A Day in the Life of a Pro Footballer | England vs USA

foreign [Music] okay good morning guys so this is breakfast my typical breakfast that I usually have I have three eggs over easy with some spinach mushrooms a little bit of guacamole I have an orange and a banana so I'm going to eat this to start off my day and uh then get started with my day now the plan for this Vlog as I'm sure that you guys can already tell by the title but it's comparing my day as a professional here in the second tier of the U.S soccer pyramid playing the USL Championship compared to Devin Tannen who is a player for Fulham u21s I'll let Devin introduce himself a little bit more fully and give you a little bit more background about him as a player and how he got over to England in his own Vlog but yeah let's just get into the video [Music] [Applause] [Music] what's going on guys good morning um it is currently 7 40 in the morning I just woke up I'm gonna get myself ready shower look presentable and then I'll take you on a day in the life 121. football player in England so let's get it now I'm gonna make my bed which I don't usually do but for the sake of this day in the life I'm gonna act like I'm tidy put some tunes on all right I've showered gotten ready and now it's just my commute to the facility um some players have cars but for me it doesn't make sense um the train is like a 10 minute walk and then it's just two stops to the facility so I'm gonna take the train now and yeah I'll see you there I think it's also worth mentioning I live in all his family so what that means is there's a lady that um lives here it's her house and she kind of takes care of us and Fulham um pays her money um to look after us she cooks us like dinner every day so it's quite sweet um I live with another teammate here he's uh he's an American keeper um that also moved from the US so it's a little little American household in England so it's pretty good might I say look how clean my room is that is unheard of [Music] [Music] all right I'm on a cool little walk now it is not usually like this in England I don't know what's going on but Susie Gray foggy today's lovely great day [Music] all right in the coffee art today I am seeing a mermaid and a manatee one thing that I've realized about uh becoming a father and also working from home is that it's really hard to work so Mimi and I both do that Mimi as an interior designer she works from home I am a professional footballer but I also do YouTube and I edit my own videos and I do my own all my own you know work so we both are like balancing this this this juggling Act of taking care of Scarlett but also getting our work done and me editing YouTube videos and Mimi designing houses and zooming with clients and all that stuff it's uh it's actually been working but it's uh it's tough but in the morning before Scarlett and Mimi wake up is like my grind time so I try to get as much work as I possibly can before I head off to training and that has been my my schedule the Beast has awoken so that means my work is done for the morning I made it 20 minutes that's pretty good I was working at home with a baby um I feel like I'm juggling I said the same exact thing this morning really yeah it was like a Juggle like a balancing act yeah and it's all because of you huh huh okay I got a little unboxing for you guys brought to you by the sponsor of today's video FB designs already a nice little message for the Sheldon family thank you for inspiring people I hope you like this awesome let's see what we got oh cool look at that or something here is the main product for today so this is a pair of shin guards from FB designs as you can see got my uh photo of myself on there as well as my family so it's kind of to remind you when you put these in what you're playing for which I think is really cool um really like the family part I get I get now why it was addressed to the family yeah so two sets of shin guards from Epi designs which is perfect um I mean this is the exact size that I wear in the 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about 20 minutes so it's not that bad at all we have to get into the facilities about an hour and 10 minutes before training starts that's our arrival time if you're late after that you get fined so I get there like an hour and a half early just in case there's traffic or anything today we have a little Scout on the next team that we're playing we're playing Phoenix Rising this weekend so we're gonna have like probably 15 20 minutes scouting their attacking tenancies their defending tenancies and then we go on and have our typical hour and a half training session and I'll probably stay after a little bit get a little bit extra Crossing work finishing work whatever [Music] thank you [Music] foreign so we get to the facility and um now it's time for breakfast yep thank you all right this is the final breakfast Colin cow introduce yourself to the camera all right all right hey how you doing [Music] cypriot Legend all right now I actually introduce yourself Striker 19 years of age from avocados and toasts a little Hammond look but the days could stop for the day doing a little bit of pull before analysis go on mate good shot yeah yeah I like that thank you [Music] say hi to the camera dog [Music] thank you see which ones are we going with today um if you don't know I'm in love with retro boots the classics they'll make them like this anymore especially Vapors so I'm gonna go with these for training Matt give me a partnership with halt's boots man I'm trying to get these I'm trying not to hurt the pocket man [Music] put on your American accent it's conscious at a soccer the first tip that's over there and now what time is it it's my favorite time of the day lunchtime here we go this is what we got for lunch he said lunch finished [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] it is 12 50 in the afternoon we just finished up training and video and all that good stuff um stayed after for like 15 minutes did some extra Crossing and finishing work it's a good session it's pretty short and now I'm going to go to the gym and get in a full body lift and hopefully make it back home for the Man City Real Madrid Champions League game but it might be a little tight we'll see I gotta hurry [Music] thank you all right just finished the workout like really nice and easy quick it was like 30 minutes just like two or three sets of everything just to keep everything sharp you know maintain it in season