 Hello coach Javi here, and we finally hit 20,000 on YouTube, and I'm joined by the one the only legend Stina and figured she could help me out do the Q&A. So she's got all the questions. I'm gonna do my best to answer them and Yeah, let's get the show on the road. What maybe you want to start YouTube? I always thought I could do the YouTube thing like I always watch people like vlogging and stuff And I always thought I could do it. I just never had anything to do it For or a reason to do it figured I do a lot of individual sessions. So might as well record them and Show them to the world. Are you gonna continue to train yourself? The reason I haven't done a train yourself video in a while is because I ran out of topics So I can only do so many train yourself topics Where it's just you and you can't have any defenders or you can't have anybody helping you out I might I might restart it later, but for now I think We're not gonna be doing any more train yourself for the moment. Do you enjoy what you do? Do I enjoy what I do? I Think so because if I didn't Stina would not have to tell me to get a life every other day Yeah, every every single day that I wake up I'm like already looking forward to getting into the office getting all my things ready for the day planning my sessions And then by the time I get home. I'm already starting to think about the next day and stuff So I never take it for granted. But yes, I absolutely love what I do every single minute of every single day How come the green arrow and you have never been seen together in the same place at the same time? I don't know Maybe it's cuz I am the green arrow What position did you play? Naturally, I was a winger and towards the last two years of college I played I played up top and I was just because of our style. Usually I played down the wing because I was pretty quick What's your best advice for young players? Oh? Best advice for young players be realistic with your goals and Take it one step at a time a lot of people always ask me what they can do to go pro and the reality is It's very very difficult to do it people think that it's easy to get from here to here in Like one day, so just take it one step at a time and be realistic with your goals. What's your favorite premium? What is your favorite premium come on mate? If you guys don't know the answer to this question already you guys have not been following along the channel my favorite team in the Premier League is What was your most memorable college goal ever ooh That's a good question. These are all good questions There's two goals that were my my most memorable in college The first one was my very first goal that I scored it was my freshman year was like five games in I hadn't scored The game was in Chicago So all my family members could go and that was like the only game of my college career that all my family members all my friends could go to we were tied 1-1 and 83rd or 84th minute somewhere around there I Scored a goal and it was a game winner and it was in front of all my friends all my family who were on the sidelines And I'll put the video of that goal because I have it if you watch how excited like my dad is my dad's like on the Sideline just ready to go in and start celebrating with me. You could tell he was like trying to hold himself back But that was one of my most memorable goals the second one probably the most memorable goal was Opening round of national tournament. We were down by one It was absolutely freezing. It was probably like 13 degrees Fahrenheit. I don't know what that is in Celsius Gotta be like negative 300 and so it's easy. There was 45 seconds left and One of my friends scored the the goal to tie to send us into overtime with 45 seconds left on the clock and In overtime golden goal I'll show you the goal, but it was the golden goal to help us get to the sweet 16 of the national tournament What do you think you'll be doing in 20 years? What will I be doing in 20 years? I'll have my own Division one soccer program whether it's men or women. I'll be coaching my own Program if you would have asked me this a year ago. My answer would have been different but now I'll be running a lot of camps around the country coach hobby camps and And yeah, I'm just still doing the exact same thing that I'm doing right now. Basically, we'll practice every day make me better We'll practice every day make you better. Yes Why did you retire from things? Why did I retire from playing dang here comes a long story right here? Everybody asked me this is like why did you retire? Why did you start playing Sunday League and? Why if you're if you're still so young, why didn't you pursue the dream? well The reality is I realized that I Loved coaching more than I loved playing like playing for me going through the season All the things that encompassed playing soccer Didn't give me the same feeling as when I was out there coaching and directing players and guiding players and When I was being able to coach the big picture, I guess simple answer would be My passion for coaching outgrew my passion for playing simple enough What is your personal favorite? The best cleat I remember wearing where the T90 lasers T90 lasers those are classics like the