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How Tom Brady Created A System To Exceed Expectations?

The #AskASocerPro show is a Live video podcast where 11 year MLS vet and Mental Strength Coach Quincy Amarikwa dives into the mentalities of highly successful individuals both on and off the pitch. In this weeks episode Quincy Amarikwa discussed about what is the mental strength league, how does he prevent over thinking, his advice on becoming a pro and more.

Time Stamps https://www.perfectsoccerskills.com/

0:00-3:05 The #AskASoccer ball Pro Show ep 104 is back with another Mental Strength Episode!

3:06-5:10 What is the Mental Strength League?

5:11-7:09 Quincy’s Interview w/ WNBA Champion Natasha Cloud for #IAMTHEDREAM

7:15-9:45 Some Of What Quincy Has Learned On #AmarikwaAcres During This Offseason

10:12-12:30 Have you listened to ep 40 of the Perfect Soccer Ball Podcast featuring Aerial Chavarin?

12:45-20:22 How does Quincy prevent over thinking? @theoneknownasanthony

21:45-24:34 How Do You Learn How To Learn? @willthompson2021

21:45-24:34 What Cross-Training Did Quincy Focus On During The Pandemic?@willthompson2021

26:11-30:35 How To Exceed Expectations? @yojxrdan

26:11-30:35 How Tom Brady Created A System To Exceed Expectations? @yojxrdan

30:54-32:39 Quincy has been staying active with the NFLPA and New York Red Bulls

32:40-33:51 Did you know Quincy played with the New York Redbulls?

33:52-35:57 Quincy is beginning to see the impact from Black Players for Change come to light

37:20-41:05 What to do when overthinking is a problem with your game? @theoneknownasanthony

42:40-46:45 Quincy’s Advice On Becoming A Pro Soccer Ball Player @ic156796

44:09-46:45 What’s Worse Than Not Having Access To Resources?

46:57-50:41 Is the Perfect Soccer Ball App on the way?

52:58-56:25 Has Quincy been reading any books lately? @jjajj123

56:25-59:46 Importance of restructuring time to achieve short, and long term goals #Frequincy

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Quincy Amarikwa (00:00):

We're all here to ride the MSL waves. You mentioned strength lead. I'd like to welcome you to another episode of the hashtag ask eight soccer pro. Let's see. Oh, that's what I was going to Dean. What is going on? Everyone. Shannon. What's happening, Adam. Welcome the one known as Anthony. What's up, bro, for like, I haven't seen you in a bit, uh, C money, TX, M a L a Y. Joined George. What's going on, man. How's life been treating you, um, Liverpool app fan page set back with this profile. What up dropping the I'm in your head, a mood.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:53):

You know what it is? Um, I feel like I can't invert the images on the screen anymore. It used to be, you could, you could like switch back and forth and put that one up in the corner, but it doesn't, it's not letting me do that anymore. Or can I switch it around? Nope, I guess. I don't know. It's not letting me do that. And it makes it harder for me to see the comments on the page, but whatevs Diego. Welcome. Braheem welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Connor Johnson joined in what's happening in, um, uh, the one on his Anthony. He said, you know, I'm always out here putting in work, LOL training with my team out here in the Bay area called Dublin Celtic. Yes. Love that. Um, and as everybody is joined in here, I don't know if you could hear my, my boys screaming in the background there.

Quincy Amarikwa (01:53):

Um, we'll let everybody start joining in here and then we'll kick it off. Cause you guys know what I do now with the new intro or episode, what are we ever said? One Oh four, just getting dialed in. There's been just a, a Riddick RADONC you list amount of stuff going on. I'm happy to get into kind of updates on what's been going on, uh, what, what movements are happening and, uh, cover last week, last week episodes, what went out this week and all that stuff. So if you guys are excited for today's episode keeps spamming that heart button, uh, drop the mind and your head emojis and drop a couple of questions. We'll have a classic MSL, uh, episode today with some just, uh, life updates, uh, uh, perfect soccer updates and all, all of that in between and let's get going. So everybody welcome to another episode of the hashtag.

Quincy Amarikwa (02:52):

Ask a soccer pro show. I'm your host twelve-year pro MLS cup champion, MLS comeback player of the year, UC Davis hall of fame member, black players for change founder and MSL coach Quincy America. You might be asking yourself, what is the MSL? You might be asking yourself, a lot of you already know what it is, but it is what we're here to discuss and break down every Thursday, 6:00 PM, PST 9:00 PM EST on the perfect underscore soccer, Instagram account, the mental strength league, um, in your head, uh, if those of you who are already down in MSL, you already know what it is, but for those of you who are just now tuning into this frequency, it's a game of mental 40 chest where you're either aware and an active participant or you're upon in the game, steady getting played. And, uh, that's what we're here to discuss, break down and, uh, you know, just crush here in 2021 and beyond.

Quincy Amarikwa (03:51):

Um, but for those of you who do not know what the MSL is, it is the mindset you need to accomplish your goals. You then should be asking yourself, why do you need to have this mindset? So you can learn how to learn, why learn, how to learn so you can know how, and when you are stopping yourself from achieving your goals and what to do about it. And when does this mindset start? The moment you decide to take responsibility for where you are, even if where you are, isn't your fault and put forth a plan to learn what you need to, to continue forward. So if you guys are ready for today's episode, I'm going to need you guys to continue to spam that hard button, dropping them. I'm in your head emojis for the MSL lesion out there, and I'm going to kick it off with today's sponsor a big shout out to Liverpool fan page for dropping the link below because today's episode is brought to you by perfect soccer.

Quincy Amarikwa (04:39):

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Quincy Amarikwa (05:26):

We had a great conversation. She's been doing a lot of amazing work in the, um, in, in just the social justice space, but as well as in the WBA, um, that was my first time meeting with meeting her and having a conversation. She's a great, uh, great has a great personality, great individual, great human. And we had a real fun, open and honest conversation. So if you guys didn't check that out, I highly recommend you do so. Um, she's a fall fellow champion. She won the WMB championship in 2000. Um, did anybody on the live right now happened to catch that replay or join in live? If so, what were your thoughts or takeaways from it? See, live or pull dropped them. I'm in your head emojis jaw one, two, three double Hyman. You're headed Joe emojis. J K underscore. Oh, 23. I have not seen you or yeah, I feel like I haven't seen you in a bit.

Quincy Amarikwa (06:21):

How have you been Timmy pig joining in Hannah joined us last week for last week's episode to break down why she is underrated and you guys know what that is all about. If you haven't checked out episode, what is that one Oh three that should be up on perfect soccer skills.com for you guys to check out. Um, while you guys are filling that out, going through everyone's comments and everyone's spamming that heart button loving that. Um, I was, I was, Oh, give some love to us soccer foundation for resharing, the, um, the conversation I had with, uh, Natasha as well as players coalition. They, they reshared as well too. So, um, shout out to everybody who checked that out in tuned in, I think that that was a, that was a big one. So, uh, let's see. Uh, George has said living the good life, um, competing in my first jujitsu tournament since 2006, next Friday,

Quincy Amarikwa (07:21):

Yo that's what's up,

Quincy Amarikwa (07:23):

You know, thinking of, uh, mixed martial arts as Serena shared with me a, um, a card she got from, uh, someone out here locally who, who runs a mixed martial arts gym. I, I definitely want to get back in to that. Uh, it's great. Off-season cross training. Um, and you guys know, since I'm in my free agency, again, welcome to the free agency. It's the year, the frequency in free agency. Uh, we'll see where I end up and, uh, doing a lot of cross training out on the ranch, you know, America acres doing a little cattle ranch in cattle farming, or we're looking into getting some horses here soon. We just did the, um, I got super deep into, uh, solar grid system. My father just got back to me about an SMA inverter that we were trying to figure out cause that tripped, um, Oh, so much going on, learn how to use Bobcat's.

Quincy Amarikwa (08:17):

We, we had bought a tractor, uh, eventually realized that it might make more sense for us to get, uh, a new, a newer one or trade in the one that we got me about, uh, dump trailers who, and checked out that, uh, the, who everyone, it has been a very productive off season and I'm excited to share a lot of the stuff that I've learned, uh, going real deep in the research in a bunch of other industries and in spaces that we can take the MSL into and that we can take, we have taken the MSL mindset into. So I'm, I'm excited for not only, you know, here in the short-term, but the long-term, especially the MSL lesion out there, repping the brand super hard, buying your merch. I've been seeing a lot more, um, orders coming in through the perfect soccer skills.com store. Um, I know people are still learning more about the soccer subscription, previous offers subscription and what that comes with.

Quincy Amarikwa (09:14):

Um, if you're interested in getting it, but you you're hesitant and you don't know why, or you don't, you haven't made that commitment yet. I'd love to get some of you guys' feedback as to why you haven't made the leap. What is it that you need to see, or what would you like to have as a part of the, a part of the program? Um, and, uh, any of you who have purchased or plan to purchase, please, uh, let us know why you're choosing to purchase, why you want to purchase in, um, uh, what you find of value of it. Let's see, uh, George said hashtag MSL at any age, you are more than correct. No cap, no cap coming from George ever. Um, Liverpool said Serena is in here, LOL. Yes, she is. She dropped in. So hopefully she had, uh, on, I didn't, I, I was saying that what she had shared with me, um, earlier, uh, what else did I want to also bring up?

Quincy Amarikwa (10:10):

Oh, okay. Yeah, if you guys hadn't checked out, um, the perfect soccer podcast was an episode 40. So for those who don't know, um, Paul has been, uh, helping me host the perfect soccer podcast for over a year. Now we've got 40, 40 published episodes. We've got a couple in the pipeline. I'll need to get the short list of who to be on the lookout for, but Ariel, um, or airy am I saying her name? Right? Ariel, Ariel. Uh, I'm butchering it. Uh, but I, I listened to her episode. It was, it was, it was, it was dope. So if you guys haven't checked that out, make sure you listen to that. I'm even going back and re listening to old episodes are not old. Episodes are not old because it's evergreen. Um, and you know what it is here at the MSL mindset. There's always something you can learn on the second, go around.

Quincy Amarikwa (11:02):

The perfect soccer platform just gets more and more valuable. The more time you spend on it, because you can, you can relearn from multiple angles from multiple pros. Um, over a long duration of time is making me realize like, um, I'm going back. And, uh, I, I was listening to, so, uh, Jalen, uh, was just re re posted on the perfect soccer account as well to, I forget what episode he was, was just talking about just like being in different positions in the organization and what he's seen over time. Definitely check, check that out. Um, and you guys know what I always talk to you about practice. I practice what I preach and if I don't, then I'm preaching to myself as well too. Cause I, I need reminders. I've been going back and re listening to some old, uh, ASCA soccer pro show episodes. I just recently really listened to, um, was it episode 56 with Earl Edwards Jr. On how not to be selfish. That was a solid episode and a great conversation. Um, a lot of insight, a lot of knowledge bombs. Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (12:11):

Whew. Yeah,

Quincy Amarikwa (12:13):

That's what I'm saying. I'm trying to do a better job of giving you guys updates of like all the stuff and content and things that are available. Cause it's just like, we just been over delivering value, leaving it, every exchange, having given more than we received for so long that that's just normal for us. You know what I mean? Yeah. You guys know what it is though. A quadruple I'm in your head. Emoji is dropped by J J a J J one, two, three. Uh, the Bronx blues dropped in with the Jesus' hands. Um, the one known as Anthony, uh, dropped a question. What do you do to prevent overthinking? Um, that's a big one. Let's see. So that was a process that took me a real long time to kind of I'll say perfect for lack of a better term. I won't say that it's

Quincy Amarikwa (13:09):

Yeah,

Quincy Amarikwa (13:11):

I won't say that. It's perfect, but it works for me. Right? So I tend to be someone who has to learn the hard way I got to learn the tough lesson because that's where it really sinks in. But I have to learn the hard way because I'm willing to do the work to, to figure it out for myself. Uh, not everybody takes that same approach and I don't necessarily recommend everybody take that same approach because sometimes a lot of the times you're, you're doing work that you realize is unnecessary in the end. But for someone like myself, I have to do a lot of quote unquote, unnecessary work to figure out what is necessary and what is valuable. So thinking more of like mining for gold, right? You're going to, you're going to end up digging a whole lot of dirt that you don't use to look for those nuggets of gold, where all the value is. Right. And that's how most people look at it. Uh, well the dirt isn't valuable. I'm looking for the nuggets of gold. Well, for me, I know the nuggets of gold are in there. I'm looking for the value in the dirt. How can I leverage and make digging the dirt worth my time? And if I happen to find nuggets of gold along the way, that's just additional bonus.

Quincy Amarikwa (14:34):

Yeah. That's an additional bonus. And if you, if you approach it that way, you're always working, but you're working towards you're while you're working, you're providing and creating value along the way. So you might not find those golden nuggets that you, you, you set out to, or you think that you'll find in this, in this area or this hole or this mine, but at least in the process of digging and doing that, you're creating jobs, you're creating, um, you're, you're creating opportunity. You're creating value, you're creating, um, insight. Um, and, and, and things that other people can take away. Even if what they're taking away is this mine, isn't the best place for me to find what I'm looking for, which is value in itself. Right. Uh, we talked a lot about it last year, 2020 was about the vision. I think a lot of people got woken up to a lot of new things, systems, processes, um, opportunities that they might've been blind to you before, or, or, uh, they were scared to try.

Quincy Amarikwa (15:37):

And, um, I think that's create a lot of new space for people to kind of explore and figure themselves out and, and having, uh, a platform and, and community where you can, you can do that and, and learn and grow. And that's part of the process and, uh, leave and come back and ride that MSL wave. That's what we're, that's what we're really doing here. So I appreciate everybody who's been along for it. And I say all that to set context as to you decide what overthinking is for you. So you get to the point where you feel it's worth, it's worth the effort, or it's no longer worth the effort. And, and the way that I've found to do that is, is, uh, is what I'm thinking through in the belief is what I'm thinking through, going to help me accomplish the task at hand, or is it going to slow me down?

Quincy Amarikwa (16:47):

Is it going to slow me down? And, and then it's, is, is it slowing if it's slowing me down, is going slower at this point in time of benefit or advantageous to me, or is it to my detriment? And, and that's something that comes with experience. And that's what we really talk about here on the show is how to tap into your experiences and increase your number of experiences. So you can, you can leverage those experiences to, uh, accelerate your learning and, uh, become more productive in a more, uh, and contribute, be a, you know, be a contributing human to providing value, being more sustainable. And self-sufficient so, uh, I know that was a good question because that opened up a kind of a lot of directions. You can take it. And I think that's the main point of it. Overthinking is when you you're taking it to a direction that there's no longer any you there's, no, you're not seeing any way in which it's a benefit to you, but I spent a lot of time in that space, in the space of where you can't see where it would be of any benefit to me or you at that point in time and figured out how to build in that space.

Quincy Amarikwa (18:24):

Because in my mind, I thought, okay, if we can figure out ways to be productive here and to find the silver lining in the positive, uh, positive, uh, aspect of being in this space, then I believe that will be a space that will be a value to people who end up getting there in one way or another over the course of their time in life and online, right? So we're here to evlv.online and, um, you know, it's a paradigm shift that I believe happened in humanity, and we're all going through like an accelerated learning process and to help, you know, get through difficult times. The MSL mentality has been very helpful for me in that process. And I've, I've been extremely happy to share that with anyone and everyone who is, who is open and willing to listen and, and would like to learn.

Quincy Amarikwa (19:26):

So, uh, just a big shout out and thanks to the community as always, um, for, uh, participating, but also the questions. Cause, you know, you guys have a lot of insightful, insightful questions and you always give me some space to riff and kind of bring my ideas together and share my experiences. Um, and a lot of which were lessons learned, uh, the hard way, but I appreciate everyone. Um, always, you know, taking me with the right intentions. Cause I know our goal is for everyone to improve, grow and get better over time. But that doesn't mean that we won't make mistakes, say the wrong thing at some times look stupid, you know, be the dumbest person in the room and be the smartest person in the room. Um, and everything in between life is, uh, you know, ebbs and flows. Um, let's see, Paul dropped in what's up, Paul, uh, just was talking, dropped in the #frequincy. Um, I mean you're in emojis. Yes. Uh, we were just, we were just speaking about you. I even, uh, w where does I bring you up, Paul? Oh, yeah. With, um, yeah, with Natasha in the call yesterday, that was like I

Quincy Amarikwa (20:48):

Said, lots, lots of conversations, lots of stuff been going on, but been a positive. Um, um, let me see you, baby. George said you better get an MSL cowboy hat. Yeah. I got to get working on that, but I just been using my worker hat for time now. Uh, but a perfect soccer cowboy hats would be dope. Um, Timmy pig said, I need to grab some new merge haven't decided on what yet, or what are you thinking what's speaking to you right now? Um, John said we're even in a lot, Don said hashtag rent still free. We've been in there for time building lots of stuff. Uh, T dot Rocia 16 dropped in and say what up? Um, Ben, uh, Ben Winfield said big ups from DC. Thanks for stopping by appreciate that. Uh, will Thompson said, I love your ideas around learning how to learn, would love to hear some more of your insight on, on that in self-training during the pandemic.