I'm not making a crazy push but uh it was good now it's time to get home for the Champions League game [Music] watch that touch oh my God it's done well [Applause] look at that oh all right so now we got Jim okay we just had lunch so I'm gonna do my 500 pull-ups every single day just like Cristiano but he can't even get up [Music] well it's uh the thing where it's like awkward it's not awkward because I love the camera I'm about this life [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Applause] here's the Dome I'm gonna get a bit of extras in um just because I wasn't able to get any like footage of our team training um and so yeah a little bit of extras go back to the gym do a little bit of recovery and then I'm on my way home thank you finish [Music] that would have been on camera [Music] no pressure go on finish go on real time do it again same exact one again don't fold finish to be fair come on keep rolling come on Cal pressure's on fair enough goal you need to take a banger all right each player has 30 seconds to show their freestyling this kid did it when he was younger so far enough two yeah the little Hill flicks all right so we've made a wager where if he scores all three against him then wait what's the wager again oh if he misses all three he has to take him home but he's a striker one second try oh no it's not looking good oh my goodness that is oh my goodness good off good option novel through good day at the office the little bits and pieces a little Crossing and finishing um done our gym session the upper body lower body and and yeah not a little bit of recovery and then on our way home he's not gonna lift for me he's getting the train I'm taking the train just a little bit of recovery so that's it for today um like working day done all my training my gym it's 4 30 now so I'm just gonna shower um turn in my kit and then be on my way home taking the train so yeah so done showering this all goes into the skip and we're off and we are out okay finally back home it's like 3 15 I'm just getting the uh the game on right now but I'm having my snack back here I don't know if you can see it but I'm having an apple I'm having a big glass of water I got some uh snack make some cheddar snack mix boom and then I also have some petite echolier little chocolate biscuit things so I don't know how much I'm gonna eat but I'm pretty hungry from all those workouts and everything and I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy the rest of this game but I need to get it up because I'm already missing stuff and I also have my petite baby right here so we're gonna watch it together I'm gonna teach Scarlet a little thing or two or probably erling Holland's gonna teach Scarlet a thing or two to be honest [Music] free oh you look like a clear foul it wasn't clear found it was a clear booking okay we've watched about 15 minutes what's your score prediction um [Applause] I'm gonna say 2-1 Manchester City Scarlett she's holding a three and a one who who never know de bruyne just scored so it's 1-1 so Mimi's prediction is right I just need Man City now to score again and then uh my predictions right Mimi we bet uh who has to cook dinner tonight right what do you think this is I think I'm filming this video for fun coincidence that this is also fun wow what a strike congrats your prediction was pretty spot on always Scarlett your 3-1 prediction was terrible so it's like six o'clock at night uh we both have had a lot of work today I've been editing up this every touch game analysis against New England Revolution it's Scarlett smiling at me and Mimi's has her uh little design plans that she's been working out oh you okay I just pulled something careful I don't want you to work too hard my elbow and so dinner tonight I I don't know I think we're gonna kind of kind of smorgasbord it so I think it's like gonna be a combination of like smoothies a sandwich just going from there and we'll see but we'll probably be out here for another 10-15 minutes do a little bit of work just enjoy it starting to warm up here in Connecticut and then uh and then uh and then we will Smorgasbord dinner so neither of us has to cook it should be a night where we'd go out to dinner if I mean we couldn't take her but yeah it's a lot of work yeah [Music] so here's dinner so here's dinner big smoothie there's like two scoops of protein powder I think it adds up to like 40 or 50 grams of protein and then just strawberries mangoes and some dark cherries in here as well with water so pretty simple but it's a good smoothie you can have this I might also have pistachios as well just around the dinner there's like a kind of a smorgasbord random dinner because neither of us wanted to cook but since I finished this we need to start Scarlet's bedtime routine it's seven it's 7 30 at night and that's when we start to give her a bath get her all ready to kind of wind down because she's a little bit hyper right now and then we're gonna wind down and get you to bed at like nine nine o'clock tonight 's supposed to take but I missed it just barely a little bit of time to kill oh it's looking crowded [Music] thank you foreign [Music] come here come here hey hey come here hey Charlie come here I have a little snack before the peanut butter bagel and strawberries very underrated I'm gonna sit down outside play a bit of music because it's too nice of a day not to be outside am I right and um I'll give a little background on sometimes football backgrounds so this is a little setup we got some 70 dark chocolate like I said peanut butter Bagel strawberries strawberry smoothie speaker nice view in the back nice back Garden so before I get into this um let me just give you a bit of background about myself name is Devin Tansen as Matt said um I play right back for fulham's under 21s I've been at Fulham for two and a half years now I was born in San Antonio moved to Orlando Florida picked up football since I was three but I really got serious when I was six I had a coach his name is Mario Alvarado from Gosa um and he really saw something in me and gave me the opportunity to really develop and work hard at it you know every time I go back for the summer to visit family and everything I still train with him and that's been now 13 years so yeah he got me serious about football and then none of you really know but I lived in Spain for seven years they have those barsa Academy camps over in Florida spread out across the U.S I went to one of those when I was younger they liked