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Introduction and Setting the Scene
00:00:00
Speaker
Well sir, we got a scorcher today. Gonna be a real scorcher today. Quite the scorcher today. Well it's gonna be scorcher.
Meet Mike Mata and the Upcoming Season
00:00:22
Speaker
Welcome back to the Sounder at Heart Studio in the ID. We are very excited to welcome a very special guest to the show here this evening. We have got Mike Mata. He's the head coach of West Seattle Junction FC, one of the USL League Two teams here in Seattle. Mike, we're excited to catch up with you about your season starting on Sunday and everything else regarding the West Seattle Junction. How are you doing here tonight?
00:00:46
Speaker
Yeah, thank you so much for inid invitation, guys. I'm super excited to be here. um Yeah, looking forward for our season. Super excited. I just come from practice, so we're ready.
00:00:57
Speaker
That's exciting. Love to hear it. OK, so Mike, to start it off, ah You know, Noah and I, we know about West Seattle Junction and USL League 2, but for people who don't know, can you just tell our audience about West Seattle Junction, the type of team you guys are, the type of players that join your team, and ah just kind of what people can expect from a USL League 2 team?
Team Dynamics and Community Engagement
00:01:18
Speaker
Yeah, so West Seattle Junction is a semi-professional team, um but it's handled as a professional team. So um we have very, like you said, it's a lot of type of players. We have players from high school, but we have players that are in college, and we have players that are just finished college. So it is a nice mix of talent, local talent. I'm pretty happy that this this season we recruited very local.
00:01:49
Speaker
So it it is a space for everybody to develop, to grow. um And it's a team for the community, for the people. Like I am a big soccer lover. So for me, it's like I want to give the community and the people from West Seattle a good show. Like they they come and they're going watch a good team um Yeah, it's it's it's where the dreams come true. It's a place where the high schoolers maybe get you know promoted to a good college and the college players hopefully get a pro um contract. So that's West Seattle Junction.
00:02:25
Speaker
I'm interested, that like the style of play in USL League 2. Is it fast, exciting? What's the kind of style, more technical, more slow? Give us an insight
USL League 2 Insights and New Strategies
00:02:37
Speaker
there.
00:02:37
Speaker
So from what I studied last couple years about the USL2, it's really fast paced, it's very direct. But at the same time, it's very physical. it's I will say that it's really similar to college.
00:02:54
Speaker
and and ah and And you will see less technical and tactical things. science you know it's it's it's It's like a national thing where everybody's coming from their own environments. And then here, you need to find that style. And sometimes you don't have much time for that. So I think you know no nobody want to lose. And and since say the season song is too short, nobody risks that much.
00:03:16
Speaker
But hopefully, we we we're going to come up with with a different proposal this year. Read up on your background a little bit. It said that you were you were coaching Bellevue Athletic FC before this, and you kind of turned to that team from a team that was struggling to be competitive into a national title contender. How did you do that, and what was sort of the the journey there like? ah like what What can you tell us just about Bellevue Athletic FC and that whole experience for you?
00:03:44
Speaker
So it is the same. It's the professional approach. Like, i if I want to do something in my life, I want to do it good. and and And I think the key is doing it with love. So I love what I do. I love coaching. ah and And I think the players, when they start feeling that confidence and and noticing that you really care about them and care about the project and take it serious and you invest time, they buy to the idea. So that's what happened with Bellevue. We have a huge ah amount of players with so much talent.
00:04:14
Speaker
And then the the staff who was with me is also really, really talented. And then i dream big. I'm a really big dreamer. and And I make them believe in my crazy ideas. you know i I was talking with somebody about this. Actually, in the second practice, I came as an assistant. And then I didn't didn't have much info about the team, if if they were very competitive or not, what position the table they they finished last season. And I don't know, finished training, I was hyped up. and And when I was like, you know what, then and remember that this season we're going to win it.
00:04:48
Speaker
And then at the beginning, everybody was like looking at me and then, yeah, we're going to win it. And then, I don't know, they they felt the energy and they got crazy that night and and and they start believing in that. So it was a really nice journey, which I will be always grateful to to let Bellevue and local soccer from here, as you say, in the high um you know in highest positions at national level.
00:05:12
Speaker
That's super interesting. Considering you are this belief guy you have, you like these crazy ideas. What's this year's
Ambitions and Challenges of Coaching
00:05:21
Speaker
crazy idea? Where are you feeling that you believe this team can go?