first ones that came out and had the black thing that was like the newest technology ever invented Those were my favorite. Those are classics. Would you ever do training sessions with subscribers? Yes I have and yes, but it would be in the form of soccer camps for the most part Are you down to do a Am I down to do a collab? Oh, yes collab with Matt Sheldon. Um, I do follow along with this channel I like the guy. He's a good guy. So if I ever could do a collab with him, I probably would I'm in the middle of coaching He's in the middle of playing and all that. I'm not sure if it will work out right now But yes Matt Sheldon is I like the guys. I like the guys stuff Would you ever let someone learn about your philosophy in soccer? My coaching philosophy my coaching philosophy is based around a few things one every soccer player Can learn and get better No matter how bad you are everyone has the potential to develop and two My philosophy is based around my players. So Coaching is a job in which it has to be completely selfless So whatever I'm doing as long as it's helping whoever I'm supposed to be helping in the way that they need help I'm doing my job. So it's not about me, but it's about the players So I think once you as a coach once you realize that that Your job is literally to make Good soccer players and good people and help them out in any way that they need help. I think You'll do your job well. I Mean I can go into detail about my coaching philosophy, but I think those are the basics Those are the basics of what it's what it revolves around I've been doing some research and it seems like most colleges Colleges are looking for a master's degree. Is that something that you have and what are your thoughts on that? It is Highly recommended for most college jobs that you have a master's degree Or that you pursue it while you're there. So for me, I am doing my master's degree right now I have my bachelor's in physical education and health and I'm pursuing my master's in sports pedagogy Which is just a fancy word for like sports education So I'm doing that now and I should have that completed by the end of Spring what advice do you have for you coach trying to make it bigger? One is just get as many licenses and certificates that you can get because that always looks good on a resume And it's really good education attend the convention if you can attend the convention the coaches convention and Volunteer or join and coach as many teams as you possibly can all different age groups Go out and get as much coaching experience as you possibly can because it'll show you how to coach at different levels And it'll look really really good on a resume Can you explain your whole playing career from youth to professional? Okay, so I should have some clips that I can insert while I'm talking I started playing in a club when I was eight years old. It was like our local club team It was really inexpensive compared to all the other clubs that were around and at that time My family couldn't pay thousands of dollars to play on a big club team. So we settled for that. It was fun I enjoyed it. I played on that club team was the Munderland strikers played on that club team from U9 until I got into high school When I got into high school Believe it or not coach Javi played three years as a goalie as a goalkeeper Freshman year to junior year. I played as a goalkeeper junior year. I realized I didn't want to play goalkeeper anymore, and I had no idea why I was playing goalkeeper in the first place So I played forward Played forward my senior year, and then I got scouted and recruited to play in college My senior year. I went to Ashford University Which was a small NAIA school in Iowa? I played there my four years. I played Semi-pro, which I played to the Quad City Eagles for two seasons And then I played for Detroit City FC So I know a few of you guys have commented that you know where Detroit City FC is and you guys have seen the team and stuff Played there for two seasons, and then it was after that that I decided to retire but Yeah, I mean that's it right Sweet so I hope you guys like the Q&A. I wanted to give you guys some more background information on me so I hope I answered a lot of the questions that you guys have had and I want to do another Q&A, but instead of it being about me or the coaching lifestyle I wanted to do the playing lifestyle and from a player's perspective, so figured Stina could do a Q&A soon. She's from Norway, so she came to play in the States from Norway to play in college So you guys can ask her what the process was like you guys can ask her basically any questions about being a Division 1 college soccer player And we'll do that when we hit 30 We'll do that when we hit 30,000 subscribers. We just hit 20 So when we get to 30,000 subscribers, we will do a Q&A I'll read the questions and she can answer them and Yeah, so any questions you guys have about playing About getting to playing college about what it's like to be a Division 1 soccer player comment those down below on this video And I'll have Stina answer those When we hit 30,000 subscribers fair all right, well once again, thank you guys and All right, you want to say bye? Peace people. See you Boom