Darrius Barnes @d_barnes25 | Perfect Soccer Podcast Ep.024
11 Year MLS Cup Champion Quincy Amarikwa’s (@QuincyAmarikwa) presents - The Perfect Soccer Podcast, Where your host Paul Guarino goes 1 on 1 to get to know your favorite professional soccer players, on and off the pitch.
In today’s episode: Paul interviewed former New England Revolution Defender Darrius Barrnes. Darrius discusses his time at Duke, playing for the New England Revolution his entire MLS career, and what it’s like to work for the MLS on the business side now.
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Time Stamp
0:00 - 1:25 Intro
1:26 - 2:19 Quarantine life
2:20 - 3:50 Black Live Matter
3:51 - 4:37 First memory playing soccer
4:38 - 5:47 Club team or high school or both?
5:48 - 6:54 Recruiting process
6:55 - 8:12 Picking Duke over UNC
8:13 - 9:12 Experience at Duke
9:13 - 10:22 The moment when Darrius knew he could be a pro
10:23 - 11:21 MLS draft day
11:22 - 12:59 1st MLS game experience
13:00 - 14:00 A MLS rookie record
14:01 - 16:06 Playing his whole MLS career with New England
16:07 - 17:03 2 MLS goals as a defender
17:04 - 19:13 NY Cosmos / Retirement in 2017
19:14 - 21:25 Working for the MLS on the business side
21:26 - 23:07 MLS is back tournament
23:08 - 23:29 Perfect Soccer Ad
23:30 - 29:23 Quincy’s 5 questions
29:24 - 32:35 Off the pitch questions
32:36 - 33:47 Outro
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