00:05:25
Speaker
Win the national championship. Win the USL too. I... I feel that we are so lucky on the on the Seattle, the greatest Seattle area of the talent that we have here.
00:05:37
Speaker
and And that's why I'm telling you, like I didn't have to wear, went very far to recruit. We recruit local and i'm I'm a strong believer that we have the talent here to to make a national championship team. What do you have to do to get there?
00:05:51
Speaker
Well, a lot of work, uh, and, and then make up a compact team, a team that is passionate about it. I think that belief in that and a team that is willing to work hard to get there.
00:06:04
Speaker
What are the challenges of coaching a team that's more developmental? You know, with USL League two, there's so much roster turnover. You don't get that continuity that you might have in ah in another league. How do you kind of tackle that as a coach and sort of get these guys all getting going for one mission when it's, you know, you're you're together for one season and then a lot's going to change. How do you sort of ah take that compared to other coaching jobs that you might have had?
00:06:30
Speaker
Yeah, it definitely is challenging. ah But I think in communication a lot, like communicate with them, knowing where they are, what they want, what they like what they can expect, what they're expecting from us to us. I refer to us also like as the coaching staff at the club.
00:06:46
Speaker
So talking a lot on and trying to bring everybody together to bite in idea. I ask my players to like, they they don't have to agree with me. But at at the end, it's an open collaboration too, that if if we we find objective, we we collaborate, maybe you don't agree with me, but then we both are going to push to the same side.
00:07:08
Speaker
that's That's the key. I think that's an interesting take on it You kind of shared the idea that this is more like a national team, right? You were getting players from colleges, you're getting players from all around and putting them into one group. How do you get players to gel quickly? Like to actually feel like they have each other's backs and get them to believe that quickly? Because I think that's a very unique talent as a coach. I mean, we talk about Brian Schmetzer's ability to do that. What's what's that secret sauce?
00:07:40
Speaker
I think it's being honest with them, it's being very direct um and talking from the heart. Like if they feel that you care and and showing like that is going to be fair, they will die for the team.
00:07:53
Speaker
and And that was also part of the recruitment. When when we we started doing the recruitment, it is a long process. And I was making sure first we have good human beings. So we we we kind of analyze each personality, where they are, their goals. And we we try to build that team um to make that, to make a team like when when they came over, they they're going be happy just to be here. And then they're going compete and be you know healthy competition to to push each other to be better. And yeah, like it's it's definitely challenging because everybody comes from a different environment. it'ss It's different style of place. But I do explain to them our game model, our idea, and we have open conversations. We have we do meetings.
00:08:39
Speaker
So it's it's a lot of, as I said before, the communication aspect. I'm interested too about that recruiting side of it. That's very unique to like American soccer, but even more unique to the USL League too. And you're going out and you're like almost like a college football head coach. Like, how's going there, son? like Come to my college. like How does that recruiting
Recruitment and Community Involvement
00:09:02
Speaker
actually go? So yeah, i I'm very grateful for Instagram first. i Okay, yeah. they they son You heard it. may Get your Instagram if you want to play USL League too. Definitely, ah definitely at least a player profile. i I do have my coach profile and, you know, it's getting there first and, you know, reaching out. I i was looking, you know, the stats of each of them and trying to learn a little bit of the background. So I i really do a big effort of connecting with the the person first. and
00:09:36
Speaker
And I think the key is is when I start talking about my philosophy and what they can expect, ah they they they buy into idea. They were like, OK, this is going to fun environment to be in my summer.
00:09:48
Speaker
I have one more. Sorry. I'm driving in here. But ah please what what excites you about the lower tiers of American soccer? Like, I think there is something so unique in America with these leagues, especially being summer leagues and being, i mean, there's not really anything like it anywhere else in the world. Like, what really gets you excited about it? And I think maybe what are things you're going to take from this, even if you don't end up coaching here forever? Like, what are the things that you're going to take from the USL?
00:10:18
Speaker
Well, um it's the proximity with the people. It's the connection, fans, community, and players, right? Like, I'm the head coach, and I just came from from the stadium. We were setting up all the stuff yeah for the game day. And our players were putting together stuff, too. So it's like that community thing and that proximity with the people, i I love that after the game, you were watching the game, and you can come to get an autograph, to get a picture, to chat a little bit about the game. So it's is that. It's that the connection between players, fans. It's is all one.