Quincy Amarikwa (21:57):

Okay. So, well, some more insight on learning how to learn that really comes down to three S's of self-awareness. And I know a lot of, um, MSL, uh, a lot of the MSL community has already checked that out. So if you have not yet, make sure you head over to perfect soccer skills.com/s S S um, and that should forge you over to the three S's of self-awareness talk. That'll really break down the process of learning, how to learn and the value of that and, and why it's so important. And, um, and then self-training during the pandemic is like, Whoa. Um, that's like making the best of what you've got around around you. And, uh, I, I mentioned that earlier with George, when I was saying, in terms of cross training, um, you know, this off season I've, I've, uh, been using, um, fence posts as workout, uh, uh, yeah, as, as workout equipment, um, we got the new perfect soccer mini ball.

Quincy Amarikwa (22:55):

So I've been doing, um, uh, small ball work, foot work, and then plyos this, uh, this off season, um, just from better understanding and learning, um, learning from last year, last year, I test a lot of new ideas, a lot of new approaches and, and, and learned a lot from one being, being a lot older, um, in terms of, uh, first starting out. So this is, this will be year 13 and, um, being mindful of that and how to make sure you're maintaining your body. Like I got through in the entirety of 20, 19 and 20 Toni with, uh, zero injuries. And that is definitely a Testament to, um, the approach that I finally have gotten like dialed in on to better understand my, my mind and when I need to ramp it up and when I need to, uh, tone it down. So, um, yeah, so that's what I've been doing as for, in terms of self-training during the pandemic, um, just refining that process, um, and, and I'm dialing in on it.

Quincy Amarikwa (24:08):

And then also what I'm doing more now is figuring out how to break those down and add those to the training center, through the perfect soccer subscription. So, so yeah, taking all the ideas and the experiences in, in, in sharing them with you guys and putting them in the training center. So let's see what we got here. Uh, George said you can bring the MSL into the MMA space. Mental strength is applicable to that as well. Expand the brand MSL MMA. Well, if you guys helped me get the first official, uh, fight registered in sanctioned, we can do it. MSL verse MLS, hashtag rent, still free David versus Goliath match. Right? Ben, Ben, Ben Olson said, he'd be the first person to purchase the ticket. You guys just got to get the hype train going so we can, we can make that thing happen. Um, let's see what we got here. Uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (25:25):

Okay.

Quincy Amarikwa (25:25):

Yeah, there we go. That I was going to pull up the other stuff. So I'll find the other things that I was Okay here. Um, the one on is Anthony said in response to the overthinking answer, I've had issues thinking too much, not just in society, but in soccer as well. Sometimes I think too much when I have the ball. Okay. Sometimes I think too much when I have the ball. Okay. Then the question I have for you is when do you know, you're thinking too much? What tells you that you're thinking too much? Like what's the trigger and how long, how much time are you spending in space overthinking before you realize you're overthinking? Um, and while, you know, or wait to hear back from you on that, Jordan said, uh, your Jordan said how to exceed expectations, well, to, to exceed expectations. You just have to, uh, under promise and over deliver. So if I think I can, you know, if I think I can jump 10 times, if I know I can jump 10 times and I bet you that I can jump five times

Quincy Amarikwa (26:43):

And we agreed

Quincy Amarikwa (26:44):

To that, and then you see me jumped in, I just exceeded expectations. I think the biggest problem is, uh, people aren't honest with themselves, which is the first step of the three S's of self awareness, self honesty. And there might be only capable of doing five jumps right now, but they'll make claims and make promises that they can jump do 10. And then even if you, somehow, if you get to 10, let's say you double your output. If you can only do 10, and like you ha you're super mentally strong and you push yourself super far and you can even, you get to 10 and that's doubling your output. You're literally just meeting expectations at that point in time. And that's not, as that's not perceived as great or advantageous or high level as the expectation is five and you, you go 10. So, uh, just like soccer, subjective, yellow cards are subjective.

Quincy Amarikwa (27:38):

Fouls are subjective, right? Expectations are also subjective. And what might be a high expectation for you might be a low expectation for someone else and vice versa. So that breakdown is just breaking down how to create a system of exceeding expectations. But that also doesn't mean that that is a system. It doesn't mean your output is good enough. So let me break that down even more. So I just use the numbers number system. Is that like, okay, if you say, if you believe in, no, you can do 10 and you set the expectation at five and you, you exceed expectations and hit 10. Um, you could see that as good, but if what's required to make it into the pro level or get into this program, or this class is jumping 50 times, it doesn't matter if you exceeded expectations of five to 10, the requirement was 50 or the threshold was 50. So that's why pre long-term planning and slow and steady wins the race and slow, incremental improvements over time is, is the best path to success. And why I say the best path is because it, it creates the greatest opportunity for you to maintain success, which is the thing that is most difficult.

Quincy Amarikwa (29:07):

And that's something that most people don't realize. A lot of people get to a high level of success or proficiency, but very few get there and remain there for a long duration of time. That's a different level of discipline and mentality. Um, speaking of that, that's very similar to like a, like a Tom Brady, right? In, in terms of one getting to a level that nobody expects you to get to you. I forget what they said in terms of his, he was like a hundred and something pick in the draft or something to that effect, um, to then also learn and study his craft over time, figure out ways to stick around long enough to get a shot. And then once gets his shot, maintains it, and then figures out a way in which to parlay that into a prolonged career and, uh, in a more integral part of the system and continually evolving.

Quincy Amarikwa (30:06):

So, uh, I guess the, the theme of the theme of the episode is, uh, evolution, right? Um, and you guys already know what that is. That's the MSL mentality adapt or die. And, um, we were talking about how to continually evolve and grow over time, evolve your thinking over time, um, and how to go about doing that in a sustainable manner. But yeah, you guys are coming with it coming with it today, which I'd love to see. Um, uh, yeah, no, it was good seeing you guys back and forth, having some conversations in here. Um, speaking of other stuff that's been going on, I just attended the athletes and, um, workshop with the NFL PA. That was insightful. Um, I was trying to, let me see if I find the, we got to do gifts, get to make it, get it. Uh, it's going super fast. You did do some gift action. Put, put, put, put, put up

Quincy Amarikwa (31:16):

When the game is over and after his divorce, he will say some of those doors start there.

Quincy Amarikwa (31:20):

Yeah. Okay. So then that was the clip of it. I was trying to get it, but the gifts going way too fast, 80 faster. Um, but yeah, that was, that was a good workshop, uh, being a part of that. Um, wha what's what else being up? Oh, well, I don't have a screenshot of it. I show you guys. I just did the, uh, New York red bulls panel as well today. Um, which I think there'll be publishing here at the end of, at the end of the month, they're doing, uh, a panel for black history month and discussing, um, just the, the U S soccer system and how to improve it. And, and the overall the changes that, that each person at every different, you know, position as play from a player perspective and a player role to, you know, um, in the executive roles and positions to the staff positions and in other, so that should be coming out in the next, I want to say a week or two, I think Connor laid helped help coordinate that and put it together.

Quincy Amarikwa (32:29):

So, um, shout out Connor on that side. Um, that was very cool of him to do and put together. Um, yeah, I was thinking about it. I played with Connor for like two weeks when I was with a fun fact on, if anybody knows I've signed with a New York, red fool officially signed for like a day, but I was with them for two weeks or a little over two weeks before I signed. And then as I signed, we did a signing deal for me to sign with them and then trade to Toronto at that time. But I had met Connor while I was, while I was there. Um, that was a good time. Uh, my time with New York red bulls was short, but it was very, it had a very lasting impression on me. I really enjoyed my time while I was, while I was there. That was also while, um, TT was there, teary Henri was there. And, uh, know maybe one day I'll share some of those stories, uh, as to kinda what I learned from, from that experience. Um, yeah,

Quincy Amarikwa (33:28):

And I I've learned a lot from that experience. Actually, that's making me, self-reflect a lot of takeaways from that time is a short time, but I learned a lot. It was, it was, it was a great time we had talked about,

Quincy Amarikwa (33:39):

They're also got to see Andre [inaudible], who also played for New York red bulls. We had played together for the Colorado Rapids back in 2010. Um, he works for the league now, ours has worked for the league for a few years now, but it was also on the panel. So, um, definitely make sure you guys check that out. Um, when, when you get a chance, Amani, uh, Dorsey was, um, was also there. Uh, she's been doing some great work with the black women's players collective, and for those who've been sticking around for a while, you guys have heard and seen the, the partnership that BPC and BWPC officially came together on, um, to continue the mini pitch initiative with us soccer foundation and Adidas. So, um, um, yeah, so ed, ed foster Simeon, the CEO of us soccer foundation was on the panel as well, and Oh, um, Dennis Hamlet of New York, red bulls, um, as well.

Quincy Amarikwa (34:36):

And, um, he was at the original mini pitch launching at Newark New Jersey, um, kicking, kicking everything off. So it's, it's been, it's been amazing to see the, see and hear, um, hear about the, the work that's being done behind, behind the scenes, um, and the things that are in the impact that a lot of the systems, processes, initiatives, and programs that, um, you know, everyone has been actively working on and, and the inclusive, more equitable end goal. We're all working towards. Excuse me. So, yeah, just trying to give you guys more real, like in the moment updates as to stuff, cause sometimes I'm just like I'm in it and I'm just collecting data and trying to, you know, process everything, understand everything help as I can, um, connect people with the right people, um, share as best of guidance as I possibly can with my, you know, my current understanding and, and, um, everything that comes along with that.

Quincy Amarikwa (35:51):

So, um, let's see. Um, the real Elden said, yeah, Anthony meets you, man. Sometimes I freak out on the wall from overthinking and make some poor decisions. So it sounds like, um, uh, several of you ran into that. So as I scroll, I'll get to see a little bit more, um, and get a little bit more feedback from you guys. So maybe we could dive into that a little bit deeper. Uh, what's more fun playing soccer or setting up America acres who let's say they're I say they're equally fun. Cause I'm setting up America acres to allow me to play more soccer. So we just laid down. Um, uh, so like compacted concrete and um, across like a good, a good amount of space. And uh, I want to build, I'm going to build like a, like a frame so I can have the goal and I can start doing more like actual soccer skills training and drill training out there. So, um, that'll be dope.

Quincy Amarikwa (36:55):

Um, I think it's just about knowing what's going to happen before it happens. Be a step ahead of the game. Okay. I love this. I love seeing you guys kinda, um, have conversations, help each other because you already know teamwork makes the dream work and your network is your net worth. So I love seeing everybody networking and sharing insights and thoughts and helping each other out. Um, okay. So the one on is Anthony said in response to you asking what the trigger is definitely when I'm getting pressure and have no options to pass to you. I don't normally take people on. Okay. Okay. So I better understand how you play the game. So then, so then I let's see who had said earlier because they were on the right path or decision who said that. Okay. Oh, okay. I think you said, I think it's just about knowing what's going to happen before it happens.

Quincy Amarikwa (37:52):

Okay. So that was you thinking through the problem and issue and that's what I'm saying. Yeah. You're on the right path. So, um, if you don't have any options in the current moment, how did you end up getting into that position on the field? So was there a better way to approach your movement to get, to make sure when you did have the ball, you were in a position where you had options and if that wasn't the case, was there a better time that you could've communicated with a teammate to help get them into a better position so that when you received the ball, they're an option. So there's multiple ways to break it down, right? You could, you could share information if you have, you know, if you built enough rapport with the team and know enough respect with your teammates and people, um, are wanting to listen to you and hear you or, or, um, which is, which is one thing, right?

Quincy Amarikwa (38:48):

So like, let's say you have that. Then if you're able to, um, share information with them earlier enough to where they trust the information you're giving and they react based on that and get into better advantageous positions, that's one way in which you can always make sure there's options. Um, you can get into really difficult situations, but you could have, you could be working so well on your, uh, your, uh, first touch in ball control and ball skill to be able to maneuver and get out of those situations. Um, you can work on long range passing to over bypass that like you got a lot of options you really needed to break down the game to the parts of it that you enjoy most. And that you're most passionate about. Um, getting really good at, uh, because I think if it's between being a specialtist specialist where you're only, you're only really, really good at one thing, and you're below average at everything, or you're, um, above average, like average at everything, but not really good at any one thing. Um, I'd, I'd pick the specialist because the specialist is, uh, is a player that will be integral to a system, which means you'll be the most valuable, or you can become the most valuable piece of a system. Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (40:09):

Yeah,

Quincy Amarikwa (40:10):

That's, that's me, right. That's me, my approach and my thinking, uh, specialist is better than, you know, generalist. It's good, but, but at the end of the day, there has to be something that you are extremely, extremely good at which, which when it becomes, it comes down to a decision between you and someone else, they can't afford to let you go. Um, and that takes time to develop like, and you know, and your specialty can change over time. Um, but understand that it takes a lot of time, effort and energy to develop a specialty or expertise in any one particular, uh, particular thing. Um, let's see, uh, Willis said, uh, thank you for the great answers. Of course, thanks for sticking around and, and the questions.

Quincy Amarikwa (41:11):

See,

Quincy Amarikwa (41:17):

I said Quincy with the drip, he know, you know what it is, um, uh, official coach Edgar dropped by going, well, how are you doing? Okay. George said, teary, Henri might be heading to born born Mo mouth born mouth. You guys already know. I don't know, like team names outside of MLS. So is, is, is teary already call it quits within MLS or what's the deal? Air Quakers mirror. Quiet Quakers. Yeah. America acres of mirror quake, Amera equate, Amera Quakers. I like that. [inaudible] that's a good one. Uh, Mark Tackett joined. What's going on brother? Uh, T a I Y E F a K Christian. Charles, could you Jr. Let's see what we got here. All right. Let's see. Okay. I don't know if, do you have any advice on becoming a pro soccer player? I'm 14. My dream is to be a professional soccer player.

Quincy Amarikwa (42:46):

, so that comes in from ice capital IC one, five, six, seven, nine, six. I can't see your whole question, but yeah, I do have some advice on becoming a soccer pro soccer player. Um, I definitely, we head over to perfect soccer skills.com/p S T M, and create yourself a, your free members, um, account and you get access to our books, um, and some of our training center resources, which will lay out for you, um, how to best approach, um, developing yourself. So you can maximize your, your likelihood or chances to playing at the professional level. So there's a lot that goes into it and it is a marathon, not a sprint. So for me to say that, excuse me, I could describe everything that's required to getting to the professional level in just one, you know, five minute segment I can not, but what I can do is direct you over to link kid that can set you on the path to get access to everything that you could possibly need on that journey. And I would doubly, incentivize or encourage you to get, to grab yourself or upgrade to a perfect soccer subscription, um, so that you can, um, fully tap into. Yeah, it was really, I'm just w w everyone, what is really making me think through is just like the amount of resources, insight, experience, and, um, access that players have today to be able to gain insights and, and get mentorship. And on this journey is just like, it still blows my mind. Cause I'm just thinking about, you know, where I started was just like,

Quincy Amarikwa (44:43):

Yeah,

Quincy Amarikwa (44:43):

Even if you wanted to search for answers to these types of questions, there wasn't even platforms that existed that allowed you to do so. It's like, it's a, I guess what I'm saying is don't take this for granted, right? Don't take these live shows for granted. Don't take access to the internet for granted. Don't take the access to, you know, these platforms for, to, for granted because like information and access is great, but if you're not executing on these ideas or this insight or this experience, you're, you're, you're just, I think it's worse. It's, I think it's worse than not having access in the first place. Cause you, you, you have access and you're not utilizing it. You're not taking advantage of it. You're not applying it at the very least, um, let alone even paying for it most of the time. Like, I mean, we, as humans, we, as humans can find things to complain about and things that are wrong with everything, which I think is just part of human nature, but

Quincy Amarikwa (45:49):

To focus on things that aren't okay

Quincy Amarikwa (45:51):

To focus your attention on things other than solutions to problems with the access to information, tools and resources we have to today, I just think is a very, um, poor use of the limited human time and experience that we, that we have here, um, together. And I'm, I'm very optimistic and confident that

Quincy Amarikwa (46:17):

We,

Quincy Amarikwa (46:17):

As humans are realizing that and, and doing better, you know, but it's also good to have constant reminders, which is what the I'm in your head emojis, um, is represents, uh, on top of the many other, uh, ideas and philosophies of the mental strength league, Um, loving that spam in that heart button. Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (46:53):

Let's see,

Quincy Amarikwa (46:57):

Uh, the woman who was Anthony said ever considered making a mobile app for perfect soccer ball. Yes, I have. That does take a decent amount of money if I'm going to pay someone to do that. And, um, so I think it'd be valuable and worth doing. Um, I don't have, yeah, I don't have the money to invest in doing that right now. And, um, haven't been making enough money to make that investment in. So, um, I think the we've got the mobile application basically right now where you can log in and get access to everything. And maybe it would come down to if we, if I had more requests of people who were utilizing the platform and would, would enjoy an app and make sense or know what would make sense if, if we're getting like 50 to a hundred people who sign up for the perfect soccer ball subscription, then for me, that lets me know it's worth me taking that money and putting it into developing the app.

