever they took the lead, the stadium was quiet. Really? Yeah. It was just silence. People started leaving. So I actually, i came with um and you guys know

2:36.1

Diego FIFA i came with my family my my two parents and i came with uh trainer from out here in

2:41.1

fontana um his name's chuvi uh i came with them and they were telling me that chuvie had left

2:47.8

like right after they scored the third goal yeah yeah because he had to go get his go get his car like TJ when he wanted to beat traffic. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. And then all of a sudden, you just see cheeky get the ball down the line and cross it. And all you see is the bail just. It had to be bell, bro. Oh, my God. It had to be bell. I went crazy. I was going crazy. We had we had a fucking ADT guy here setting up cameras and he was scared. Yeah, I scare the fuck out. Bro. And it's a, yeah, Bell just comes in clutch in these moments and it's wild because like he's known for it. Yeah, and there's a lot of criticism because they weren't they weren't playing Bell like the whole like he didn't really play that much. And like, I just had a feeling I was like something's going to happen.

3:42.5

And you saw the moment he went to the game like the moment Gareth went into the game he was like I think he connected every pass like people are on his people on his back and he was just jumping out of pressure like easy I was like exactly but this guys on a different level have you talked to him he was fit I i think i think he is fit i mean like i said i don't i don't train with lafc but like i heard that he was

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