00:10:52
Speaker
And it's really beautiful. I really like it. I think you were saying something to me beforehand as well, that like in a world where FIFA World Cup tickets are $3,000 a piece and, you know, the modern game is so divorced from that personality and that like community feeling, the Junction are...
00:11:11
Speaker
free tickets for for forever yeah anyone. Yeah, this season, if you're interested, check our socials. I know that West Seattle Food Bank, and I'm probably forgetting something else where to get it, but reach out to Junction Socials, and you will get free tickets.
00:11:27
Speaker
um that's That's the whole idea. Like, the city is going be super hyped for the World Cup. And many families can't afford this. And we are giving an opportunity to families who want to watch good soccer, to watch community, to be able to to participate.
00:11:43
Speaker
That's, I think, my favorite thing about League Two. And then you know you see it with Ballard as well, the accessibility of it. So I i think that's awesome that you guys are doing the ah the free tickets. First game coming up on Sunday, Tacoma Stars.
00:11:55
Speaker
How are you feeling? What do you think of the ah squad? And what's kind of just the vibes around the team going into the first game of the season? That's always probably some of the most butterflies you'll get. Yeah, vibes are great. i We started two weeks ago and from the very beginning of the practice, everybody started, you know, very light mood. like It was really good mood. And the vibes are great. Of course, you know, nervousness about the first.
00:12:21
Speaker
game, but we're we're very excited. we're We're happy. We are excited to show hopefully all this work that we put together. We have the um the reward in the in and Sunday game. So it's it's it's that excitement. I'm anxious, but it excited overall.
00:12:37
Speaker
How many games? It's a lot of games in a row, correct? Yes. It's like two per week or three per week, potentially? it depends on each team's schedule. For us, I didn't love our schedule, but it is what it is. You need to roll with it. So we'll have our first game now in the 10th. And then to give you an example, we got a game in the 20th, the and the 25th. Yeah.
00:13:02
Speaker
And that's not the best for the players, but it is what it is and you need to manage that. Yeah. Yeah. How do you manage that? Is that just purely like having ah a super deep roster just numerically so you can rotate a lot or how do you how do you manage a stretch like that?
00:13:20
Speaker
it's It's challenging. I think that's one of the keys is because you you need the chemistry, right? You can have two different squats. You
Game Schedule and Player Development
00:13:29
Speaker
can have three different squats. You need one squat where everybody working together.
00:13:33
Speaker
um And then it's going to be ah rotations for sure. But how to make those is what we're working on. Like we we need to see, when we have a huge staff, um medical staff. And so they're going to be working, we're going working close together on checking the players' health. Because at at at the beginning, all all this is for them, right? So we need to keep the health healthy.
00:13:58
Speaker
And it's going to challenging though those people rotations and the chemistry that they have with each other. So that's that's that's very difficult. to It probably helps that their high school and college aged athletes as well a little bit. But that sounds yeah pretty, pretty intense, too. But I think maybe in a way that probably helps with let's say you drop a game, you immediately can just go into the next game and you don't really have to carry that as much.
00:14:27
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, you you do have, as you say, close close games to to do that. But ah in this league, if you're taking in that serious, dropping points is definitely not an option. yeah it's It's very difficult you you tie a game or you lose a game. It's getting complicated. So hopefully that's not going happen. But I do think that in in that x scenario where you didn't have your best game, you have a chance right away after.
00:14:53
Speaker
i I know that Ballard is technically a little rival, ah but a bit of a rival. They made it all the way to the national championship. Have you modeled anything after what they do well, or are you planning on taking some of that so you can beat them this year?
00:15:09
Speaker
Well, um I do have a lot respect not only for them, for all the teams in the league and everybody that have their forms. So I think they did a great job recruiting. And this year they did the same.
00:15:23
Speaker
But, you know, this soccer is you have been getting way closer to to like more competitive. you You close the distance between a big club and a small club or professional and semi-professional. You can see that in the U.S. Open Cup, too.
00:15:39
Speaker
um So i I think we have our own way and hopefully this way is gonna help the team to get far. And they have a new coach as well. They do. It is kind of a new a new era for them as well. so that's That's always a spicy a little spicy matchup because we've... It's good derby. It's a good derby. It's a great derby. It's cool to have... That's another thing. Sorry, I'm just gonna keep asking a million yeah questions because this is where we at. Please.