Quincy Amarikwa (48:06):

That's really what it is, right? Like a lot of the information, everything we share in a lot of stuff that I've shared for a very long time, it's free access. You can get access to everything on here for free, if you want to do the work to figure it out. Um, which is how it should be, to be honest. Um, but there also needs to be a paid. Uh, there needs to be a way for us, for, for me to make money on it so I can, so I can validate that continuing to invest my time and money into building these things out. Isn't just me building things that I think are cool because I think they're cool. And I would have used them if I were, you know, 12, 13, 1922, whatever. Now I've got to allow time for the audience to show me that it's worth continuing to invest in those things.

Quincy Amarikwa (48:58):

And whether that's, you know, a perfect soccer ball team member who, who knows how to code and how to make applications, wants to come on board and, and make one for the community that we can leverage and use to keep it free. I'm all for that. Um, but I do understand that those systems, processes, skill sets, those, you know, those take time and it, and expertise and money and, um, yeah, just 11 with you guys keeping it real. You know what I mean? Like at the end of the day, uh, businesses have to make money. Um, so they can continue to pay employees and continue to invest in R and D and create new products and services. And, um, we've made a lot create a lot, and there's a lot of amazing access tools or resources here, uh, but not making enough money to, to keep, uh, to, to, uh, yeah, I'm not making enough money at this point in time, um, to, to put the money up, to make those things happen.

Quincy Amarikwa (50:02):

So definitely if it's a community effort, if this is my way of asking, I'm saying, Hey, if you're someone who knows how to code or develop an app and you're wanting to, um, uh, make one for us in the community, um, I am all for that. And, uh, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know, um, you know, kind of stuff you've worked on. If you've done it before, like what you could do and how to, how to help make that happen. Because I do think it would be of great value to the community. And I'd love to make that happen if there, if we could do it. Um, Minnesota does dot X. I and said, just got permanently, moved up to my club's premiere team. Wish me luck. Well, good luck. Congratulations. And, uh, what do you think helped make that happen? Like what, what were you doing? Um, what were you doing to, to make that move and, and, and get to the level to be called up or, or pulled up. And I'm also can full comment as well. All right. Um, everyone, we've got about five minutes left here before we'll wrap it up for today's episode. So if you guys got any other questions, drop them in the chat now.

Quincy Amarikwa (51:41):

Okay. So, um, Minnesota said, honestly, I just go into every training and game with the mindset that I may not be the most talented, but no one will outwork me. I like that. I like that. You're highly specialized. Um, that's a good focus. That's a good focus. Cause that's something that's always within your control, how hard you work. And, um, if, if things don't pan out exactly as you're, you were hoping at least, you know, you can rest your hat on that. And then you can go to the drawing board and then think through and think through, and work on, Excuse me, think through and work on a plan of attack so that you come back stronger and better. So that's dope. Yep. Electrical said good luck, man. Um, what else was here

Quincy Amarikwa (52:46):

Trying to think?

Quincy Amarikwa (52:49):

The little ones started doing more of theirs, their soccer ball training and practice. Okay. Let's get one. Um, J J a J J one, two, three had asked, are you reading any books at the moment? Quincy and no, I'm not. And I realized that today that I I'm not reading any, I I'm not, I haven't been reading any, um, books, uh, because my wife has a new book that she's reading that I saw sitting in the car today when I was getting out. And I was like, I need to, I need to get some new books to read. Um, I've been, I've been, um, reading a lot of like articles and, um, listening to a lot of people speak. So like people speaking can be like, they're telling their life story. That's like a book, but like sitting down and reading a book. Um, I haven't, I haven't been, I haven't been doing that as much as I used to in the past. And I think it was also for me,

Quincy Amarikwa (53:53):

Excuse me. I'm trying to think through what I would want to read.

Quincy Amarikwa (54:02):

Yeah. Well actually, yeah, the most recent book I read was, uh, uh, an SMA inverter, uh, uh, owner's manual. So the thing is like 200 pages of just like how, how it works at layer. I was telling you guys, I was going super deep into each just, uh, farming and solar and all of that. So I've been watching a lot of like tutorial videos and, and reading owner's manuals. But I don't, I don't count those as like actual books. Uh, how about, uh, how about you what's, what's some books that you guys are reading. Um, yeah. What are some books that you guys are reading?

Quincy Amarikwa (54:44):

Oh, man.

Quincy Amarikwa (54:44):

I'm hitting them in them limits today has been a, uh, an eventful one. Okay. Yeah. That's what it was pitch black had a, did the call. I was looking at my schedule. I was like, man, why am I tired? Yeah. Uh, pitch-black had a workshop called that they did earlier today. This morning, we did all the work with, uh, perfect soccer ball and getting that up to speed. We did the New York rebels panel, and then I had my meetings with, uh, my executive assistant and then my chief cultural officer and then prep for the show. And now we're doing the show. So, um, yeah.

Quincy Amarikwa (55:29):

Okay.

Quincy Amarikwa (55:30):

He hasn't read any books is what you're telling me. I'm not seeing anybody dropping any books down here, I guess. That's all right. I guess that's all right. Uh, you guys got audio books, uh, audio versions of books, um, on the perfect soccer ball podcast and perfect soccer ball radio, I guess that's a great play for perfect soccer ball skills.com/radio. Um, okay. Said, uh, JJ AJJ one, two, three said reading, uh, reading. Can't hurt me by David Goggins and listening on audible. Okay. Okay. That's the second thing we talked about, uh, David Goggins last week or the week before, um, can't hurt me. Okay. Someone did someone send me that maybe have a read of that one? Um, Joe Jack said, you'll Quincy. I know we're getting to the near the end of the live. Here's the wanted to say thank you for another great one and have a great week.

Quincy Amarikwa (56:33):

Thank you very much, Joe. I appreciate that. And he dropped them. I'm in your head emojis and right back at you brother, um, uh, labor pools had been a busy day for you. Yeah. A productive day. I won't say busy, productive. Um, I'm getting real dialed in on, um, yeah, real dialed in, on breaking down. Uh, my schedule. So time management, I tell you guys time management is, is, uh, is a massively advantageous skill. And, um, it's figuring out how to re like, I don't even know how I talk. How do I say it? How to like restructure my time, um, to fit my short-term long-term goals, family goals, business schools, uh, soccer goals. So it can all work in, uh, the right #frequincy.

Quincy Amarikwa (57:34):

That's what has been about you guys dialing in on the frequency and I, and I think I've cracked that code. So I'm ex I'm excited for, uh, what, 2021. Um, Hmm. Joe Jackson said, I read a book about soccer mentality not too long ago after I read the perfect soccer player blueprint. Uh, nice. Thanks for the plug, bro. Um, yeah, I recalled the frequency. Exactly. So, um, maybe, maybe it makes sense if, if, if you guys are interested, I can do maybe like a private zoom call where we're breaking down or I'll show you like, uh, my week schedule, what it is that I'm doing, how I manage it, that kind of stuff. If you guys are interested in stuff like that. Um, yeah. Uh, thinking of thinking of new and cool ways that we can, we can peel back that curtain and share how things work and, and creating, uh, creating more experiences for the community.

Quincy Amarikwa (58:39):

So, so that we can all continue to thrive on moving forward, but that we'll, we'll call it a wrap. Um, for, I want to say we're episode one Oh four, check that for sure. Uh, before, before I started, but I think it's episode one of four, the hashtag has show and, uh, I want to thank everybody for joining us on the live. Um, uh, everyone's engagement for the entire hour was amazing to see. I can, I can tell that everybody is making a lot of progress and upgrading them that mental software. So thanks to everyone who, uh, stop by and who stuck around the entire, the entire episode or show. I will see everybody, same time, same place, 6:00 PM, 9:00 PM EST

Quincy Amarikwa (59:22):

On the perfect soccer account. And there's always, I mean, your head. Thanks everybody. See you next week.

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Rachel Hill | Perfect Soccer Ball Podcast Ep.044

In today’s episode: Paul interviewed forward Rachel Hill of Chicago Red Stars. Nkosi discusses playing at Uconn, getting drafted 14th overall in the 2017 NWSL draft, and her journey playing in the NWSL and overseas.

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0:00 - 1:16 Intro

1:18 - 3:51 Youth career: Choosing soccer ball over other sports

3:52 - 5:00 Picking the right college

5:02 - 6:20 The Yukon experience: 89 appearances and 61 goals!

6:21 - 6:53 Being an All-American twice

6:54 - 8:00 Thinking of going pro

8:08 - 8:44 Leaving Yukon early to get in the Draft?

8:56 - 10:44 Draft Day and getting traded 3 days later

10:45 - 12:42 First game and first goal with the pros

12:44 - 13:36 Biggest difference between college and pro?

14:00 - 15:58 Loaned out to the “Land Down Under”

15:59 - 17:02 Joining the Chicago Red Stars

17:53 - 19:18 From sunny Australia to snowy Sweden, Rachel’s experience is vast

19:19 - 19:53 Playing for the national team

19:54 - 24:33 Quincy’s 5 questions

24:35 - 26:09 Off the pitch questions

26:10 - 27:25 Outro

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Chris Seitz | Perfect Soccer Ball Podcast Ep.045

In today’s episode: Paul interviewed goalkeeper Chris Seitz of DC United. Nkosi discusses winning the national championship at Maryland, playing in the MLS and the Olympics, and his plan for life after soccer ball.

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1:21 - 2:04 How did Chris get into soccer?

2:05 - 2:32 Being between club and high school soccer ball

2:34 - 3:22 Falling in love with goalkeeping

3:25 - 5:37 Chris’s college recruiting process

5:38 - 6:42 Winning the national championship as a freshman

6:43 - 7:35 The experience at Maryland University

7:36 - 8:54 Chris’s first thoughts of going pro

8:56 - 9:49 Defensive player of the year as a sophomore

9:51 - 11:46 Getting picked in the first round of the MLS Draft

11:49 - 12:50 How was the first MLS game for Chris?

12:52 - 15:41 The feeling of getting traded a lot

16:03 - 18:14 How to mentally prepare for uncertainty

18:16 - 19:20 How Chris saved a life!

19:22 - 20:32 The trading continues

20:33 - 22:20 Playing in the Covid bubble with DC United

22:21 - 23:44 Making the Olympics team, it’s a dream come true!

23:46 - 22:38 Quincy’s 5 questions

22:39 - 24:57 Off the pitch questions

24:58 - 26:21 Outro

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Sirena Amarikwa | Perfect Soccer Ball Podcast Ep.046

In today’s episode: Paul interviewed Quincy’s wife Sirena Amarikwa. Nkosi discusses her track career from college to the pros, having a strong mentality and what it’s like to being married to a professional soccer player.

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1:43 - 3:42 Why did Sirena try out for every sport possible?

3:43 - 5:53 Sirena’s soccer tryout

6:00 - 8:03 Transitioning from gymnastics to track and field

8:04 - 9:38 Sirena’s high school experience

9:40 - 12:30 The mindset of overcoming self-doubt

12:32 - 14:49 Sirena’s crazy college recruitment story

14:50 - 16:59 The effects of the College experience

17:01 - 18:09 Not thinking about going pro

18:10 - 22:23 Sirena’s pursuit of The Olympics

22:24 - 26:05 The unfortunate last run on the pro tracks (Sirena’s Last Dance)

26:53 - 38:55 Quincy’s 5 questions

38:56 - 24:57 Off the pitch questions

24:58 - 26:21 Outro

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Is The MLS Only “Checking The Box” When It Comes To Black People & Diversity Of The League?

The #AskASocerPro show is a Live video podcast where 11 year MLS vet and Mental Strength Coach Quincy Amarikwa dives into the mentalities of highly successful individuals both on and off the pitch. In this weeks episode Quincy Amarikwa discussed about What is the MSL Mentality, Why You Need A Perfect Soccer Subscription and more.

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0:00-3:24 What is the MSL Mentality? Welcome To EP 103 Of The #AskASoccerPro Show!

3:25-4:48 Why You Need A Perfect Soccer Subscription!

5:02-6:17 Did You Catch EP 102 With Chris Odoi?

7:47-9:47 Quincy Is Keeping Fit This Offseason At #AmarikwaAcres

9:52-13:23 The MSL Mentality Is Thriving Within Our Community!

13:24-14:49 Perfect Soccer Internship Opportunities!

16:17-17:30 @timmypig14 Joins The #AskASoccerPro Show

17:35- 19:45 @timmypig14’s Biggest Takeaways From The MSL Mentality

19:46-23:14 @Timmypig14 Breaks Down Why She Feels She’s Underrated

23:40-26:46 @Timmypig14 Shoots Her Shot!

31:08-35:00 Quincy’s Thoughts On The MLS During Black History Month 2021

35:01-36:06 What would happen if the CBA between the MLS and MLSPA didn’t come to terms?

36:41-38:38 Is The MLS Only “Checking The Box” When It Comes To Black People & Diversity Of The League?

38:40-40:11 Seeing The Long Term Impact Come To Life!

42:52-47:20 Advice For An Upcoming Pro Trial? @anders….

48:00-49:01 Impacts of COVID and the CBA on the soccer market.

56:17-58:46 What Does Quincy’s 2021 Soccer Future Look Like?

59:40-62:29 How To Bring The MSL Into Your Life!

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Quincy Amarikwa (00:00:00):

We're all here to ride the MSL waves. You've mentioned the strength lead. I'd like to welcome you to another episode of the hashtag ask eight soccer pro [inaudible]

Quincy Amarikwa (00:00:11):

No Timmy pig, Joe Jackson, what's Pippi pop in. He know what it is, who has to have his throw a goat legend of a man up on the screen that MSL increased football. What's going on a [inaudible], um, M and UFC fan page dropping in what's. Wha what's up, everybody. Have you see everybody joining in tuning in here today is going to be a good episode. I think episode one Oh three hashtag has a second first show. So as everybody's joining in, um, uh, polka junior said, I completely forgot about today's show, but luckily I set three monitor. Yo, shout out, push notification, gang. Love that. Messy getting woke. You guys know what it is. All right. So as everybody is, uh, dialing in here, tuning in here, what's going on, Nate? Um, it is another episode of the hashtag ask a soccer pro show. Oh, episode one Oh three.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:01:21):

I'm your host. 12 year pro MLS cup champion, MLS comeback player of the year, UC Davis hall of fame member, black players for change founder and MSL coach coinci America. Now, what is the MSL? You might be asking yourself? Well, a lot of the MSL army knows about that. MSL lesion knows what that's all about, but that's what we're here to discuss. Every Thursday, 6:00 PM, PST 9:00 PM EST on the app. Perfect. Underscore soccer, Instagram account, the mental strength league. You guys know what it is, I'm in your head, right? For those of you who are just tuning into this frequency, it is a game of mental 40 chess. One where you're either aware or wait. You're either aware and an active participant, or you are a pawn in the game sitting in plate because no one it is. So what is the MSL? It is the mindset you need to accomplish your goals.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:02:15):

Why should you have this mindset? So you can learn how to learn, why learn, how to learn. You may then be asking yourself well that's so you can know when and how you are stopping yourself from achieving your goals and what to do about it. And the ultimate question is when does this mindset start? The moment you decide to take responsibility for where you are, even if where you are, isn't your fault and put forth a plan to learn what you need to, to continue forward. So if you are ready for two days episode, I'm gonna need you guys to start spamming that heart button and dropping them on in your head. Emojis. If you guys are down with the MSL and, uh, those of you who are new, who are down to get down in the MSL, go ahead and drop them. I'm in your head, emojis and spam that hard button and a drop down below, or drop in the comments and stuff.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:03:03):

What you're excited about for today's episode, um, what you took away from last week, where you're calling in from where you guys are located. I threw a whole bunch of stuff out there. So you do what speaks to you in this moment, drop whatever you're feeling down in there while I move on to today's sponsor. Cause you guys know what it is now. We out here extra official with it. So, uh, today's episode of the hashtag S soccer pro show is brought to you by perfect soccer. You know what it is the number one platform to talk to learn from and work with pro soccer players. Sign up for your perfect soccer subscription today [email protected] slash subscription. You guys see that pin below. It is the ultimate soccer package. There's so much dope stuff that I won't even just go to. Perfect soccer skills.com/subscription. Check it out.

