How Many Hours Did I Really Train? A Pro Player Gets Honest About His Childhood
About this episode
Erik McCue shares his honest journey of youth training and the realities of becoming a professional soccer player.
How many hours does it actually take to go pro? In this episode, we sit down with Erik McCue, a professional footballer, to get an honest, no-hype breakdown of what real youth training looked like on his path to the pro game. Erik walks us through his journey from casual pickup soccer as a kid to disciplined, high-volume training as a teenager — and shares the numbers most academies won't tell you. Coming up in this episode: The real hours he trained before age 12 Why his parents never pushed him — he pushed them The burnout mistake most soccer families make
People in this episode
Host: Neil Crawford
Guest: Erik McCue
Topics covered
- youth soccer
- professional training
- athlete development
- parenting in sports
- burnout in sports
Keywords
- youth training
- soccer
- professional athlete
- training hours
- parent involvement
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