00:16:08
Speaker
Seattle is so unique in that we literally have like five or six teams within driving distance. It's truly like neighborhood clubs. Yeah. There's not really anything like that anywhere in the US. Like this is a very unique situation. It's soccer city. Yes. That's what happened too.
00:16:27
Speaker
And I'm talking about them. I think going to play them and within three days we play them again. So back to back, home and away. It's going to really fun. That's going to be exciting. We may have to do that. That would be a fun video to go back to both them. Yeah, we might and we might have to. we might have to. ah What are the biggest things that you want a player to take away when they join West Seattle Junction? Like if you could draw up the perfect things for them to take away from when they get there to to when they leave, how would you describe what you want them to take away?
00:16:58
Speaker
Yeah, so um at this level, I'm not here to teach anybody how to play soccer. If they made the team, they know how to play soccer. So um the takeaway will be the professionalism and and i'm being coachable. overall. Like I i want to to make that mark on players of being, you know, coachable, um more analytic to the game as well, having another perspective, another vision of the game, and and hopefully a deeper tactical understanding.
00:17:32
Speaker
and of course, a feeling more prepared after this, right? Like I would love to provide my feedback and all the stuff that we have to make them better.
00:17:43
Speaker
So anything that they can, they can, that can make it better, I think will be positive for them to take out.
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00:20:51
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If there's a high schooler out there who's like, oh man, like I wanna play, I'm like getting into this, maybe he's not in an academy or maybe he's playing on a club team, what advice do you have to someone in that position who would wanna play for a team like the Junction or literally the Junction? Yeah, so work really hard. um If you're out there and you want to get to this level, all these guys were in high school before.
00:21:17
Speaker
So what i add my advice would be work super hard every day. um First dream that you can make it. um And then, yes, follow that.
00:21:28
Speaker
If you dream big and then you follow that with hard work, it's possible. So do an effort. When you look at the squad that you guys have assembled this year, is there maybe a player or two that you're super excited to watch and see what they can do this year? Or is there maybe someone that if fans come out to a game, you know keep an eye on on that guy. He's fun to watch. Well, we have it wouldn't be fair to to mention one or two, but we have a really competitive squad. um, signs like, yeah, last year they they did recruit Alex Mejia. So Mejia is a big local name. Um, he played in every single level in the youth level and make it to professional in Honduras, play the Coca-Cafe champions league.
00:22:09
Speaker
And now he's back home and, um, keep balling. So Alex Mejia definitely a player to watch. And, uh, this year joining Junction for first time London Fenster.
00:22:20
Speaker
Um, I think after after coaching Peter Kingston. This is the second player with most talent I've ever seen. He's 19 year old, um just transferred to Western.
00:22:34
Speaker
um he's He's a player to watch. Really, really talented.
Spotlight on Peter Kingston
00:22:39
Speaker
We're big Pete fans. We're big on this we're big King Pete fans. We were out at those Ballard FC games when Pete was playing for them, and we also were at a Defiance game or two where Pete was playing for them. so it is And fans of the vlogs. We love the vlogs. yeah Are you in any of the vlogs?
00:22:54
Speaker
i I did. No, I'm not in it, but i did watch all of them. I think he mentioned it briefly, his passport from Bellevue Athletic to Defiance. but I'm a big fan too, like, he's unbelievable talent.
00:23:08
Speaker
and It is really hard to get another one. I didn't realize like how good he is until he we started to see him play for the first team, and that's kinda when you get the first notion of like,
00:23:20
Speaker
Okay, well we saw him excel at the lower level, but he's literally just doing the exact same thing. Now in ah in this case, it was a CONCACAF Champions Cup match that we were at in Spokane where he had made, I think he had debuted for the first team, but that was his first extended action and he comes out gets two assists. So it's like it's crazy to see that moment where you're like, wow, I actually saw him when he was on Ballard FC, Tacoma Defiance, and now he just did that in a CONCACAF Champions Cup game. It's crazy. Well, this is ah a funny story.
00:23:48
Speaker
um Peter and I, we have a really good relationship. We both respect each other. But we do have one disagreement. He thinks that he's a six. He thinks that he's a midfielder.
00:24:00
Speaker
And I think he's a wing. um I kind of agree with you. yeah In one game, so we have, we make it to the national run of 16. um He, you know, we travel in the airplane all this time. He's like, I need to play the seats. Trust me, you got to play the seats. And I was really stubborn to put him in the wing.
00:24:21
Speaker
To get there, he did play in the win the two previous games and ball out. Like he won the game for us in the win, dribbling one on one, getting one penalty, then getting one assist in the final. So I was very stubborn.