what they saw and said to come try out and see if I liked it and yeah we moved to Spain for a multitude of reasons but I was able to play football for the horses pre-academy mascules for a little bit then I went hopping around different teams in in Spain I had some opportunities with the youth national team the US youth national team I'm like 15s to 17s and that's actually where Fulham saw me so we had a tournament in England and we played against I think England Spain and Denmark and they had scouted me there and this was around covet time so I moved to England on my own at 16 and my family were in Spain and then moved back to um to Florida and now I'm here not full of it's been a great great opportunity for me recently this season I've I've gotten the opportunity to to represent Colombia at the under 20 age um yeah so I've been able to represent Colombia this season and I just got called up a day ago for under 20 preliminary World Cup roster it's in Argentina so it's a great opportunity for me and I'm excited but it means I'm going my season with Fulham is pretty much out of close um but it's been a good season and I hope I gave a good little background of where I'm from and my footballing journey I guess you can say I will say when people give you their footballing Journeys or whatever like that it's uh it's mostly a summary of the highs but not really a summary of the lows and in this kind of sport in this industry you know there's a lot of lows you have to really keep a cold head because one day you could be over the moon everything's going for you and then others it's not any nothing's really clicking um so it's being able to stay humble and keeping a level head and just doing the same things that you do all the time um that bring you success so just working hard sacrifice um just stuff like that those the lows really make you figure out who you are and your character and all that so um nothing's just that it's all over the place yeah that's enough of that um now it's just time to enjoy The View relax a little bit settle in and then yeah just the later part of the today is just pretty relaxed normally if I have my roommate here um because he's gone at the moment we might be playing ping pong right now or like something like that um but he's not so I'm just kind of chilling out what are we saying about the Crocs though controversial take but I like them they're comfy this is what we're having for dinner try to stay hydrated got a little Tabasco sauce because I need some spice in your life Charlie you want some it's too bad not getting any time but yeah I know it may seem like a very football intensive day and it is um but it's what we love no complaints um of course I got a little hobbies and all that but um especially for the day in life y'all are interested in the football aspect of course still digesting from dinner but now the projector we're watching the first team played Liverpool we played their Academy so the 21s last weekend and let's just say it did not go well for us so let's hope that the first team has a different result and on a real note very cool experience to to do a video with Matt been following his content for quite some time um because these are right back I'm gonna write back as well all of his game analysis videos and drills and all that so it's pretty cool to see his influence even in the uh even at Fulham Academy I got a few players that recognize the channel and have been following as well so so it's pretty crazy his videos have reached all over the world that's the day in the life of an under 21 football player in England I hope you enjoyed the video make sure oh yeah of course um big thank you to Matt for allowing me to be on this channel I don't have a YouTube or anything but maybe in the future videos [Music] um but right now I'm just focused on getting a career in the sport um but a big thank you to Matt couldn't thank him enough if you enjoyed the video make sure to voice your enjoyment in the comments and with the engagement and all that YouTube nonsense but this is Devin signing off oh come on there you go so I want to show you guys uh Scarlett's Nursery still work in progress because uh you know she doesn't eat it yet up until about six months babies just kind of sleep in a bassinet next to your bed um but after six months uh which was actually coming up it's only two months away but after six months that's when we kind of move them into uh their own little room so Mimi has been doing 99 of this I've been helping out a little bit but uh yeah I'll show you what it looks like so we got her little crib put some wallpaper up painted um because this wasn't pink beforehand got a little bookshelves to read her some books when she gets a little bit older and then um put in these these drapes and then she's got her little closet with all of her clothes um back behind this door and hopefully in about two months she will be sleeping through the night in this crib but I doubt it it is eight o'clock at night um after I give Scarlett a bath and get her all changed in her pajamas and everything then I hand her off to Mimi Mimi stops working she goes upstairs and she starts to feed Scarlet while she's feeding I come back downstairs and I do a couple more not a couple more about an hour more of uh of work clean up a little bit downstairs do the dishes and then we meet up upstairs hopefully Scarlet's just about ready to fall asleep around 9 9 30 and then it's lights out and uh it's bedtime so that's a very typical day in our lives day of my life I hope you guys enjoyed this one and comparing it to Devin's I think that Devin's got a ton of potential going forward and it's gonna be really fun to follow his career and just see what happens over these next few years or 10 years or whatever I hope you guys follow him as well and hopefully you know he can make an appearance with the first team and if not with full and hopefully with somebody else anyway I'm going to finish off this work and then go to bed so if you guys enjoyed this video please hit the Thumbs Up Button subscribe and I'll see you guys in the next video bye guys peace [Music]

Channel: Become Elite

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Keywords: soccer, football, sports, vlog, matt, sheldon, become, elite, professional, pro, footballer, athlete, workout, weight, lift, train, training, saint, louis, fc

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Length: 32min 56sec (1976 seconds)

Published: Wed May 17 2023