 Good morning lads and lassies, Coach Javi here and this weekend I'm actually headed off to complete a coaching course. Coach Javi is doing his sea license, his United States Soccer Federation sea license. So I finished up the first week about two months ago and now I have to go back and finish up my testing phase. So basically all I have to do is run a training session and in two weeks they'll let me know whether Coach Javi is a tactical genius or an absolute muppet. Nobody here yet, Coach Javi is an overachiever, likes to get here early. Last one to leave as well. Just kidding. Today is the day that I actually present my session, I think I'm like fourth, there's like six people and then I'll get my session over with and then I'll just be observing, helping out and just playing if they need any players for the rest of the session but should be about 20 minutes that I get to present my session. I'm working on preventing the counter attack and I guess we'll see how it goes. Oh is this for your vlog? Yeah say hi to the vlog, Lauren. I love this game. What you got there, Lauren? So I'm done with my C license, got it out of the way. This weekend was literally just the assessment phase, all we had to do is go in there, run our training session, the instructors were not allowed to give us any feedback. We just have to wait two weeks to get our final grade and basically whether we passed or whether we failed but I felt pretty comfortable. I've done that session plenty of times already so I was relaxed, I didn't stress out so I think I did pretty well. Unfortunately they don't let you really record any of the sessions so I just grabbed a few clips but I couldn't actually show you guys the tactical components of it which I would have liked to but I got home, it was a long drive, it was about five hours and I was planning on just going home, editing the vlog and just finishing it there. It's a really nice day out, I want to go out, get some fitness in so I decided to come to the park, film a little training session, a little bit less formal than usual, I'm not going to go through any crazy details, just going to kind of show you guys the exercises so we'll get straight into it and I'll see you guys in a little bit. So a little bit less formal than my usual sessions, it was more of just, I just wanted to come out here, get some touches, do a little extra and also just film it so that you guys can have it in case you guys want to do the same thing. When I do this, everything I do with my left, I try and do with my right if I can. Focused on touches, simple stuff, lots of cover exercises, like usual it's always just lots of technical work. So while I was at the coaching course, since I figured you guys are always listening to me and you guys only ever see me in the vlogs and me in the videos and I'm the only one ever talking, I figured it would be a great opportunity to get the point of view from different coaches, to ask them questions, to see what their thoughts are so that you guys can also have different points of view and it's not just me talking and only what I think. So we were so busy, I couldn't really vlog much, we were on the field doing training sessions all day but I did ask them to answer one question for me. So I asked about five or six of them, what is the most valuable quality that you look for in a soccer player? It could have been anything about technical work, it could have been anything about personality, I just wanted their thoughts, their opinions, just so I could share it with you guys and these are coaches from all over the country, from different backgrounds that are coaching club, they're coaching university, they're coaching different soccer programs so I'm gonna put that here so you guys can see and then I'm gonna give you my response to that question as well after you watch the footage so let's go to the footage right now. I believe a soccer player has to have passion, he has to love the game, he has to appreciate what he has and I think once you have the passion everything else comes easy because you're not gonna give up, you're not gonna stop trying, you're gonna continue to try because you love the game so it comes from inside you. The most important thing I look for is soccer IQ, I like all my plays to have a good understanding of the game so when we work on things in practices they understand where I'm coming from. The most important thing I look for in a soccer player is their decision-making ability on and off of the field and just their general love for the game. So the most important thing that I look for in a soccer player is a two-footed player, somebody who can use their left foot and right foot proficiently on the field and are comfortable using both, they're not gonna avoid using that foot. In the game there are so many situations where players today struggle because they can only use that one foot so I'm really adamant that my players are comfortable using both feet. It's a back-effort for me, it's really important that you're willing to really just work on your game, every aspect of your game, all your time, willing to improve. That's the main thing I look for in a player. I'd say tenacity, I like players that have a good work rate, regards their position, sometimes position-specific attackers tend not to be too great defensively, defenders tend not to attack as much, I think a whole round player like that will do a job anywhere on the field for him, and adaptability as well. So work rate and adaptability, me personally, my philosophy is I'd rather take a player that I know will always give me a hundred and ten percent rather than maybe gifted or talented player that it blows hot and cold. If I had to pick just one thing, the most important thing, it would have to be their decision making and I know I've talked about this before, but soccer is played up here, yes it's a physical game, but the best soccer players in the world aren't the biggest, they're not the strongest, they're not the fastest, they're the guys who up here their brain is working twice as fast as everybody else around them. So that's my thoughts on the question, hope you guys like the response from all the other coaches, and I think this is where I'm going to end the video for today, sorry but last thing guys, make sure you subscribe, make sure you hit that like button, I put in a lot and lot of work to make all these videos with all the edits, it takes a long time after it's all said and done, it takes a while, so I would really appreciate it if you guys subscribed, if you guys shared my channel or the videos with any of your friends, but that's it guys, I appreciate it, I'll talk to you guys soon and we'll see ya.