NYCFC Year Three: Minnesota Soccer Match Interview

This is year three for you at this point with the New York City Football Club

How are you feeling at this point? How do you feel differently than, say, two years ago

Yeah, I've been doing pretty good, pretty good, to be honest. Like you said, year three, feeling more mature, more grown up

growing up in the best city in the world. It gives me confidence, you know

Like the songs say, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. So, yeah, really glad to be my year three

And do you feel like you made it here yet? Or are you still working on that? Well, I think it's always room for improvement, to be honest

But it's going on the right path. Fair enough, fair enough. All right, so basically with Minnesota coming in this weekend

all I will say has gotten four goals in the last two. You know, you look at it from the challenge of trying to stop someone

who's obviously on a hot streak. How are you feeling about Minnesota this weekend? Well, like I say, I don't want to talk too much about them

We need to focus on ourselves, on improving our game. we all know what happened this weekend in atlanta um leading 3-1 then conceding three and losing the

game away for three um so yeah we have a lot of room to improve uh and yeah like you saw on our

training we are we are doing doing these reels to focus on ourselves we don't want to focus on

others too much so i'm pretty sure we will go into the sunday's game uh prepared when you come

out of a match like that obviously um stunned is the word i would probably use in this case

How does that change your approach come Monday? Or does it? Well, we all know like when you lose the game, especially when it slips like this, you know

going to the tough place in Atlanta and drop points like this it not good It not good This is as simple as that So yeah like first two days are like you have to go through the game see mistakes see what you can do better um and yeah but after all you have to forget it you

have to move forward because season is still young it's game seven now um but it's good that we've

been through through that now so i don't think worst game can be you know what i mean be a gold

fish exactly exactly so yeah it's obviously it's not nice but it gives all of us the boost that we

need to do better we have to do better and we can do better and how much does this help the next two

matches are at home we all know what this means especially in front of our crowd um so i'm really

glad to be back at home and yeah we will we will give it our all so last question i think in this

case i'll let you go at that point um obviously with pascal jansen and everything like that

How do you feel with his approach versus, say, previously? Like I said, you're in year three right now with a new coach

How has that changed you as a player? For me, I would say enormous

Enormous. I really enjoy under his style of play, under his just basic coaching, you know

and how he is as a human being because not everything is in a coaching style

You have to also manage players from the human being side. So, yeah, like I said, I don't have any bad word

I'm really pleased that I can work under him and I think all as a team we are all more confident and

just going into the game strong and having him on the side it's just like a good preparation