00:24:35
Speaker
After that, I accept that if we make him play in the seats in that in the game, we probably advance. I make that mistake. I keep telling me all this time. And now in Sanders, he playing the win in and just ball out. yeah yeah And it is something that even when I was in training with him, I remember talking to my Bellevue staff, Anastasio, who I say hi, I know he's a big fan of the podcast. shout out um he I was telling him, like, Stas, if somebody gives an opportunity to Peter to play the wing in the MLS, he's going to really good at this.
00:25:10
Speaker
I think he's a MLS winger. Like he have the level for that. um See what happened. So you you called that. And honestly, I mean, it's actually such a good debate right now because we've kind of been debating if he's a six or a winger. And i guess I kind of perceived him as a six. Like that's what I thought he just was. But then he went out there and CCC on the wing. And I was like, wow, that actually looks like really good.
00:25:36
Speaker
And listen, I have been watching soccer for 20 something years now, maybe 24 years now. And we are losing and the those wingers, the the one on one wingers, the guys who take players out and and down and and and go diagonal and and can get you anything out of it. They can get make you a good cross with left foot, right foot. They can get a shot. They can get through ball.
00:26:02
Speaker
and and And I'm not talking about MLS. I'm talking worthwhile. At the highest level. It's something that you don't see that much. And Peter Kingston has that. And he's really good at that. So for me, it's like, I will personally put him in the wing.
00:26:16
Speaker
So Peter, if you're watching this, I told you, win. Hey, first thing, literal first thing he did in that CCC game in Spokane was absolutely moss, not one, but two defenders that he split two defenders who were one of the best defensive teams and one of the best defensive teams in MLS. Absolutely mosses two defenders to get through and get in a ah ah primary assist. So That was that he's I would say that whole thing has been kind of one of our every year these kind of new characters emerge that you don't expect on the team like, you know, one year was the year of Paul Rothrock. But this year it feels like it's kind of been the year of ah of Pete. But it it has that kind of cool element of the hyper local aspect, you know, and the fact that he's really like he truly has played at every single level, every single every level, every single level. And it's such an inspiration for yeah all the local kids. Like you're going now with 10 years old to Saunders. You're going to the stadium, you are a fan. And this was Peter Kingston, like going there, being a Saunders fan and working so hard to get there. and And the fact that he did it is an inspiration for all of us. Not only soccer, I think for, you know, the community itself, like for for everyone.
00:27:31
Speaker
Yeah, no, I think that's what makes this level as well fun is that you get to start to follow the careers of all of these players who then you get to say, i was there when. yeah i was there when.
00:27:45
Speaker
Also, it's truly like the purest form of enjoying soccer, like going out on a sunny day, it's Usually the games are earlier, right? like yeah You have this opportunity to just like enjoy it, way more chill.
00:28:01
Speaker
You can take your family. Drink a beer if you want. By the way, we're going have a beer garden in West Seattle. that's a big update. I know that that was a challenge in the past. It was a huge challenge, and I i want to thank the back office.
00:28:14
Speaker
for working so hard with this Seattle City and and all the things that the people don't see but Yeah, we are really excited for that. That's a big new for the club and we're happy for it. Beer Garden concessions catch me there.
Closing Remarks and Community Invitation
00:28:29
Speaker
Yeah Well, I guess yeah as we sort of wrap up here Could you tell us? Where this game on Sunday is that and kind of where people can follow the team and find the team and go to the games throughout the season?
00:28:42
Speaker
Yeah, um so our social media is West Seattle Junction. and The game is at Nino Cantu Stadium, 5 p.m. So come for a party. Soccer is is a party. It's the way to connect from different cultures and community. And that's what you can expect in West Seattle Junction.
00:29:01
Speaker
Sweet. We'll put the link as well in the description so you guys can check out all the all the stuff. And we really appreciate you coming on. Appreciate you guys. Thank you so much. Mike Mata, head coach, West Seattle Junction. Thank you so much for joining the show. We'll have to get you on again soon. and But ah best of luck with everything this season. I know we're going to try and make it out to at least a couple games.
00:29:22
Speaker
and So we'll we'll see you out. Maybe we'll have to get you biked up. Great. Biked up video. i don't know. could be cool. Now we're cooking. Now we're cooking. Appreciate it. Thank you, guys. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me.
00:29:34
Speaker
Thank you.