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Quincy Amarikwa (00:05:02):

We've been doing, uh, having a guest and last week episode one Oh two, we had, uh, Chris [inaudible], uh, my formal former teammate, MSL, mentee, current MSL, mentee, and, uh, most, uh, recent, recent perfect soccer intern, uh, joining last week, share a bit of his story, his path to the professional ranks, how he overcame cancer and his just overall mentality shift as a result of that and learning about the MSL. So if for those of you who didn't, uh, have a chance to listen to last week's episode, I highly recommend you catch the replay, uh, published over on perfect soccer skills.com. And for those of you who were in last week, what, uh, what were kind of your takeaways, uh, have, has anyone watched the rewatch, the replay, um, reprocessed self-reflected on that and, um, yeah. Uh, I'm, I'm wanting to do like a traditional MSL episode like today.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:06:00):

So episode one Oh three, where we, uh, we talked to the audience, we hear where you guys are at, what you took away from last week, guest episode, any person, any questions you have for me, uh, today, as well as I think we'll also begin Timmy pig, we'll be making a quick little appearance here for a couple of minutes, uh, for, for those of you who follow, obviously you follow the account, but you're keeping up to date. Connor manages the account day to day, and he's been, uh, sending out a couple of questions, uh, to the audience. And one of the questions that was sent out was tell us someone who is, um, underrated. And, uh, I liked Timmy pig, 14, the answer. So, uh, we'll have her on here in a, in a bit to, uh, share, share her answer and why that's the case.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:06:51):

So it should be a good one, should be a good one today and, uh, drop your questions in the box. If you've got any, and we'll do a bit of everything. We'll riff, give you guys some updates as to what's going on and, uh, all that good stuff. See Donna joined in what's what's going on, Donna Popa Jr said the mental strength, lead leak, flame emojis and the frequency. Yes, he is Emilio dropping them in your head. Uh, uh, I'm in here at emojis, uh, Umar doing the same path to pro soccer with three heart emojis. No, I'm loving, loving the engagement scene, everybody here.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:07:36):

Um, let's see. Let's see,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:07:42):

I see you guys dropping some stuff down there. I'll also give you guys kind of an update for those of you. Who've been following my personal account, Quincy Mariko account. You guys will know that we, uh, we purchased some land and we've got America acres jumping off, but that also doesn't mean,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:08:00):

Uh huh.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:08:03):

So getting into farming and ag, but that also doesn't mean we're not still staying prepared because you got to stay ready. So you don't have to get ready for the upcoming soccer season. I'm officially in my, what is this? So I'm, I'm in free agency and this will be my 13th year pro

Quincy Amarikwa (00:08:23):

If we

Quincy Amarikwa (00:08:25):

Ended up securing another contract here. So, um, gotta be getting that training in I'll know if you guys have been watching and the boys have been joining in as well too. So getting a lot of plyo work out here on, uh, America acres. So what have you guys been doing to keep it

Quincy Amarikwa (00:08:45):

In shape? Um, and have you been,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:08:51):

You guys have been following me. I sit here, my little one doing his thing. So I've been doing a lot of, uh, bounding work, plyo work. You see the little ones they're practicing, having some fun as well to you. Legs are still a little bit, I'm gonna lie. Legs are a little tired from

Quincy Amarikwa (00:09:08):

That work from yesterday's training.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:09:13):

But yeah, I'm planning on building kind of like a, a training, like a mini training facility with a weights, a wall full school and all that. So I'm looking forward to that. So I'll keep you guys, if you guys aren't already, um, if you guys aren't already following my personal and seeing what's been going on over there, don't miss out on some of that good wholesome content. All right. So let's see, uh, loving everyone spam that heart button appreciate that. Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:09:49):

Let's get into it. So,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:09:52):

Uh, Popa junior said, what I got from last week shows that you must not give up no matter what life throws at you, that is he solid and true takeaway. Um, so always good to connect with Chris and just see his progress. Um, especially coming back from, you know,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:10:12):

Something like cancer, right? It's no joke,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:10:18):

But he's got that long-term winners mindset. You guys know what it is. Uh, okay. Umar said when y'all spoke about the time sheets, that helped remind me how important and how important time management is with training. That is, that is a, that's a true shout. I, I think, I think you can tend to get so caught up in the new trend, the new craze, the new training program or whatever that, uh, you tend to forget. It's kind of time-tested things or what works and what's most effective. And that time management process, she in training is

Quincy Amarikwa (00:11:01):

Wow.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:11:01):

Provide a lot of dope content, resources and training in, um, on the perfect soccer platform and in the perfect soccer team members area. Um, you'll be hard pressed to find one, if there's only one thing that you could take in utilizing use that we provide, like, if you're saying, Hey, gun to your head, you got to just only one. I would say probably the most valuable one that would translate into the most success across everything in your life is the time management worksheet. So definitely sign up for your perfect soccer subscription and, uh, get yourself that, uh, right away. Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:11:38):

Because it's,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:11:41):

It's so many things wrapped up into one that it's simple enough to do, but it's kind of like the 10 pushup challenge, like as time goes on, it's really hard to do simple things well over a long duration of, and uh, if you can kind of master that, you're, you're the master of your, of your universe, you

Quincy Amarikwa (00:11:59):

Know what I mean? Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:12:01):

But that's a good shout Umar. I

Quincy Amarikwa (00:12:03):

Agree. Uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:12:06):

Joe Jackson, uh, Joe Jackson, that said, I liked the lesson to start planning ahead for after your career, because you never know when it could end, like he found out when he had to battle cancer. That's correct. Right. I think the thing that is most difficult for players to come to terms with, or to grasp is whether you have a 13 year career or a three-day career or no career, like almost a career, your career will end eventually one day. So, uh, the practical thing to do would be in your free time, cause you got a lot of it or your extra time, uh, spend some of it and by span, I mean invest some of that in planning for post-career. What do you want to do? What, what, what interests you, what, what industry would you like to be part of, uh, would you like to stay in soccer? Um, if so, how can you stay close to the game, um, who are people you can connect with along the way that can help you in that process and how can you, how can you develop skill sets so that you can, you can be a value add to the game and the community for, for a long time, not just, um, someone who's taking advantage of the current situation. Right.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:13:16):

Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:13:17):

Yeah, and I think that's really what our, you know, the perfect soccer internship program, um, is going to further help facilitate. We've been basically kind of like doing a beta that for like last year, like maybe like two years now.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:13:29):

Um, but, uh, yeah, dialed in

Quincy Amarikwa (00:13:36):

And with that, the onboarding process is flames. And I think, uh, for those of you who might be interested in an internship opportunity, we'll hopefully be posting some of that here. Soon. We could use some help on the social media side of stuff, community management, uh, engagement, uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:13:53):

Just making

Quincy Amarikwa (00:13:54):

Sure, making sure we're not, we, we provide so much value and give so much information that sometimes it can, it can be overwhelming and people can get lost. So community members are huge,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:14:04):

Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:14:05):

Are huge in helping us make sure that we're, we're making the content as digestible as possible, easiest to navigate as possible. So if you're interested in, you know, gaining some experience on that side and building that resume and building your network, cause you know, your network is your net worth, make sure to reach out, to contact the perfect soccer skills.com and uh, obviously be on the lookout for only ultimately kind of post those internship opportunities. I'm seeing some of you guys spend in that heart button. So,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:14:39):

Um, that'll be, that's good to see, um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:14:45):

Joe Jackson pushup challenge versus sir.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:14:48):

Yeah. He's him. The he's getting that upper, uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:14:52):

Dialed in a Nunez A's coinci time. You know, that is Chris what's happening brother. Welcome. Welcome. Uh, let's see. All right. So if you guys got any questions, go to drop them in the Oh, okay. There we go. Okay. So those are, uh, okay. These are people that responded in terms of who they feel are underrated. We've got some of those there now. Let's see. So you guys already know like fall on the, what do you call it? Feed your Jordan what's going on and McNasty welcome. Okay. So let's see. Timmy, Timmy P is N remember that when you get to college offers to, if you were to get injured, would you like that place beyond soccer? Can you plan beyond your career? Correct. Timmy's talking about team pig is talking about vision and having it. So you got it there, but that is a, that is a good point. And it's a good transition. And to have you on so we can, we can talk a bit about who you believe is extremely underrated.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:16:19):

Hello? Hello.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:16:21):

What's going on? How are you doing good. How are you? I'm good. I'm excited. I'm excited for this. Cause uh, uh, Connor had Connor had, uh, posted who's most underrated. Right? And he got, he got some answers and he said, uh, he said, Tammy pig said, she's the most? She said, she's the most underrated. I said, you know what? I love that energy. We need to have her on. And uh, if you got to state, state her case and let us know where she's coming from. Cause I, I liked that. And uh, maybe, uh, give us a little bit of background. What's your name? Where are you? Where are you from? How long have you been following the perfect soccer brand for and um, yeah, let's, uh, let's kind of break down, uh, your answer cause I liked it.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:17:05):

All right. Sounds good. So my name is Hannah. Um, I'm originally from Maryland, right, right out of DC. So I've followed DC United growing up. Um, big fan there. I'm in North Carolina now for college go to Campbell university, uh, junior. So that's what life is looking like right now. I do club soccer here, president, you know, get all that figured out for women's team. Yeah,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:17:33):

No, I'm okay. I love that. So, um, okay. So how long have you been following the perfect soccer brand for? Like how did you find out about us and what made you follow?

Quincy Amarikwa (00:17:43):

Um, well, so, okay. I originally met you after the game against LA galaxy at Aldi field. And I was like, okay, this guy's pretty cool. Right. Um, did a little bit of looking into it. I really been following the brand for about a little over a year now. Uh, really like last December is when I really got into the brand. So awhile,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:18:08):

I like that. Okay. So what's what stood out most to you. What have you, what is, what's your biggest takeaway from everything so far in,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:18:15):

Um, one of my big takeaways, like you said, um, is taking responsibility for where you're at at this moment, whether it's your fault or not, and owning where you're at and making that plan to get where you want to be. That one's huge for me because, you know, especially with COVID and everything, everyone's in a different place than what they expected. And it's not always that person's fault, but it's your job to get to a better place.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:18:43):

Okay. I love okay. I love that. That's that that's an MSL mindset you're coming at us with right now. Okay. So, all right. So speaking to that, where, where is it that you want to go? What's your goal? Where, what, what are you shooting for and um, what do you think you are needing to do to get there

Quincy Amarikwa (00:19:04):

Right now? Um, like I said, I'm in college, I'm majoring in special education. And my big goal right now is to get my licensure and start teaching. And of course COVID knock that out, mess things up. Cause we can't be in schools. We can't student teach. So for me, it's really the big plan of working on what I can do to still be involved with schools. What I can do to pass all my licensure tests, how I need to study, how I need to take responsibility for what I'm going to do and what I'm going to put forward to get where I need to be.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:19:38):

I love that. So. Okay. So, uh, I like that. We're gonna, we'll probably revisit that. Right. So I wanna, I wanna tie it into, uh, the question we had thrown out on the account, um, which was his missing underrated, right. To which you had answered yourself. Right. And okay. And why is, so why is that? You gotta, you gotta state your case, uh, share with us in the audience. Me, why, why you believe that's the case and, and, um, what, what your plan is, uh, to, to, to make that no longer the case in the future.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:20:18):

So I actually, when we get those little questions, you know, every week, every couple of days, whatever, I put some thought into them before I answer it. And I was like, you know, who's the most underrated, you know, women's soccer player right now. And originally when you think underrated, your mind goes to skill level first, because you think a good player is just skill and that's not trauma. Like, you know what, you can be underrated in the mindset and the vision that you bring to your team. And I feel like that's what I bring to my team. Not only just on the field, but to the people around me, I'm like, I have that ML, NFL mindset, like, you know, given the pep talks, letting people, helping people get to their goals and like sharing that wisdom that we learned from the show every week. It's like, I'm not just underrated on the field and what I can do with the ball. It's who I am, what I'm doing, what I'm saying, what I'm putting forth.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:21:08):

I like that that's confidence. And you're not able to say some stuff like that unless you're really doing the work, uh, when nobody's looking right. So, okay. I like that. And that's why when I, when I saw that answer, come in, I said, okay, we need to, let's see, let's see if she's about that action or if, or where she's at on that. So what do you, what do you feel is your, your biggest attribute? You know, you said, um, underrated, mentally, right. Mentality is something that's hard to see necessarily maybe in the short term, but results speak for itself over time. Right. But, uh, that, that takes time and it, sometimes it takes a real long time for people to see. Um, and a lot of people give up along the way. So what, what do you feel is unique uniquely? Um, what's unique to you? What's, what's that skillset what's that what's, that I'm losing, I'm not speaking the right word, but like to you, what, what do you define that to be for yourself? What is that

Quincy Amarikwa (00:22:08):

For me? I think I have, or I know I have good long-term planning and long-term vision, so I'm not just going to do what's good for me and my team in the moment I'm going to look forward at what, where we need to get and the steps to get there longterm.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:22:25):

Okay. And have you always had that skill set as that's something you've been developing over time? Like when, when did you really start leaning into that?

Quincy Amarikwa (00:22:35):

Um, I think I've always been good at looking ahead, but really the past, the past year with COVID, um, and not being able to do everything as we've always done and looking forward. So you know, where we want to be eventually playing games again and you know, what skill level we're going to need to be at and just how we're going to get there. Um, COVID has really helped me with all that planning and figuring out, you know, everything doesn't look right now, how we want it to look, but if we can create a vision for the future and a goal, we can work on getting there,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:23:10):

Love that. No, that's good. And the audience members are loving that as well to judge our dropped a bunch of I'm in your head emojis, um, uh, said solid answer, Whoa. A bunch of clap hands. Cause they're like in that, um, hashtag facts, uh, Kendall Cox had said perfect soccer lifestyle, uh, three heart emojis. Yeah. Everyone's loving, loving the energy and the, and the mindset and the mentality. And, um, you know, I'm glad we, I'm glad you, you able to hop l and share a little bit about that. So, okay. What is something I could do be of help. So is there any questions that you have, uh, ideas that you've been thinking of? Like what, what a, where are you, where are you at with all that?

Quincy Amarikwa (00:23:56):

Ooh, I don't know. I didn't come with a question prepared this week. Normally I have something in mind, something to drop.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:24:02):

There you go see a few to the future plan and I caught ya.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:24:05):

I know you did. We'll see. Cause my head was like, Oh, I'm hopping on today. Let me, you know, let me know what I'm going to go for. And now you turn it around on me. And you asked for a question, man. I don't know. I don't know. You know, you know how you can help. I've got this. You can keep me in mind for that internship position.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:24:28):

Okay. There we go. I like that. Okay. That's that's that's good transition. Okay. Um, what do you, what do you think your skill set is? Like what, what, what interests you most, what would you want to be involved in? Like what division do you already have an idea of, uh, where you wanted to gain some experience?

Quincy Amarikwa (00:24:47):

I would love to do like media stuff and kind of community outreach, you know, hear from everybody, get what they want from us. Hope, bring it back so we can make it better for the users, for the fans.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:25:02):

I like that. Okay. That's good. Cause I was talking with Serena about that in terms of like needing more needing to do a better job. Uh, so we talk about it, right? Self honesty for me when I'm reflecting on stuff, I go, okay, I need to be doing a better job of, of the community outreach of managing that. I think when, when I was first starting out and building the brand, you kind of, you do everything, uh, your, your customer support, your customer, your, your, your follow-up, your, you know, you're the janitor, you're cleaning things, you're technical, all of that. Um, but as you start to grow, you got to recognize when you got to delegate and elevate, right. And, and you guys know the core value here. Teamwork makes the dream work. So I liked that and I, we are going to make that happen. So I, 100% want to get you onboarded as an intern and in the community outreach department and division. So, um, yeah, no, I liked that. That was, that was good. See, now you caught me cause I go, Oh, okay. That's a good day.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:26:03):

That would be great.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:26:06):

Yeah, of course. So what we'll do here is, um, send, uh, okay. Uh, send an email to [email protected]. So we've got your contact information and then I'm going to connect you with Haley. She's our chief cultural officer, and she's been helping us refine the whole onboarding process. And we'll get you onboarded as an intern. We've got like some, uh, um, some onboarding training you go through. And then, uh, we have a interview to figure out what works, where, where you'd like to fit, but it already sounds like, you know where that is. So we'll be able to kind of move forward with that. Great, straightforward, dope. Um, Emilio's dropping fire emojis. Uh, Kendall said, uh, look at you, purpose driven, purpose driven, um, and then Pagosa, the MSM mindset is such a positive mindset. No, I love, I love that. Uh, Hannah, I appreciate you one, uh, following the brand and, uh, being willing to jump on here on the live and share a bit of your experience. And I'm also looking forward to having you join as a perfect soccer intern. So

Quincy Amarikwa (00:27:13):

Great. Thanks for having me.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:27:15):

Of course. Um, uh, maybe what we'll have to have a check-in after you've, uh, been working with us for a little while and get your updates and you can let the people know, uh, the good, the bad and, uh, and everything.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:27:29):

Of course, of course. Cell phone is honesty.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:27:33):

Love that. All right. Thanks. I'll speak to you soon.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:27:36):

All right. Thanks. Bye.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:27:42):

Okay. Of that. Look at that. We've got another perfect soccer intern. Shout out, Hannah. See you guys spamming that heart button. The community grows. Um, Oh, that's really dope. Shout out Connor. Um, an OJI perfect soccer intern. Um, for coming up with the question and, and, um, and big shout out to Hannah for throwing her name in the hat, you know, that only comes with building that confidence over time and doing the work to be ready when your opportunity comes, you guys know what it is. You gotta stay ready, so you don't have to get ready. And Hannah was ready. Um, let's see. POBA had said, well, I'm here. I'm here. Look like, uh, it looks like I'm stuck in Jamaica for now until I come back. And I've been given an opportunity to sign up with the inner sports management to get an opportunity, to get a trial at a pro level part one.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:28:46):

Well, being in Jamaica is not too, not a bad shot. I would assume them whether it's pretty nice over there, but congratulations on signing with your management team. I hope you get an opportunity here soon. Uh, Kendall said that was super fun. Yeah, no, that was dope. I was like, uh, having some time with the community and having you guys join in and share your experiences, especially, um, what you've taken away from the brand and the show over time, you know, we've been doing NASA soccer show for almost like over what, two years now. And perfect soccer started in 2013. So was that year or year eight? Yeah, my math serves me right. Um, platform grows and I'm, I'm glad to hear that you guys are getting a lot of, um, uh, value out it, a lot of positive, positive vibes, a positive community. And, um, with Hannah's help here, we'll, uh, we'll further, we'll further refine and increase our community outreach.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:29:54):

