Ricky Garcia

Official twitter Coach Ricky Garcia. My thoughts are of mine and mine only and NOT of my employers. Father/Husband/Coach/Mentor/Educator

[Ricky Garcia @Ricky_Garcia4]

Since my high school boys are always talking about their goals, How about this goal from my 6 yr old mini-me. #strictlybangers #goal #upper90 #siuuu #minironaldo

[Captn 🇵🇸 @CaptnGuardiola]

Scouting report from FC Barcelona's academy coaches about 14 y/o Xavi Hernandez (original + English translation by Grok)

[BrickCenter @BrickCenter_]

Enes Kanter GOT INTO IT with a WNBA player and was KICKED OUT the arena 😳

[Shannonnn sharpes Burner (PARODY Account) @shannonsharpeee]

Brooo this entire video 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[MindArch @mindarchx]

Booking Tony Robbins today costs $1 million for a single day. this is a 21-minute tape from inside his own house, filmed over 30 years ago, where he breaks down exactly how to get anyone to say yes. same $1 million material. completely free.

this is a rare, unfiltered tape from decades before this man started charging billionaires just to be in the room with him.

people give you two excuses when they say no, he says. not enough time. not enough money. neither is true. the real reason is they don't believe it's worth it yet, and that's not a money problem, that's a state problem.

so he teaches something he calls attack and confess. instead of arguing with the objection, you confess your own. "I had a chance to go to this thing six months ago and I didn't go until two months ago," he tells the room. "I can't even imagine the time I lost." the room goes quiet. nobody argues back.

he calls it getting someone on the yes train. every small yes you get compounds into the next one, until saying no to the final ask feels harder than saying yes. by the time he asks someone to sign, he says, they've already agreed to it five times over without realizing it.

21 minutes. that's all it takes to walk away knowing the exact two moves people pay $1 million a day to learn: how to read anyone's state, and how to move it. most people spend years in sales guessing at this. he wrote it down on a flip chart in his living room in under half an hour.

a seat in that room cost $125 back then. today it's a $1 million-a-day to sit in front of him.

The tape is free right now, and the answer is in this video.

[Marcus Chairez | US/SC @USSoccerColl]

I analyzed the selection patterns from this last USYNT U-15 cycle (2011s) and compared it to the last two cycles to better understand U.S. Soccer's strategy and patterns at this age. It was an enlightening process.

Here is what I found ⤵️

https://t.co/MBGdI00XLu

[Total Football @TotalFootball]

Distance of all goals scored in World Cup 2026

[Andrew Carleton @andrewcarleton7]

MLS has developed more young foreign players than American players. That’s where the problem starts.

Our youth teams are almost as good as any others & as soon as they turn pro they sit on MLS second teams or MLS first teams bench for years.

Those same MLS clubs will spend millions of $$$ on young South Americans that have played 50+ first division professional games by the time they are 20 instead of playing young Americans.

[USMNTProspects @ProspectsUsmnt]

I wanted to once again reiterate one of the greatest sins I see in youth soccer: some smaller development clubs blackmail and hold their players hostage to make sure they don’t move onto bigger and better things.

Why? Because they know that if they allow them to leave to pro academies that their teams will get worse and it’ll alter wins and losses.

I totally am sympathetic to that it makes their environment worse to let players go, and at the end of the day people will often look out for themselves and the product they represent.

However, I think this is one of those businesses where that misses the larger point of what you’re doing. You are in the youth soccer business to help the next generation and to teach.

There is no real true pathway you can sell a player at a non pro academy that involves them reaching their goals and dreams in the sport.

I promise you too that 99% of them aren’t dreaming of Stanford or Duke and then a 10 year MLS career. They want to play in the Champions League and the World Cup.

It’s not to say that’s impossible at a non pro academy and then college and then going pro after college, but it’s not a repeatable pathway in the slightest. You are lying to yourself to think that gives them a better chance to reach their goals.

Maybe it’s the more prudent life plan. I can see why the parents will like it better, but all players who have legit pro potential want to bet on themselves and you are selling them a plan that doesn’t bet on themselves.

So no, it’s not better for their soccer career, unless you’re telling them that they aren’t that good and they need to more realistic as opposed to following their dreams.

I don’t know how common this is in other countries. I assume not very so, but this is something I hear every year, whether it’s a Crossfire Premier or Dallas Texans or DKSC or Sockers (plenty of others too) that they are blackmailing a legitimately good pro prospect to stay with them and bypass their dreams (a realistic dream) for purely cynical reasons that amount to the non-pro club doesn’t want to lose more games.

[U.S. Soccer @ussoccer]

📍 Arthur M. Blank U.S. Soccer National Training Center

🎥 Wendell Weithers

[Ricky Garcia @Ricky_Garcia4]

@BenTennyson_zx @Warlens55 how do you down load it

[Netflix @netflix]

RONALDINHO: THE ONE AND ONLY, a new documentary series, premieres April 16.

Follow the life and career of Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho, tracing his journey from young prodigy to global sports icon.

[Footy Xtra HQ @footyxtraHQ]

Ronaldinho being Ronaldinho. 🌟

[SAMENGO @samengo_ofc]

Muito louco perceber que o tempo tira a velocidade, força e até resistência… mas nunca a técnica

[Alpha. @Alph__Utd]

This is how Ronaldinho played after partying with 5 women until 8 in the morning

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“When you allow your children to grow up it’s a direct, direct reflection of your parenting. If you hover over them all the time and they can’t work through problems, they’re going to have some issues. You’ve got to let them work through problems because they’re working through the things you’ve instilled in them,” Dawn Staley

Let them learn.

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

True character is revealed in culture when effort, trust and enthusiasm define success.

[Paul Spacey ⚽️ @PaulSpacey]

Lamine Yamal playing as a kid.

The foundation for everything you see now was built a long time ago.

[Ricky Garcia @Ricky_Garcia4]

Let’s go Aiden!!

[U.S. Soccer YNT @USYNT]

U.S. Soccer will hold its second regional mini-camp of 2026 as part of the U-14 Boys’ Talent Identification Program. Eighty players from the South region, all born in 2012, will gather from March 12-16 at McCurry Park in Fayetteville, GA 🗞️
https://t.co/4zrPatrxTG

[U.S. Soccer YNT @USYNT]

U.S. Soccer will hold its second regional mini-camp of 2026 as part of the U-14 Boys’ Talent Identification Program. Eighty players from the South region, all born in 2012, will gather from March 12-16 at McCurry Park in Fayetteville, GA 🗞️
https://t.co/4zrPatrxTG