In today’s podcast, I interview the technical soccer goddess, Yael Averbuch. 

I first knew of Yael from afar, as I watched her YouTube videos that she posted of her dribbling and juggling drills. And I was like ‘damnnnn this girl is a hard ass worker and she’s got silky smooth touches that make me feel things.’ 

We recently got to know each other through a mutual friend and we bonded over the fact that we are both, what I like to call, “semi psycho obsessive human beings.” Or fully psycho, depending on who you’re talking to. People who are obsessive about their dreams are my kind of people. 

If you’re one of those people, I know this episode will resonate. Come join the club. 

Yael won two NCAA college cups with the North Carolina Tarheels. She has won three championships during her pro career with Sky Blue FC, Western New York flash, and FC Kansas City. She’s also played overseas in Russia, Sweden, and Cyprus. 

Yael has played for US at at every level of the youth national teams and represented the full team from 2007 to 2013.

In 2018, Yael was forced to step away from playing due to ulcerative colitis. Despite not currently being on the pitch, she is still heavily involved in the game. She is the executive director of the NWSL Players Association.  She is also the founder of Techne Futbol, a soccer training app that provides personal training for soccer players. I highly recommend checking the app out…like I said her touches make me feel things.

In our conversation, Yael talks about: 

• her addiction to being productive 
• how positive things done in excess, can go to far
• why she enjoys not being good at things 
• her process of mastery 
• the one thing she would do differently, if she could go back and redo her national team career again 
• the intimate details of her battle with ulcerative colitis and what this illness has taught her about herself

And more. 

Resources:

Yael's instagram

Techen Futbol's instagram 

ArrowLiving.com