So that's dope. Let's see.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:29:58):

So if you guys got any questions, drop them in the question box here. Um, so we can get to them.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:30:08):

Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:30:14):

Can I say 105 episodes? No, I think we're episode one of three today's episode. One to three.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:30:19):

Oh, let me see. Double check. Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:30:27):

ISA said, I love your videos, heart emoji. Thank you very much. I appreciate the, I appreciate the support and you watch it and,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:30:36):

Uh, being a follower, um, he could see what I was doing here. I'll look it up in our Slack channel.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:30:44):

No. Yeah. So episode yeah, episode one or two last week with, um, with Chris [inaudible] and then we've got episode one Oh three today with Hannah,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:30:56):

Um, stopping by, uh, see what else we've got here.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:31:10):

I mean, it also, I mean, what's also going on it's, uh, black history month. Um, we've been seeing, uh, MLS has been doing a lot more this time around

Quincy Amarikwa (00:31:22):

Aye.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:31:25):

I'm seeing a lot more posted on their accounts and highlighting a lot of, a lot of players and,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:31:35):

Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:31:38):

With the recent completion and ratification of the CBA, uh, the MLS we'll get back to play. I think what was it? April 17th or April 14th is the official start date. There's still quite a, still a little bit of time. Are we? January? February,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:31:56):

March, April may vary.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:31:59):

But the rest of February, March and April, There's a little bit of time is who's who's looking forward to the MLS season. And um, what are you going to, what are you going to be focused on and doing now until then? It's still, still a little bit of time before things get back going. Okay.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:32:32):

Sorry. Today it's been a long day.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:32:37):

Uh, portable said it's my birthday month. My next week. Oh, well happy early birthday.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:32:43):

Okay.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:32:45):

The Bronx blues said what's up. What's going on? Um, shout out from we're from New York city FC, shout out Sean Johnson,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:32:55):

The captain, uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:33:01):

Uh, Joe Jackson had said, hopefully that that's more long-term than just because of what has been happening the last year. Hopefully that's more long-term uh, I, I, with relation to what I feel like I might've said something and now I'm blanking on what you're saying. You're hoping is more longer.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:33:20):

Sure.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:33:24):

Judge. I said, uh, seeing Wando lift a cup, that's what I'm excited for the season. Hey, advance. Got it. I think the trophy he got was some supporters' shield, right? Like 2012 or something. Was it 2012? 13? It was during like the bash brothers era. Oh, G Oh G MLS. Good times. I loved that time. I'm biased because that's my time. But also because I think it was like the best time, because it was, I think it was just like a great blend of great players, but great personalities and people just enjoying it and having a good time and like making it more entertainment than,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:34:10):

You know,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:34:12):

Football. Like I get it, like it's important. You want to win games and championships and playoffs and stuff. You can do that and have fun. And I think like that era did a good job of, of getting, getting the work done, but also having fun and, and making it, uh, I mean, entertainment, the entertainment factor I think was different than, than it is now, but maybe that's just old man talking old young man talking.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:34:45):

Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:34:48):

Yeah, Joe Jenkinson, MLS is doing more for black history month. Yeah, they are. I mean, it's not too hard for them to do much more. They haven't really done anything in the past, but the fact that they're doing it now is a, is a good sign. Um, I think positive,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:35:03):

Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:35:05):

Uh, the Bronx said, I can't imagine if the MLS season was positive if they didn't reach a CBA agreement. Yeah. Um, that was like the third renegotiation of the CBA in 18 months. Something like that. Those are no, like, that's no simple task. There's like a lot goes into that. Um, it seems like the MLS PA uh, learn their lesson from the last, the, the original CBA signing that, but not ratifying it before the league ultimately backed out. And then through in their force majeure clause and a bunch of other little things that wouldn't have necessarily, uh, gotten passed, had it not been for the lack of the ratification of the CVA, which just means like, making it official, like, uh, you know, crossing all the T's dotted, all the I's. Um, This one seemed like the deal got done and ratified within like 48 hours. So,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:36:08):

Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:36:13):

Let's see, Joseph don't get me started with the bash roads. Good times is bringing those guys out of retirement. Just, just for like, just to sub on the last minute of every game. I think they could do that. Right. That's the word there? They've got four substitutions now. Right. That's like the new rule. So there you go. Uh, yeah, that's what I meant. Hopefully they're doing more for black history month and that long-term rather than just Oh. Of what has been happening in the last year. So, uh, I know. Okay. I follow you. Yeah. And I agree. Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:36:57):

Yeah,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:36:57):

I, and I, and it's also difficult because you're saying like, okay, they're just doing it because it's relevant and necessary. Is that, is that something that they're going to be doing regularly here moving forward? Or is this just kind of to check some boxes here in the short term? Um, I'd like to think that those boxes will have to be checked for the longterm. So regardless of if it's just to check boxes now or, or, or because it's popular, I think it's part of the process now. So, um, I think that's important. Uh, the league has spent a lot of time, effort and energy, uh, marketing and pushing the message that it is an inclusive, diverse league. And, um, you know, really hangs their hat on that, but the data doesn't necessarily substantiate that. So I think it's important that, you know, the mechanisms are put in place to hold, hold the league accountable for all the things that it, that it makes public statements of and knowing that, you know, knowing that it takes time to actually execute on those things. And if you say so many things so often, sometimes it can be hard to keep track of all of it and hold people accountable, but that's what we're here for. So no worries about that. The perfect soccer community, the three S's of self-awareness self honesty, self initiative, self accountability, we're here upgrading the,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:38:26):

The, uh, the,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:38:29):

The soccer IQ of America, America one live at a

Quincy Amarikwa (00:38:36):

Time. Let's see. Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:38:48):

Just said Ray, for a funny story. So seeing the team chemistry was very motivating in terms of getting me through a third ACL surgery, especially the cam from Lenny and Gordo. So I got a custom Jersey, I'm assuming you got a custom Jersey. Oh, with them on it. That's dope. That's, that's a cool story. That's cool. A year, right?

Quincy Amarikwa (00:39:08):

Quincy Amarikwa (00:39:11):

That entertainment factor, that fun factor in the, those guys, you know, if that helped you get through, uh, your third ACL surgery, I mean, they were doing, they're doing meaningful, impactful work that, uh, That people can just see for the first time. Now that's pretty dope. You think about that. Speaking of, um, Hannah's, um, talking about long-term vision and long-term goals and making those decisions in the short term that people don't necessarily see, but we can see the long-term impact. So J J a J J one, two, three,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:39:49):

Uh, S uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:39:52):

Is given the, the bash brothers a solid shout out for helping him through a difficult, difficult time. So we're all connected. Everybody. I love that. That's a dope story. And that's what the perfect soccer platform's here for to kind of share those stories, those experiences. Um, it's a beautiful thing. Uh, S the S the E S T E B a N C underscore 14 said, what a coincidence LOL just saw the video of you trolling LA galaxy. Uh, where'd you see the video, uh, when was that and trolling or teaching them, teaching them valuable life lessons and MSL mentality, uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:40:43):

Skills controls

Quincy Amarikwa (00:40:46):

Another way of saying it, but that's, that's one way, but,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:40:50):

Um, but love that, um, let's see, which

Quincy Amarikwa (00:41:07):

The Bronx blue said, are you in a car? LOL? Yes, I'm in a car. So I'm on my I'm on my land and my land. I don't have the greatest service out here, but I've got one little spot on the land where I get solid service. So I drive out over to it and you guys know what it is. Every Thursday, 6:00 PM, PST 9:00 PM EST. We go live on the account, break down the MSL, talk to the community, uh, share these experiences. Um, and we'd make it work. We figure out what it is we need to do to make it work. And we make it work. No excuses, no excuses play like a champion.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:41:44):

Uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:41:45):

Yeah. Right. If it works, it works. Yup.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:41:50):

Yo uh, Pocus said it is what it is. Yes. So, I mean like

Quincy Amarikwa (00:42:08):

MLS has just been there hasn't been any for awhile and it's still going to be a little bit of time until that comes back. What's, uh, what's keeping your guys's attention. Like what's new, you, uh, learn in something new reading, new books, watching new, anything like what's, what's the deal. Joe Jackson said, adapter dime in your head emoji.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:42:32):

That's right. That's right. Uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:42:37):

As the said, uh, came up on my YouTube feed. Also watched your highlights on the MLS channel. Great stuff, man. Uh, thanks, man. I appreciate that. Unders under sticks it, I have an open trout for a professional team this Saturday. Is there any advice you have for this scenario?

Quincy Amarikwa (00:43:01):

Um, let's see. Well, yeah,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:43:06):

If you've done your research and, and you know about the organization, the coach, the staff, and like what they're looking for,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:43:15):

Um, stick to it.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:43:17):

You, what, you know, you're good at, don't try to do what you think they want you to do. If that isn't what you're already good at or trained for,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:43:29):

Or, or

Quincy Amarikwa (00:43:33):

Yeah. Specialized in. So I'll make it super simple. So like simplified, but like, so the concept is understood. So let's say you're, you have really good, long dirt, long, uh, long distance endurance. So you have really high stamina and you show up and you see, they really need sprinters. Don't change your game from a long stamina person to trying to sprint on that day, do what you're good at and what you do, because you might not get your opportunity there. But someone there might see your quality as a long-term endurance, stamina, sprinter, and speak highly of you for your next opportunity, as opposed to, if you jump ship and try to be a sprinter and you, that's not what you're optimized for. That's not what you're good at. You'll look bad as a spiritual you'll be thought of as a sprinter. And now maybe those other connections and people aren't even making like there, a lot of this is a lot of the game is how people perceive you and how they speak about you to others.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:44:37):

So if they see you on the day and you have a horrible session and you don't do well and you didn't do well, not because you're not a good player, but because you, you know, you started playing, you started trying to play to the moment. Well, you know, people who don't know, you might not give you that benefit of doubt and might not see that. So if someone else asks about you, they only have that frame of reference to speak about you and really quickly your brand and your name and your opportunities can become a non-existent. So that would be my advice,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:45:12):

Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:45:15):

Have that long-term view. I think everything's coming down a longterm vision, right? Know what you're good at commit to what you're good at, develop your craft at what you're were good at and, um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:45:28):

Remain committed to it.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:45:30):

And, um, try to create that long-term plan and vision and slow and steady wins the race. But you got to believe that I believe enough to, to commit to doing the work, even when you can't see results of the work that you're doing yet. I mean, that can always, they can get hard to remember and stick to you. Um, uh, I'm speaking to myself just as much as I'm speaking to you guys, when, when I'm, when I'm sharing this advice or sharing my thoughts or approach or how I think about it because, um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:46:02):

You know,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:46:03):

Got to practice. What I preach, uh, today was today was a tough day for me, right? And, and tough days are just part are part of it. They are not fun when they happen. And you, you tried, you, you got your ways of getting through them and moving through them as quickly as possible, but it's also important to recognize them and be grateful for them.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:46:26):

Um, because you know,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:46:32):

It tends to be the difficult times that help build your character and define who you want to be. So I'm speaking to long-term vision that can be difficult and difficult times realizing that that difficult time, this difficult moment will be something that you should hope to reflect back on in the future and be grateful for because it, it gave you an insight and experience a perspective that allowed you to get to where you want to be. Um, so if you can see that as a result in the future, bring that into now. So realize that, realize that in the moment and, um, pull yourself out.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:47:17):

And that's me talking myself through, pull myself out of a tough day. Um, our times our most valuable, we don't know how much have we, we've got, and we want to be grateful, um, for every minute, every second of it, but we can forget that because we're human, we make mistakes, but through making mistakes, if we choose, we can learn from those mistakes. Um, but yeah, those good questions, good luck at your trout. I hope, um, hope you get what you need from it. Uh, the rock said New York city FC, hasn't signed anyone. I think everyone's just trying to figure out how to get the CBE done. And if we're going to have a season, and then from there, you know, who do you sign and how, and when, like, that's been an interesting, like this last two years, obviously it's been interesting. Um, the whole free agency, you know, uh, just the whole soccer market has just kind of been flipped upside down. And like, this process has completely like,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:48:38):

Mm,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:48:39):

Foreign. But I think that also creates opportunity a lot of opportunities. So we'll see. I'm optimistic.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:48:46):

Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:48:49):

Let's see. David Goggins said can't hurt me. Such a good book. Oh, okay. David Goggins can't hurt me. Not, he said that that's the name of his book. Can't hurt me. It's such a good book. I haven't, I haven't read that. I've heard a lot of people speak about him. So, um, uh, speaking of someone who told me about it, I think it was Ben Ben Olson. So episode 100, if you guys didn't check episode 100 replays up on perfect separate skills.com with my former, uh, D uh, my former coach and former DC United coach Ben Olson, um, he had, he had sent me something about David Goggins saying that I had reminded him. I think it's like that day at practice, we had that edit, reminded him of, uh, reminded me of him. So, like I said, I've been hearing that, so I need to go and check out some of his stuff. See what he's all about? Um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:49:49):

Uh, yes. Okay. Uh, the community saying good luck with the tryout Anders. Uh, we look forward to the update next week. Yeah, that'd be dope. Uh, Oh, he's and he's from New York. So there we go. Okay. We've got a lot of East coast, new Yorkers, um, on the live, uh, today, uh, uh, Esther said get a Mohawk and paint it red. You'll stand out that way. Yeah. That's, that's a way to do it. Make sure your make sure you're, uh, you're fit and you're ready to go because a lot of attention is going to be on you. So make sure you, uh, over-deliver does like we do here on the perfect soccer platform over deliver, leave every exchange haven't given more than you received. Okay.

Quincy Amarikwa(00:50:30):

Um, let's see,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:50:35):

Uh, under, under said thank you. That is a point I had in mind. I'm trying to play my game and not fall into any temptations or other people's ideas. There you go. Good. So yeah, remain focused on that, man.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:50:49):

Uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:50:51):

Ryan said I wanted a chance to show my football. I'm your fan here in Brazil? Yo, shut up Brazil. I feel like we're getting more followers from Brazil as well. T joining in, um, joining the community. Uh, yeah. Well, you get yourself a perfect soccer subscription and you can, um, you can showcase your skills on your, uh, custom perfect cyber skills.com URL link to promote yourself to coaches and

Quincy Amarikwa (00:51:16):

In agents. Let's see.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:51:24):

And we got, we got like five more minutes here before we'll call it, uh, an evening. So if you guys get any more questions, drop them in the, either in the chat or

Quincy Amarikwa (00:51:35):

In the, you call it in the feed.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:51:40):

No, what I was looking for, I felt like it was trying to look for something,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:51:47):

Just

Quincy Amarikwa (00:51:47):

Getting stuff together, like doing a little bit too much, you know, you guys know it is, I've been doing a little bit too much and trying to, I've been trying to dial back and really, uh, focusing on Things that I want to spend my time doing and, and removing the things that I don't want to be doing.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:52:07):

Um, more quickly.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:52:11):

I think sometimes I take too long to, um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:52:15):

Quincy Amarikwa (00:52:16):

Drop things. I know I probably should, but,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:52:19):

Um, uh, I'm, uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:52:22):

I'm like a romantic when it comes to, um, my optimism. I just want more, a little bit more. It can be difficult with long-term winners mindset and being committed to things for longterm. Um, one of your blind spots is knowing when, when it's time to move on to something else or to pivot.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:52:41):

Quincy Amarikwa (00:52:42):

There's positive and negative to it.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:52:45):

And, uh, you know,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:52:48):

Focused on trying to get better at it every day. I'm seeing, uh, the Bronx spam, that

Quincy Amarikwa(00:52:52):

Heart button, um,

Quincy Amarikwa (00:53:00):

Uh, Jesse, I gotta head out same plant tomorrow cake cake, but your team go, uh, Brock said, what time did the live start? You know, come on, man, come on, man. Every Thursday, 6:00 PM, PST 9:00 PM EST on the app. Perfect. Underscore soccer, Instagram account. That's when the, the ASCA soccer pro show live.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:53:25):

Um, he

Quincy Amarikwa (00:53:26):

Said, next time I can promote the stream on my story, because I obviously have nothing else to post. There you go. You got a teamwork, makes the dream work. We got to start building the community more so we can just, we can make it more cross-promotional and, um, everyone can become aware of everybody else's niche, content, um, uh, area of expertise, you know? Um, Oh, thinking of that. Okay. So a new perfect soccer, perfect soccer order just came through. Let's see. Let's see what that individual just ordered. Okay. So Xavier just got himself. Ooh. Okay. He got a perfect soccer.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:54:11):

I got a perfect soccer, sweat, uh, weather sweater. I'm trying to hold on, make sure to showcases shipping information. So it came through, I don't know that one just came through three days ago. Okay. This one, now that was ex-Navy. Okay. Xavier ordered something three days ago. Let's see what we got here. Okay. I think this is the first order of the men's joggers. So should a minute, a minute ago. Can I flip it? Yeah. Okay. So MSL all over men's joggers. I can't really see it too much. Just came in. Thank you for the order one, uh, Texas, appreciate that. Um, you know, like I said, you guys were adding weight, uh, way more products to the store. Lots of merchants. And if you guys have any ideas, design ideas and stuff that you want made or created, we'll get those done and added to, uh, add it to the store ASAP.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:55:19):

