Episode 51: An interview with Brian Kleiban, the LA Galaxy academy coach

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Yanks Abroad, Sports, Youth National Teams, U20 National Team, Mls, American Soccer, Soccer, U17 National Team, Men's National Team, Usmnt, Us Soccer

4.7 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

LA Galaxy's academy is one of the top talent centers in American soccer, and U19 head coach Brian Kleiban is in the middle of it. He's now got former players all over the U.S. boys' youth national teams, he's been to two straight Development Academy finals, and he joined the pod for a wide-ranging conversation on everything from the time he spied on Bielsa in the early 2000s, to the MLS draft, the U20 World Cup, the Development Academy, and his long-term ambitions as a coach.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuffed Podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velasquez and
0:06.1	Des Moines. We talk about U.S. men's soccer. Our guest today is Brian Clybin, the coach of the LA Galaxy Boys United Teams, which is one of the key
0:26.1	positions in the American Talent Development ecosystem, given the richness of the player pool in Southern
0:31.5	California and Clybin's success with the Galaxy.
0:34.3	Teams he's coached to have made the Development Academy final each of the last two years.
0:38.5	Former Cliven players Alex Mendez and Ulyannez are key members of the US U-20 squad, which was impressive in
0:44.6	Kakaaf World Cup qualifying, and the other youth national teams are also
0:48.5	regularly filled with Galaxy names, some of which we discussed.
0:52.0	Clybin and I talked on the phone earlier this week. names, some of which we discussed.
0:53.0	Clybin and I talked on the phone earlier this week.
0:55.0	Here's the chat.
0:57.0	Welcome, Brian, to the Scuff podcast.
0:59.0	Thanks for being here.
1:00.0	How are you today?
1:01.0	I'm good, Adam.
1:02.0	How are you, man? Thanks for having me. Yeah. Obviously big
1:07.2	following and you guys are doing good work man so so it's a pleasure to be on
1:10.7	this and contribute in any type of way.
1:14.0	Yeah, really appreciate it.
1:15.0	So you were at training just now, just a couple hours ago.
1:19.1	Why don't you?
1:20.1	Yeah, we train in the morning at the Galaxy.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Adam Belz, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Adam Belz and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.