Uh, but like I was saying, yeah, like cross-promoting each other, um, sharing what each other's specialties and, and, um, and passions are for the game. Cause like you said, like there, I think there's just a couple of new Yorkers joined in on the live tonight, another aware of the Bronx and the Bronx blues. And I'm aware that the Bronx, Bronx blues has a, uh, a stream. So there you go. That's a community. You guys know what it is. Your network is your net worth teamwork equals dreamwork. And as I say that John Hollinger joins in because John knows teamwork equals dreamwork. Um, Yoshi said, yo, Quincy, I've got training right now, but just wanted to stop by and say, what's up. Hey, thanks for stopping by. I appreciate it. Even if you guys can only pop in for a quick hot second, I, I value your time and appreciate you spending some time here with me.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:56:18):

Um, John said, how's the club search going for 20, 21, to be honest, uh, I haven't been going full on it yet, mainly because there wasn't any like set date. And usually because there's no one, there's no set date, a lot of clubs and organizations are just kind of like spinning their wheels in limbo because they're not going to give you any definitive answers because they don't have one. I'm not saying like that's the best or the smartest way to go about doing it, but Hey, everyone has their own way of doing stuff. So now that that's kind of in place and there's more clarity around that. Um, and with the experience that I had of just realizing like the results of last year, a lot of clubs reassessed their entire business model structure, um, reassessed, how they bring in players. And if you've guys have been noticing like the average age of players that they're bringing in and signing are definitely much, much younger, which is okay in many, many regards.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:57:19):

And I understand why a lot of them are thinking that, but what they're missing out in on is you definitely need your O G veterans to properly teach these youngsters how to be good pros and how to develop into, uh, reaching their fullest potential. Because a lot of players have a lot of potential. Right. But, um, is one thing execution is another. And, um, I think, uh, the most forward thinking clubs will snatch up veteran talent soon. Yeah. And if they don't, then I don't think they're very forward-thinking and they will struggle. And I'm just saying that because it's true. And you guys already know the truth is true, whether you believe it or not, just like we told everyone 2020 is about the vision we've been saying. We had been saying that well before the pandemic was a thing and anyone knew about it. Well before 2020, one's about the frequincy, the frequincy, uh, in my free agency, 2021, the frequincy while we're dialed in, who you think is going to be riding that forward, thinking wave a smart organization that can recognize high value assets. That's who let's see. Let's see. Yeah. We'll start wrapping it up here.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:59:01):

He had, John said, teamwork makes the dream work. Seeing everyone's spamming that hard by them loving that, uh, Brock said, I should get all my fellow New York city FC fans to read these streams, come join, come join. We'd love to have you, um, love to have you. And uh, you got to get out there advocating for advocating and promoting, and I'm telling people to make sure they're paying attention to my boy. Sean Johnson mans is about to make waves here. Uh, let's see, uh, Joe Jackson said, I know we're almost done here again. Quincy just want to say great. Live, always love it and have a great weekend or have a great week. Thank you very much, Joe. I appreciate that right back out, right back into my brother. You know, so that's, that's a wrap. We'll wrap it up there, everybody. I appreciate you joining in for, uh, episode one Oh three of the hashtag ask a soccer pro show. The Brock said, Sean Johnson, that is correct. Uh, who you guys are, what 2021 is about to bring some will say they did. They couldn't see it coming. No one could predict that. But those who are down in the MSL know that that is not true.

Quincy Amarikwa (01:00:25):

Uh, uh, w we need to get an MSL group chat on IgG. Uh, I know we got a Facebook group. Yeah. Like I said, community outreach, yo, shout out Hannah, bringing her on with the intern, um, as an intern to help with that. Cause I need, I need a lot of help with the community management of our Instagram groups or Facebook groups and stuff. Cause those are great ideas. I, I love them. Um, I just don't have the, I don't have the bandwidth to properly dedicate the time and attention necessary to, uh, facilitate like the day to day. But if you guys are down for that and helping me build that out, um, please send me a send, uh, send an email to [email protected]. Yeah. If you guys are down to help with community management and kind of tying these things together and for the, long-term not just like a, you know, I'm due for a week or two weeks, I'm talking about like, even if we're just doing it like once a week or once every other week for the next like six months, at least so we can get an idea of it makes sense.

Quincy Amarikwa (01:01:28):

And people like it and they participate then, uh, send an email, let me know you want to be an intern and we'll kind of get that process going. Um, cause I need help with that. I need to help with a lot of stuff. Everyone I'm going gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I need help with a lot of things. So if you guys are open to helping, I'm open to receiving help. So, uh, thanks again to everybody who joined in. I appreciate all the questions, all the positive vibes and um, yeah. Uh, see everybody same time, same place next week, just in case the Bronx forgot it's 6:00 PM. PST 9:00 PM EST every Thursday on the app. Perfect. Underscore soccer, Instagram account. And as always everybody, you know what it is, I mean, you had later.

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How Having Cancer Helped Chris Odoi Realize That Soccer Ball May Not Last Forever

The #AskASocerPro show is a Live video podcast where 11 year MLS vet and Mental Strength Coach Quincy Amarikwa dives into the mentalities of highly successful individuals both on and off the pitch. In this weeks episode Chris Odoi discussed about biggest misconception on being a MLS player, What does he do off the field, his favorite memory and more.

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4:22-6:42 Chris Odoi - MSL Mentee Joins The #AskASoccerPro Show!

6:43-9:20 Chris Odoi on how the Long Term Winners Mindset influences his decisions.

9:21-16:16 How Having Cancer Helped Chris Odoi Realize That Soccer May Not Last Forever, And What He Did About It.

16:17-22:11 Chris Odoi On How Fear Affects Him.

24:14-31:18 Chris Odoi on his biggest misconception on being a MLS player @markbtackett

31:19-36:15 What does Chris Odoi’s plan look like post career? @joe.jackson11

37:25-39:20 What does Chris Odoi do off the field to help him become a better player? @is.umar_

39:21-45:00 Why Chris Odoi uses the Perfect Soccer Time Management Worksheet

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47:40-51:12 Chris Odoi’s favorite memory from playing with Quincy

51:24-53:47 New competition between MSL Mentee’s Earl Edwards Jr. and Chris Odoi.

53:48-57:12 A Little Trash Talk And Why YOU MUST Purchase Your Perfect Soccer Subscription.

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57:13-59:18 How To Stay Up To Date With Chris Odoi And His Story.

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Quincy Amarikwa (00:00):

We're all here to ride the MSL waves. You've mentioned the strength lead. I'd like to welcome you to another episode of the hashtag ask eight soccer pro [inaudible] art what's going on. RF. K refugees. Welcome. Welcome Eden EDI en. Welcome in Joe Jackson, Connor Johnson. Shannon, what up? Hi, David loud artists. What's going on? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Looking forward to today's episode and today's guest. Oh man. Almost, even. I got so excited for today's guest. I forgot to get, I forgot to download his graphics. Uh, what's going on? I'm doing well. Soccer, soccer sub podcast dropped by what's going on, Matt. What's happening. What's happening. Let's see. Um, yeah, I'm not going to be able to pull it up. Cause the internet at my house of residence is not, is not doing too hot right now. Um, spending that hard button, but all right, let's get into it because 2020 one's about that frequency.

Quincy Amarikwa (01:11):

I'm getting dialed in. I'm excited for today and I'm also excited for the, the, the, I don't even know how to describe it, but let's get into what I've got here. And, um, as we prepare for today's show guest, so, uh, what's going on everybody. Welcome to another episode of the hashtag. Ask a soccer pro show. I am your host. 12 year pro MLS cup champion, MLS comeback Claire, the year UC Davis hall of fame member, black players for change founder and MSL coach Quincy America. Now what is the MSL? You may be asking yourself, well, that's what we're here to discuss and break down every Thursday, 6:00 PM, PST 9:00 PM EST live here on the perfect soccer, Instagram account, the mental strength league. I mean, you had, uh, dropped those Ivan. You had emojis if you're down in the MSL and for those of you who are just now tuning into this frequency, hopefully you like what I did there.

Quincy Amarikwa (02:14):

It's a game of 40 chess, one where you're either aware and an active participant or you're upon in the game steady getting played. So what is the MSL? It is the mindset you need to accomplish your goals. Why should you have this mindset? So you can learn how to learn, why learn, how to learn? Well. So you can know how, and when you were stopping yourself from achieving your goals and what to do about it. And when does this mindset start? Well, when you take responsibility for where you are, even if where you are, isn't your fault and put forth a plan to learn what you need to, to continue forward. So if you guys are ready for two days episode, I'm going to need you guys to spam that heart button and drop below what you're excited for, uh, with today's episode as well, those humming your head, emojis, loving that, loving that love, and that love in that.

Quincy Amarikwa (03:05):

Uh, Joe Jackson already dropping them in your head emojis. Uh POBA Jr. Trevor Willis increased football, yo Jordan, what's going on, um, loving that scene. Everyone has spending the heart button and, uh, while everybody is doing that, sharing with me, what you're excited for today's episode in today's show guests, I'm going to give you guys a quick word from today's sponsor yet. So today's episode is brought to you by perfect soccer. The number one platform online to talk to learn from and work with pro soccer players. Sign up for your perfect soccer subscription today [email protected] slash subscriptions subscription that's subscription subscription, right? So this is for youth players to pros, coaches and parents get access to everything you'd ever need on your soccer journey with your perfect soccer subscription. Again, head over to perfect soccer skills.com/subscription today, and shout out Joe Jackson for dropping that link for everybody on the live here as they're spamming at heart button to sign up because an investment in perfect soccer, is that an investment in yourself?

Quincy Amarikwa (04:14):

You guys know what it is [inaudible] and, uh, I'm excited for today's show guest. We're having a future legend. I wouldn't even know, say future legend, current legend and future double legend. Chris, a, uh, my old teammate over at DC United and an MSL mentee of mine. Mans has been doing work and has an amazing story. Um, I'm excited to bring him on here today. Uh, uh, give the audience a little bit of breakdown of his mentality. I'll even let him share a little bit, um, let him, uh, we'll have him share a little bit of his story for those of you who aren't aware of, uh, where he's been and, um, get an idea of where he's going and, uh, any questions that you guys have, make sure you drop them in the comment or in the question box here. And I think I saw Chris had already joined in, so let me send him that so we can get him in here and get going. Uh, uh, Justin Mauro dropped in the live. What's going on brother say Chris's late. That's that's a fine where I come from, bro. Chris is not late. Mans was on time. He's been patiently waiting, uh, even patiently waiting cause I've I'm coming correct with the, uh, the official, the official introduction to the show. What's going on, brother? How you doing brother? And you're the actual legend man. I me bro. Hey, come on bro. Come on, come on, bro. You'll make me bless you're on the live. You know, yo love that.

Quincy Amarikwa (06:04):

Yo, I love that man. Repping the long-term winner's mindset, you know, uh, man, I pull up now you're making me, uh, relive good times. Um, I'm thinking about when we had the t-shirts, uh, at preseason 2020, uh, I saw you, I, the long-term winners mindset t-shirt immediately and say that that's me. That was mine. I mean, Hey, I need that. I need does it. Okay. Bet, bro. This is the only one I have, but facts it's yours. Yeah, no, I'm happy to see you still got it, brother. What a man. I know we'll, we'll end up talking about a whole bunch of stuff as we typically do. Uh, what, what made you, uh, what made you go for that, that shirt? What about that was, what about that represents you?

Quincy Amarikwa (06:52):

Yeah, the long-term mindset, something I really picked up off of you. That's something that you preached in our conversation, several conversations throughout our year together, um, you know, before go, the beating you and talking to you and learning your mindset. I was very stern sort term with my thinking and how I went day by day and how I went about life. Um, you know, just take a sort term for quick reference. You know, first couple of years in a lead, I wasn't really thinking about life after soccer. You know, like I'm a professional soccer player, things are going okay. You know, I'm not going to be here for awhile. Not thinking that anything can change at any moment. Uh, and things did. And my career was we'll probably get into a little later, which kind of starts shifting my mindset and that in addition with meeting you and talking to you and having our conversations, uh, so now more of a long-term thinker in terms of the way I operate.

Quincy Amarikwa (07:55):

That's awesome, man. No, I appreciate, I mean, I appreciate that and it's, it's cool, man. It's been cool to really see your progress and your process, you know, just like, uh, initially meeting you in DC, watching, watching you watch me and Earl just have long debates in the, in the locker room, uh, you know, helping me better understand, you know, your approach and how you think about things and you know, always, I will always tell you, you know what I mean? Like I learned just as much, I think I feel I learned even more from you, you know what I mean? Like, and I've always appreciated how open you've been in, in, um, your willingness to like recognize where you're at. Like, I, I guess my main thing I'm getting around to the directing is like, there's a, it's, it's a skillset of knowing you don't know everything, but also confident that you do know, you know, what you know, and you're good at what you do.

Quincy Amarikwa (08:59):

You know what I mean? So it's like, it's, it's a, it's a good, it's a good balance. And um, I always thought you did a really great job of that. And um, it's just been cool to see how that progressed over time. Um, you, you, of, you touched on it a little bit in terms of what might've kind of, kick-started your, Hey, you know, soccer doesn't doesn't necessarily, might not last forever. Um, w you want to give us a little bit of, uh, of your, of your story, you know, uh, of it, of what you'd like to share and, and, and what that process has been like for you.

Quincy Amarikwa (09:34):

Yeah, sure. So, um, I guess I'll take it back a little bit. Just give people a little bit of my background. Uh, Chris had deleted sham, my full name. If you didn't know, going into my fifth year of professional soccer with DC United, uh, born and raised in Maryland. So I'm from this area I've been here my whole life pretty much. And I think that's where it all stems from. You know, I think I've lived, uh, you know, a very good life, especially growing up. My parents worked very hard to give me all the resources I needed in order to be successful. You know, whether it was the, the schools I went to growing up, or, uh, finally it's to go to a better team. You know, growing up the team was an hour away. The practice was our way. Parents made that sacrifice to get me there in order to become a better player.

Quincy Amarikwa (10:25):

And I think that's where it was like, I was just, I was pretty much in a comfortable position for most of my life. Um, and that lasted a long time, you know, as I progressed and got older, uh, soccer was always pretty comfortable. I was always one of the better players in the area in high school. My junior year, the team that at school would, I was wanting to go to Maryland, can call her. And so I committed early my junior year, I got to Maryland four years started there. Uh, so, you know, this was all comfortable, but once I got to my procreate, that's when things got shaken up a little bit and started becoming a little uncomfortable for me. Uh, 2017, I got drafted to DC United, uh, two weeks into my first pre-season. I got hurt, got an injury was out for a couple of weeks, came back, got sent, uh, the USL team Richmond, uh, at the time.

Quincy Amarikwa (11:17):

And, uh, I couldn't even play there. You know, I, I knew I was not having a chance of playing with the first thing and I was fine with that. I'll get my experience. And he goes, so it's hard to get my chance for the first thing. I go down to USL and I can't even get on the field there, you know, I'm like a month or two in my career and I'm like, I'm play in the USL. Like maybe I'm not cut out for this, you know, just hard on myself and my mentality wasn't right at the time. But, uh, eventually that might've been a good thing. Uh, since I was playing there, then he kept me at DC and train. I started quickly Franny and eventually like an injury happened. I started getting back into the, to the roster and the best of planning and starting games.

Quincy Amarikwa (12:00):

So it worked out in the, uh, in the end. So my first year was okay towards the end of the year. I got hurt again. Um, and then 2018 happened my second year in the league. I had a decent first year, so I'm expecting my second year to be even better. I'm trying to take it up a notch and make a true impact in the league. And that wasn't the case at all. Uh, immediately just started dealing with injuries. My second year had the surgery and then I was just always, uh, not feeling good, not feeling right. Something was always wrong. I didn't know what it was. I was going to the team telling them something's off something, you know, can, can I get checked out, find something, they couldn't find anything wrong with me. I got in my head and started thinking like, Oh man, they must think I'm lying or making the sub that out.

Quincy Amarikwa (12:47):

I was like, man, maybe I'm not cut out for this. You know, just went to a bad path. And towards the end of the year, it came out that I had possibly as my former, uh, form of blood cancer. So, you know, uh, went through, you know, obviously that's a very life-changing event that happened for me. And, uh, you know, that's when I really picked up the idea that man, like my career really could have been over at any time and the time I'd spend off the field. I wasn't really preparing myself for life after soccer. You know, it was more of coming home and taking a big nap for two, two and a half hours, uh, playing video games that Alize the grant, whatever, you know, just not being very productive with my free time when we have so much free time as professional soccer players.

Quincy Amarikwa (13:39):

Uh, so, you know, I went through chemotherapy, eventually made it back on the field and, uh, you know, that's that following year 2019 is when I met you. So, uh, the combination of, you know, having a cancer and going through that experience and then meeting you, someone with your mindset, just the combination of those things together just really had me motivated to start just doing things that were better for, for my life. Maybe after soccer or just putting in the work. Now, changing my mentality on certain things, certain things that you pointed out, maybe some flaws in me that you would point out, but, uh, with you, the type of person you are being so selfless. And even though you pointed out these flaws in me, you were willing and more than able to help me throw them and helped me work on them. And the amount of time that we spent like having conversations, man, it was a lot throughout the year, but I was appreciated you spending that time, like passing on your knowledge and information that you accumulated over your lifetime and your career and your willingness to pass that on to anybody who was willing to listen as everybody here in perfect soccer knows, uh, that you have, that you have, that you have that mindset and that you have that get to pass that on to other people.

Quincy Amarikwa (15:01):

So that's not my story. That's kind of how I changed my mindset. And I'm still working on still constant process. I still fall short a lot of times, but, uh, you know, I'm still trying to go up and up, uh, as, as life goes on,

Quincy Amarikwa (15:15):

Man, I love that, man. You gave me teary-eyed over here, bro. Might try to try to make me cry over here on my show, bro. That's that's I mean, I, I appreciate that. That's like, that means a lot. I, um, um, yeah, but I wasn't expecting to hear that, man. I just was, I was just always, uh, focused on hopefully trying to share how to avoid many mistakes that I made because I've made, I made a whole lot of them and I'm sure you saw me make a whole, a whole lot more, even, even in our time in, uh, in DC. Right. Uh, but as you know, and we talked about here on the show with the three S's of self-awareness, you know, like, um, making mistakes is part of the process and being, being open to criticism and self reflection and self-awareness is, is, is key right?

Quincy Amarikwa (16:09):

To accomplishing your goals, said it, I said it a little bit earlier here in the intro of what the, a, what the MSM mindset is. And, uh, I think something that you pointed out as well as like, you, you fall short, but you're falling forward, you know, and if you've got the long-term winners mindset, you know, a loss or a setback, um, even you had mentioned it, um, when you were talking about, uh, when you got sent down to the USL very early in your, your, you know, your first year looking back on it, it's a positive, but during, it's not, it's not so positive. Right.

Quincy Amarikwa (16:46):

He talked about the, um, the state of self doubt, uh, questioning, am I cut out for this? You know, is it me? Is it the system? Is it, you know, it's a very uncomfortable, uh, face and I think what's great. What's great in your story and you sharing that is, um, a lot of players, parents, coaches, um, don't see that side of the game, right. They don't, they don't, they don't hear about that. That's not spoken to very frequently or often. And, um, it, it can, it can make people feel as though they're alone or they're by themselves, you know, they're by themselves in that. Um, so I, I think it's a amazing, your willingness to kind of share that and, um, and, and be so open. Um, when most people would be very scared, be very scared to be. Um, and, and that makes me even think about, uh, the, the conversations and, and, uh, jokes and stuff we'd have in the locker room about me always teasing you about being hella scary all the time. Right. Uh, okay. What, what do you, what do you think that, like, you know, I obviously I have my thoughts as to what it, what it is or what I think it to be, but like, for you, like, do you feel like those were rational fears? Do you think, like they're healthy? Like how, how do you describe what fear is? Like, what does fear to you?

Quincy Amarikwa (18:17):

Fear to me, I would say is the unknown. Um, so like our previous previously said, you know, I was always pretty much in a comfortable position and then didn't really care too much for too much change, you know? Uh, so, you know, fear to me is it's probably changed stepping into the unknown. And you were quick to point that out and said, do what you say. You're scared of just scary that I, I didn't like you saying that, but at the same time, you know, the fact that I realized, man, this question seems to send me like, this must be a real thing with me. Like, how do I, how do I work on, or how do I flex on it? And, you know, he gave me some great advice with that. And he said anything that's, you're, you're afraid of, or, uh, apprehensive to do, man, just step into it and see what you're scared of. He's like half the time, your head step in there and you look around, you're like, man, like I shouldn't, I shouldn't have got scared at all. You know, this isn't too bad that I, so, you know, I've tried to take that. So try to apply that. It's how to do things that, you know, a few years ago there was no chance I would have been doing so for sure, appreciate you for the poking at me, uh, to get, to get better.

Quincy Amarikwa (19:37):

Yeah. Not, uh, not everybody's too happy with my approach. Right. Uh, in the short term, um, the goal and hope is that in the long-term right. Um, it seemed for what it, what it's meant to be, which is a love, you know what I mean? Like I see your puppy. I see, I see where you are and I also see what you can become and what, you know, you can become for yourself. Right. Um, but nothing, nothing of greatness happens staying in your comfort zone, always, you know? And, um, it doesn't mean you're always going to step into step into the unknown and everything's going to go great. Sometimes it's gonna, it's going to go terribly wrong, but that also is an opportunity to learn. And I think you've, you've done it in your own way. And, and, uh, you know, you did the work I could, I could, you know, I can pull it out or call it out and tease you or, you know, encourage you, or however you want to, you know, someone might look at it as teasing and someone else looks at it as encouragement.

Quincy Amarikwa (20:43):

Right. Motivation. Um, so, and, and, and we talk a lot about that here. Right? Take negativity or positivity, or take negativity and turn it into positivity and take positivity and utilize it no matter what, it's energy. Right. So how are you going to utilize the energy to focus the attention people give you positive or negative? Um, so, uh, it's, it's no, it's, it's cool to, it's cool to see it. It's really cool to hear, because my point is really, you still have to do the work that matter if I call it out or pointed out, right? Like you're doing the work, your, your self reflect your step when you could maybe do more or when you need to do less, you know, cause you know, we're not all the same. We don't all have the same background, the same advantages disadvantages. And, um, what works for me might not work for you. Um, but your willingness to kind of, like I said, here, be confident in, in what, you know, but also open to seeing and hearing other things. I always, I always thought was a very valuable and, and um, impactful attribute that you have and, um, hopefully hopefully more clubs see that, understand that and, uh, and value that here moving forward. I, I, I think they will, if they're the smart ones will at least broke.

Quincy Amarikwa (22:11):

Um, okay. So let me see here. So everybody, uh, so obviously obviously a bunch of people are spending the heart button love and the love and the conversation so far, and a lot that you're talking about, um, uh, if anyone's got any questions, make sure questions for Chris, drop them in the, in the chat box here below also I'll look through the, um, Oh, Kevin joined in and said what up, um, tournament. Okay guys, you're talking about the tournament. What's uh, uh, uh, let's see. You always end up falling behind on the, on the scrolling here. Um, yeah, I've ever been on, this is your first live bro for something new, right? Yo, shout out.

Quincy Amarikwa (23:06):

I love that, man. You know, the, uh, it's very, uh, uh, we had DWP Bradley, right. Phillips was on. I want to say like episode, Oh man. Now to my knowledge. But, um, he came on, it was his first Instagram live as well to mans didn't know nothing about it. I was just like, what? Let's go, what up? Let's do it. Yeah. It was a great episode. So it was like, I respect that. That is a quality that a lot of people had, so they got to be prepared, perfectly love that. Uh, okay. So let's see what we got here, uh, at camp Kendall had said through adversity comes greatness and then dropped her I'm in the head and her I'm in the head. I'm in your head emojis. Uh, Kevin Perez said that boy, Chris is different. Right.

Quincy Amarikwa (24:02):

Having a different breed backs. Right.

Quincy Amarikwa (24:10):

Um, let's see.

Quincy Amarikwa (24:14):

Okay. So we got Mark Tackett, Mark [inaudible], um, asked, uh, what was your biggest misconception about being an MLS player?

Quincy Amarikwa (24:25):

Biggest misconception.

Quincy Amarikwa (24:27):

Okay.

Quincy Amarikwa (24:37):

Like prior to being a player and then realized that once I get in trouble, once I get that

Quincy Amarikwa (24:43):

Yeah. Let's, let's go. Um, let's go with that.

Quincy Amarikwa (24:54):

Probably I bought, I was more prepared for the adversity. Like the first thing that I mentioned, you know, I was prepared not to play right away for the first team, but, you know, I thought for sure I'd be able to play, uh, start in the USO and it wasn't, I wasn't even getting into that. That was just a real rude awakening for me, uh, that I had to go through, but you know, maybe better in the long run. So, uh, yeah, I would say that, uh, that maybe not easy to play in MLS, but definitely in the USO. I thought I was well prepared for that.

Quincy Amarikwa (25:36):

Okay. I like, okay. So then what was it that you were missing at that time? Like, cause clearly you figured it out, right? Like where you figured out what you needed to do, what, what, what did you get comfortable? What were you too comfortable with? And like, how did you under S how did you, how did you underestimate it so greatly?

Quincy Amarikwa (26:02):

You know, I thought it was just a given that, okay, the first thing sends me down to USO are going to be playing and, and starting and getting my minutes because you're not allowed. That's how it works. And I think five of us were sent down from the first team and all the, all of the four others were starting to play the whole game. And I'm there sitting on the bench, the whole game. I'm like, like, like what's up with me? Like, what am I doing? And then I started seeing him, I played my play, started to decrease until just like all mentality. I was like, man, I'm like, good for this look good enough for this level. So, you know, that's what it was for me. And it was, it was hard to get out of that, but, you know, eventually they call me back to the first team to train and that's when I started helping my game and improving at a fast rate. But, you know, if they had left me there, I don't know what else would have happened to be honest.

Quincy Amarikwa (26:57):

Gotcha. So what, what did you, what did you hone in on focus in on, like, what was your kind of North star?

Quincy Amarikwa (27:06):

Uh, what do you mean? Exactly?

Quincy Amarikwa (27:09):

So like you, you, you went down, you weren't expecting that you weren't playing, you got kind of like a second opportunity at getting back up to the first team and getting some, some training. What, what about once you got back? What did you focus on? So that, that, that wouldn't happen to you. So like you focused on the, how you felt not being involved and that made you work harder. Um, and if so, like what did you work harder at? Like what did you stop taking for granted? What did you stop? Um, what did you stop thinking was a given?

Quincy Amarikwa (27:49):

Yeah, for sure. I didn't want to feel that feeling again. So when I get back, got back to DC training, I was prepared to go back down. But, uh, when I did go back down, I was like, okay, I'm gonna be ready next time I go back for sure. So it was just things like, uh, going to training and even staying at the training, you know, knowing our assistant coach Nolan, he was helping me a lot. He was the guy who I was talking to a lot throughout that time and helping me focus on certain things after practice, maybe it was after practice, I've stayed a little later within maybe 20, 20 crosses or something like that. There's different parts of my game, just trying to get better at the round, out my game. Um, so whenever I was, you know, as me thinking, going back to USAA, I'll be ready, but it came to the point where the opportunity opened up for me with the first team. And I think I took full advantage of it when I was, uh, put in there, you know, start playing games, subbing in and definitely started starting the games. And, you know, I think my first year after I played, you know, good to, uh, above average, you know, every game support supper, maybe one game, I had a bad game, but other than that, I was pretty consistent or, uh, really felt like I belonged after that.

Quincy Amarikwa (29:06):

Love that. Okay. So, so you, you got a slice of humble pie, right? And then had to be honest with yourself about that and know that you didn't want to feel that again, you got, you, you took self initiative, cause you said I'm not going to make that mistake again. And I'm going to do additional work prepared for the next time. And then you held yourself accountable to that, to the point that you didn't even have to end up getting sent back down. Cause it's almost like you learned your lesson and you started accelerating growing quickly from that, from that experience. So I like that, man, that's active, that's active, uh, execution of the three S's of self-awareness man.

Quincy Amarikwa (29:47):

No, the last part self, uh, accountability. That's a big part that I feel like sometimes I like to just stay consistent and disciplined and that, uh, uh, and when I'm doing so for that year, you know, I was pretty consistent with doing quite a bit of extra work after training. And I think I really hope, and I should be doing more of it now to be honest, but yeah,

Quincy Amarikwa (30:13):

No, I follow you. I think, I think that's the one that can get most difficult because when you hold yourself accountable, it becomes habit and routine and then that becomes comfortable, you know? And, and then I think I talk about it. We talk about a lot. I talk about it here on the show, you know, what got you here might not get you there. And especially at the professional sports level, right? It's, there's constantly someone that's coming for your spot. So we talk about, you know, adapt or die. You got to adapt times change and sometimes they change real quick, you know? And, um, uh, I think understanding your strengths and your weaknesses is, is crucial to developing a long-term winner's mindset and surviving, you know, uh, for the, for the longterm. So I think, yeah, I think your experience is very unique and your perspective is extremely unique. And, and because of that, I think it only will, it only helps you Excel in the professional, in the professional world, you know, and, um, I think, uh, that's kind of a good, good, uh, transition into the next question that came in from, uh, from Joe Jackson. Um, he had asked, uh, what, uh, what do you want to do after your career, or what do you think be interested in,

Quincy Amarikwa (31:31):

Hey, great question. Um, I'm still working on that, trying to figure exactly what I want to do post career. And I don't know if you wanted to bring that up or I can bring it up now, but, uh, I'll be starting the internship actually with, uh, Quincy and perfect soccer learning under him. I think that's just, it's just a great time for me, you know, I spent almost the last year or two really learning and doing, going through personal development and things like that, but I think it's now it's time to put things into action. So, you know, things came up maybe possibly going back to school or maybe get a MBA or something like that. But, uh, you know, our conversation has made you Quincy and you vastly brought up this idea of me, you know, really working under you and learning and helping you at perfect soccer. And I thought it was a great opportunity. So, uh, you know, you're going to have me in different roles and positions to figure out what I like best. And I think it would give me more of a clarity to figure out which direction I want to go post career.

Quincy Amarikwa (32:37):

And, uh, was, Joe had asked that question yet. And, uh, I was excited. I'm excited to announce that, uh, yeah, Chris will be joining as a perfect soccer intern starting out here, um, with us. Um, we've had, you know, several, several interns in the past so far and some have become a full members of our, of the perfect soccer team. Um, some have kind of moved on into other industries and areas and it's, uh, it's been an amazing process. Um, Chris has helped us with our newly updated onboarding process, which has been awesome and, uh, creating a space where like he had mentioned, he can kind of, um, figure out where he wants to go because as a lot of, um, our followers and members, um, struggled with is, you know, how do I figure out what it is that I want to do? How do I know what I want to do?

Quincy Amarikwa (33:29):

That's like, that's a big task, you know, and a lot of people just put it on delay and they procrastinate, right. Cause they're just like, ah, I'll do it later. I'll figure it out later. I'll figure it out later. And very similar where you said, Hey, as a pro player, you got a lot of time, right? As a, as a, you know, a kid in high school in junior high kid in elementary school kid in college, you, you have a lot of time, you know, and, um, working and at a slow pace to figure that out is better than delaying it. So you said you've been, you've been researching personal development learning kind of tasting a little bit here and there over the last two years. And in that two year time, then it said, Hey, I think I want to, I want to dabble in this.

Quincy Amarikwa (34:15):

I know you're doing, you were trying to, you're a little bit of re real estate and you know, stock market. And I mean, I think my point is people think that you have to have it all figured out right away and from the beginning. And that's not the case, you know, that that's not the case at all. And, um, hopefully here with conversations like this and a big reason why I wanted to have you as a, you know, episode one Oh two of the show is, um, creating that space. So we have the room to figure it out. You know, we're not going to know everything. We're going to make mistakes. You can try something and that will maybe let you know that you don't want anything to do with it. And it's okay. Let's move on to something else. But let's also, let's also make sure we have a plan that we can commit to, um, over time, this is that longterm winners mindset.

Quincy Amarikwa (35:04):

I'm just, I'm just seeing, I'm just like your ex you're just you're executing on it. Right. You're living it. And, um, it, I guess it makes me reflect on like being in the locker room and I can be preaching it and saying it, and then it can be, I act, Quincy, Quincy, just talk him just the same old thing. Right. And I get that, right. Like, that's good, good. If I get tired and you're, you're sick of hearing me. That means you, at least you heard me say, you know, if, and when you hit that typical time or that road or whatever, if, if, if that story is helpful, cool. I did my job. Right. That's how I'm looking at it. And, uh, E being on this side, in terms of just seeing the results of the work that you've been doing in your free time, right?

Quincy Amarikwa (35:54):

Like when no, one's looking, holding yourself accountable, taking initiative, being honest with yourself, like the results speak, you know, and I, I think it's been well-deserved and I think you've earned. I think you've earned it, you know? So I'm, I'm just, uh, I'm proud of what you've been doing. And, um, I'm excited for, for what's what's to come and your future man. And, uh, you got other, uh, you got other fans, uh, uh, Philippe joined in, gave away. Yeah. Uh, uh, Earl, Earl Edwards Jr. Came and said, ah, I'm mad. I missed the first half of this one. Let me see. Okay. Yeah. So like I said, I'll fall behind on the step. Okay. So Earl's on Earl said for everyone watching Quincy, Chris and I sat side by side in the DC locker room and would have Cabos just like this every day for hours. Um, it was, it was our intro into the MSL life-changing, uh, Facebook. And he said, yeah, four hours. Yeah. You said four hours, but four hours. Isn't far off LOL. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you got, uh, Christina dropped, uh I'm in your head emojis, uh, jaw. Oh yeah. W it was a jaw had said, Oh, just finish a sweaty run. Didn't want to, didn't want to, but I'm part of the MSL school. I, uh, let's see. I think I saw another question for you. Come in here. Um, okay. Is dot Umar, U U M a R underscore said, Hey, Chris, what's the number one thing you do off the field that helps you progress as a player?

Quincy Amarikwa (37:36):

How I spend my time though, like I said, I used to spend it not being productive at all waste of time. It was just cool. Like, you just have to find a balance that works for you, but you can't be all one end of the spectrum too much. So before, when it was solely like TV, NABS, whatever, now it's more learning like, like you had previously said, learning about investing in real estate, investing in a stock market, you know, something that can set me up for, for the future, uh, you know, and continue to develop. So, uh, I've taken certain courses. They have free courses online, uh, that spend time on, uh, financial literacy course was kind of introductory me too, but I found another one on my own. Just how to better manage my money on my home and stuff like that. Uh, what else I spent my time doing, uh, um, I cook a lot now. Uh, you know, I changed my diet, so I have to cook a lot more for me, uh, spend time meditating. Uh, I tried to do that as soon as I wake up in the morning I go to sleep. I felt like that's really helped me, um, clear my head. Um, but yeah, just try to be productive with my free time. Um, for sure.

Quincy Amarikwa (39:05):

I love, I love that. Um, I can stand to do that a bit more. I did. I tried meditating. I did that for a little bit. Um, I liked that and enjoyed that. Like, I need to make time for that. That one's a good one. Um, you'd mentioned a lot of that is coming down to like time management. Did, um, did you utilize the time management, uh, worksheet and training that we had?

Quincy Amarikwa (39:29):

Yeah. So for those of you don't know, uh, once we Earl and I started talking to Quincy and he started to bring us into the MSL mindset, uh, he had, uh, started, uh, clock in what we're doing and how we're spending our time every day, what we're doing every 30 minutes of the day. Um, so, you know, I definitely got really into that. And just at first you could kind of see how you would spend your time and how it wasn't productive, and you really don't really notice it or realize when you're doing it, but when you have to write it down and type it, and you're spending box at the box saying watching TV, watching TV, watching TV, it's like, man, like maybe I shouldn't be spending as much time watching TV. And that was a great thing for me is, uh, um, to be honest, I'm still not currently doing that right now, but I definitely do have better, uh, knowledge of what I'm doing and how I'm spending my time. But, you know, for that first year I did it, uh, I did it consistently for a year. I think you're helping. It really did help me in a lot of ways, seeing how I spend my time more productive,

Quincy Amarikwa (40:44):

I'd love that we can. I think for the longest time I thought I thought the problem was, uh, I thought the root problem was a financial problem, like of like, okay, everyone spends their time doing things to kind of, to make money or to earn money so that they can take vacation and start a business, invest in their futures, pay for school, whatever. Right. And I was going like, okay, a lot of people don't have a financial literacy so that, you know, I focused on building that, that first financial literacy course and, and sharing what I had learned and mistakes I've made and the real estate deals and all that stuff. And it wasn't necessarily resulting in what I thought it was until I really focusing. And I went, you know what, it's actually, it's a time literacy, literacy, uh, issue, right? Like it's like people, people, one, they don't know how to budget their money.

Quincy Amarikwa (41:36):

That's one problem. But worse is, people don't know how to budget their time, you know? And to the point that you're making is, you know, when you're not writing down where you spend your time, you literally don't see your time. You don't see it. So you don't even, you don't realize you are bleeding time. Right. Um, and, uh, once, once we put together that time management worksheet, I mean, for me, that was like the light bulb for me, in terms of like how I can better utilize my time as well too, is showcasing how guys can learn, how to budget and manage their time, their time for themselves. Um, and with you saying that, you know, is that you stuck to it for a year, that's massive, right. It becomes a habit. And now you can start thinking in terms of your time allocation and you don't necessarily have to write it every day to break up your day into 30 minutes segments.

Quincy Amarikwa (42:36):

Right. For sure. Um, it's a, it's an act, it's a practice in meditation it's own way because you have to be focused on a task for a certain duration of time. And it's a task that you might not necessarily enjoy because it's showing you where you fall short and literally have to confront it every day. Like you're looking at your BS every day and you're just like, okay, can I keep looking at this and still do it and not like, and then make excuses as to why that opportunity was because of someone else, you know? Um, no, it's beautiful. Uh, cause I was thinking with, uh, Earl, right. Earl's I think Earl's more my temperament like, go, go, go today. Yes. Okay. Go, go, go crash bird. Do it again. Uh, uh, and seeing, seeing you guys approach the time management sheet and the, the, uh, the feedback I get from you guys in terms of like hating it.

Quincy Amarikwa (43:40):

Yeah.

Quincy Amarikwa (43:46):

Is, you know, this is, this is stupid, you know what I mean? Like what's the point I don't see. And I go, yeah. Okay.

Quincy Amarikwa (43:58):

Yeah.

Quincy Amarikwa (43:58):

Yeah, man. Uh, it's, it's, it's uh, it's positive feedback. It's good to hear. Right. Cause like the feedback now is like, all right. Yeah, yeah. Like that was helpful. You know what I mean? I didn't enjoy it. I look at it like preseason, I didn't enjoy it. I didn't enjoy throwing up. Cause I ran too hard and I didn't have fun doing the beep test, but I am happy that I'm healthy in the middle of the year and I'm fit and I'm ready to, uh, destroy the team that we're playing on the weekend. You know? So, uh, yeah bro,

Quincy Amarikwa (44:31):

I did.

Quincy Amarikwa (44:32):

I didn't know. I didn't know you, uh, you utilized it for over a year, man. That's dope. I'd have to ask the girl Earl tapped out after, I don't know Earl. How, how long until you tapped out on the time management sheet, man, let's see. Uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (44:50):

No more crying.

Quincy Amarikwa (44:51):

Okay. Uh, John just said, keep out at every one time to get on that homework grind. I'm in your head. Uh, see you all next time. Thank you, Quincy. And thank you, Chris. So yeah, I think a lot of people are really enjoying this episode, man, and have taken up an awful lot of gems from you. Um, and I appreciate the time man. Umar said appreciate the answers brother. Um, Wessex uh, gave you three goat emojis all in a row

Quincy Amarikwa (45:19):

And that's my guy, friends man from second grade. Oh wow. Shout out West,

Quincy Amarikwa (45:27):

The most diesel a school teacher.

Quincy Amarikwa (45:30):

Okay.

Quincy Amarikwa (45:36):

I love that role. He's got to start Instagram account bro. Just flex them on everybody.

Quincy Amarikwa (45:42):

Uh,

Quincy Amarikwa (45:42):

Let's see. Okay. Joe Jackson said, yo Quincy, that's the next challenge. Try to fill out the time management cheat every day for six months, I liked that we could do that. Um, uh, uh, last week, um, last week we had our first winner of the 10 pushup challenge. Um, what, what it was was I challenged our, our followers to say, okay, all you have to do in this offer still stands. All you have to do is 10 pushups every day without and not miss a day for six months, you do that. You get some free perfect soccer ball Merck. And uh, I think has been like two years sentence going on and we've only had one, one person she's made it so far. Uh it's it's it's easy physically. It's difficult mentally. Um, let's see. Earl had said, I remember not wanting to tell you, uh, why the time sheet was hard to embarrassing.

Quincy Amarikwa (46:42):

Yeah.

Quincy Amarikwa (46:42):

Uh, okay. Earl said I actually lasted a little over a year. Okay. That's decent. I just took a short hiatus early on. Cause I wasn't ready for all that. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I avoided you for two weeks. Uh, yeah. I love that. The part of the, the part of the process where everyone I work with goes on a hiatus. It just ignores me and sends me no messages. It just doesn't look me in the eye for however long. And I'm like, uh, okay. Uh, I guess either I'll never talk to them again or there'll be back around once they they've calmed down or

Quincy Amarikwa (47:23):

Okay.

Quincy Amarikwa (47:24):

I love that. Right. Okay. Uh, now I, I love time, man. We've got, let's say we've got about 10 more minutes here before. Uh, we'll. We'll wrap up the hour here. Uh let's uh, keep it more. I know we've gone deep on a lot of things. What what's uh, so some foams fun stories or, uh, something that stands out to you during our time in, um, during our time in 2019, like couples share a couple of stories, uh, that you thought were, were ridiculous. Stupid, funny, sad. Uh, w what do you got?

Quincy Amarikwa (48:01):

Definitely some funny moments. Um, one off the top of my head is, is your introduction to the team, but, uh, with the presentation and then Earl, the reason why Earl awarded you for first couple of months, and that's, that's always a funny story. You can tell this story.

Quincy Amarikwa (48:22):

No. Okay. All right. So why do you, you remember it? Like, Oh, okay. I've never, okay. I've never heard from your perspective, so, okay. I'll give a quick background story on that. Right. So for those who don't know, Earl essentially like blew me off for the first, like three months. So like Earl had said in the, in the comments there, uh, Chris Earl and myself were right next to each other as locker mates while I was at DC. Right. But for the first three months, Earl just ignored my existence. Thought I was the dumbest person who ever existed and just wrote me off right from the beginning. And he wrote me off because of a joke I made at the, uh, MLS, like introduction presentation, where they, they go over all the things you can, you and things you can, and can't say on the board and the guy who was giving the presentation was saying every word and doing everything, but avoided saying the N word. Right.

Quincy Amarikwa (49:20):

You know, and I can tell he's on the hot seat and he really wanted to move on from it. And I had raised my hand and he is, Oh, okay. Quincy called me and said, Hey, what's that word? I, all the other words I've written out, but what about that, that, that word there? He said, which one was it? The end? That one, what does the word, what is that? And he was, he was just sitting there for a little bit before I was, I said, Oh, I thought it was, hell, I still think it's hilarious, bro.

Quincy Amarikwa (49:48):

I thought it was hilarious. I was dying. Like the,

Quincy Amarikwa (49:51):

Okay, well that's okay. I love that. So like, what was your experience? Because Earl thought it was the dumbest joke out of ti like wrote me off for three months. Uh, what, what were your, what were your thoughts?

Quincy Amarikwa (50:05):

Yeah, that was my first time. Cause this was like your first day, right? So no one really knows who you are. I don't know. I didn't really know you. And literally that's my first thing I hear you say is like, Oh, what's that N word up there. And gas trace and how Shirky was up there, man. I was laughing in the back of the room when, uh, you know, he gets to see in the locker room. Some people find it funny. Some people didn't Earl was obviously one who did not find that plenty at all to the point where he didn't want to talk to Quincy for like three months off of that one joke. But I thought it was funny,

Quincy Amarikwa (50:46):

Bro. You gotta shoot your shot, bro. Like, like, well, hopefully that, okay. So there's a lesson to be learned there. Like, Hey, there's, there's not much that you can't recover from. There's a, there's a path back, you know what I mean? Like, Hey,

Quincy Amarikwa (51:04):

Takes time to get there. You'll get back there.

Quincy Amarikwa (51:09):

Yeah. He said, yo, I'm crying. Oh man. Uh, okay. Uh, Oh, Joe Jackson. Yeah. I remember that story. Uh, Oh yeah. And Earl said, I'm sure you guys cover this. We did not yet. So I'm glad that you brought it up. Uh, but he said, Chris, congratulations again on the new contract. Uh, uh, for those who don't know, uh, Chris just signed his new deal with DC United, uh, ink, the deal. What? Little less than a week or two weeks ago. Okay.

Quincy Amarikwa (51:40):

Yeah. About a week and a half ago last week.

Quincy Amarikwa (51:44):

Well, congratulations on that. I know we're uh, we're just to see what 2020 has to has in store as well as beyond, um,

Quincy Amarikwa (51:54):

Appreciate her shout out to her for, uh, signing with new England.

Quincy Amarikwa (51:59):

Yes. Right? This man's making moves, bro. Hey, so what's uh, if uh, new England meets DC bro, this year who who's, who's coming away with the w yeah.

Quincy Amarikwa (52:13):

You already know, you probably know Aero already knows to come on, man. Next, next question. Next question.

Quincy Amarikwa (52:32):

EMA cover for you, bro. Bro, bro email. Still. He still has to come talk to me yet, bro. You tell this man, bro. He's not yay. EMA. Where you at, bro? Where are you back? Oh man. I love that. Oh, okay. Uh, Dania. Any other stories? Any, any other ones that come to mind?

Quincy Amarikwa (52:57):

I'm not sure. What about you? You, you have any off the top of your,

Quincy Amarikwa (53:01):

Uh, let me, uh, let me think. Oh, uh, I'll let you think while I see Earl now Earl's show throwing his shots. I know he's wishing he could three way call in on this is 1996, weights, eight wins in any trophies. Um, man, I hope, I hope I ended up getting back into the Emma MSL. I've always been in the MSL bro, but getting back to the FLS road just so I can show up to you guys to cities and just talk mad

Quincy Amarikwa (53:43):

Marrow, man. We all, we always go back and forth on trash talk and especially like football, you know, he's a big, uh, chargers fan. I'm a big football team, Washington football team fan. So, you know, we always go back forth on that fantasy football. So we will always talk trash to each other.

Quincy Amarikwa (54:04):

Is it, it doesn't mean anything unless we're, unless there's putting something on the line bro. And Earl said he seen EMA today looking like a beast. Don't be scared to get outta here. Uh, uh, Chris, Chris always ends with you. Got it. Uh, yo okay. No, what we'll do we'll table it. I appreciate that, man. Uh, this has been a good life. I'm glad we got to wrap a bit, uh, share, share a bit of what's going on, make some amazing announcement, uh, announcements and I'm looking forward to, uh, you join into perfect soccer team here, moving forward. We'll figure out, you know, how that will look and, um, what you'll be involved with. I'm sure the fans will see you on a live here or something. Uh, you guys, if you've got any questions or ideas, make sure you send them in [email protected]. Um, we'll, uh, we'll be getting clips in the replay of this episode and published on next Tuesday.

Quincy Amarikwa (55:13):

So for those of you who miss out on the lives, you got to wait some time before you get to re download any of the knowledge. Um, uh, shout out to, uh, Chris again for joining in today. And for those of you who haven't yet, make sure you go to perfect soccer skills.com/subscription, get your perfect soccer subscription. You'll get access to all of our books, tools, training center, uh, training resources, uh, the time management sheet that, uh, Chris is talking about. The, um, the perfect soccer ball player blueprint, the ultimate college soccer ball recruiting blueprint, the goalkeeper, uh, blueprint. Oh man, I'm trying to think of all the stuff we've got the pro weekly now, uh, beginner, intermediate and advanced, um, at-home private, uh, personalized training programs, uh, every week, every Sunday. So all seven days of the week, that includes mentality training. Um, as well as we'll, we're setting up a weekly zoom training sessions and deep dive, uh, private MSL sessions, uh, just like this.

Quincy Amarikwa (56:12):

So, um, there's a lot that comes with that perfect soccer ball subscription. We're also including the monthly subscription comes with a free perfect soccer mini ball. A year subscription comes with the perfect soccer match ball. You hit a perfect soccer ball, uh, uh, resume. So, uh, your own website with, uh, edited services and a highlight tape and all that to promote yourselves, to coaches and, um, uh, teams to get scouted plus a breakdown of how to reach out to college coaches, um, professional coaches, agents, and, uh, get yourself promoted, promoted, properly marketed. So you can play with the team of your choice. The purpose soccer ball subscription comes with a whole bunch of stuff. I'm, I'm missing a bunch of things. Um, I get so wrapped up in, uh, getting to the, uh, the mindset, the strategies and all of that, that I, I always forget to promote where everybody can get access to everything. So I wanted to make sure I take a, took a moment to let everybody know about the perfect soccer subscription. Uh, thank, uh, Chris again for joining in, um, man, everyone's spamming that heart button. They're loving this, uh, the drop and I'm in the head emojis for you, Chris, uh, before, before you take off here, is there anything you, uh, you were wanting to, uh, share, promote, um, let the followers know about, uh, to where they, where can they follow you? Um, yeah,

Quincy Amarikwa (57:31):

Yeah, no, uh, I only have Instagram, so you can find me there. Chris underscore I'll Dewey a chain, uh, but like Quincy said, I'll be involved with, uh, purpose soccer going forward. So I'll be seeing a lot of you guys a lot more often. So thanks again, Quincy for having me on the day. Appreciate talking to you as always. And we'll talk soon. Thanks again, bro.

Quincy Amarikwa (57:58):

Yo, that is, uh, that's massive. Uh, love, always love wrapping with Chris. A shout out to everybody who stopped by and joined in and, and shared their thoughts. Um, Popa said the live today though, uh, cry face emoji, uh, soccer ball dad for life that had a good have a good night. Have a good night. Thanks. Thanks for stopping by Joe Jackson, uh, had said was a great life. Thank you both have a great week. Of course. Thanks for stopping by as always, uh, Umar, uh, dropped diamond, your head emojis, Pope bus at another great episode down, uh I'm in your head emojis, Joe Jackson would be Jesus' hands. And, uh, Ryan Rodriguez said I'm a fan here in Brazil. So as always we're international, this works in all markets all over the world. This is the, the global mentality update and you guys are along for the ride. I appreciate everybody for joining in tuning in big shout out again to Chris. Um, and as he said, he'll be, you'll be seeing him here more as time goes on. And as always everybody I'm in your head, see you next week.

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