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El sorprendente destino de Cody Gakpo: de Eindhoven a Anfield
![Write informative laconic excerpt under 30 words in mexican spanish for news below. Do not wrap it into quotation marks or html tags. LIVERPOOL, England -- There are moments of serendipity that can steer the fortunes of a footballer's career. For Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo, his came on Aug. 31, 2022.It was the penultimate day of the summer transfer window and Gakpo was a man in demand. He had excelled at boyhood club PSV Eindhoven with three goals and three assists from the first three Eredivisie games of the season (having managed 21 goals and 15 assists from 47 in all competitions the previous campaign) and there was transfer interest from two major Premier League clubs.As the deadline ticked down, he had three scenarios in front of him: he could sign for Leeds United or Southampton, or stay at PSV. He needed guidance, but he was also involved in a match that evening against FC Volendam. Unsure if it would be his last for PSV, he came up with a unique solution.- Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.)"It was hectic, and it was difficult from a mental point of view," Gakpo tells ESPN. "So, in the end I put it all in God's hands. If I scored once, I was going to Southampton; twice and I was going to Leeds; if I scored three, I was staying."PSV went on to win 7-1. Gakpo scored his first, a penalty, after 25 minutes. Then came his second 14 minutes later, a driven effort across the goalkeeper. It was ambiguous whether he could claim a third five minutes after the break, given his shot deflected heavily off a Volendam defender, and Gakpo was substituted in the 63rd minute thinking he'd scored two and that he was off to Leeds."I was sitting next to one of my close friends [on the bench] Jordan Teze," Gakpo says. "He said: 'It's in God's hands if he decides it's an own goal or not.' And at the end, it was [given as] my goal, so then it was three. I couldn't have got a clearer sign."Gakpo stayed and, four months and a World Cup later, signed for Liverpool for around €42 million.In May 2024, as he sits down in his Liverpool home to discuss his time at Anfield and his role with Netherlands at Euro 2024, he looks at what's been and what's to come. His new-born son, Samuel, is in another room with his partner, Noa, and Gakpo's mother, Ank. Memories of his career to date are all around him. He smiles as he remembers that night against Volendam when fate intervened: "It's worked out, yeah."From Eindhoven to AnfieldGakpo is talking ESPN through three of his most treasured possessions, which help tell the story of his journey from PSV's academy to Liverpool. In the background, Lulu, the family cockapoo, is running around barking. Gakpo's brother and agent Sidney is there, visiting his new nephew. Outside in the garden, two full-size goals sit on perfectly manicured grass.The first possession is a three-inch wooden hippotammus that goes everywhere with him. A trip to South Korea in 2011 for the Gyeongju International Youth (Under-12) Football Tournament pitted PSV against teams from Mexico, South Africa, Japan and South Korea. They lost the final to Mexico's Pachuca, but Gakpo won Player of the Tournament and was awarded a glass statue. But, as he was leaving, a member of the South Africa team came up to him and gave him the hippo as recognition for his performance."Their perception of life was totally different than ours," he says. "I remember thinking there was so much more to life than a trophy, and this meant everything to them. I take the hippo everywhere I go, and I really appreciated that gift from them, even more than the trophy."It's clear that football was always in his blood. His father Johnny played football; his mother Ank was a rugby player. On the walls of his bedroom as a youth were posters of his father's heroes, Pelé and Diego Maradona, the 2010 Barcelona team, and his own local heroes: Phillip Cocu, Ibrahim Afellay, Jefferson Farfan and Arouna Koné, all at PSV.In fact, Gakpo made his Eredivisie debut for PSV's first team in February 2018 under the management of Cocu. He was an injury-time substitute for Steven Bergwijn as PSV won 3-1 at Feyenoord and from there he developed into an integral part of the team -- playing predominantly just off the left, up front."He was 11 years old when he came into my squad, where he grew all the way to the first team," his former PSV youth coach Twan Scheepers tells ESPN. "That point when he was growing so quickly -- first his feet, but also his whole body was growing in all kinds of different ways, so he found that tough. He had some difficulties with coordination with his feet, but then the rest of his body caught up."He was determined to become a big football player -- he had a dream, and still has that dream. Most of all back then, he was enjoying life, playing football with friends on the streets at grassroots, and youth academy, and enjoying where he was. He was determined to be a big, great player. He loves football and likes developing, challenging himself and wants to get better every day. That all started at an early age to make the dream reality."The second keepsake is a Fans' Player of the Year trophy he was awarded in (he thinks) 2020 or 2021. Then, finally, there's the armband from one of the first times he captained PSV in the Champions League playoff against Benfica in 2021.But as Gakpo's development caught the eye of Europe's biggest teams, he grew accustomed to the idea that there was life beyond the Philips Stadion. After impressing at the 2022 World Cup for Netherlands, he was on holiday in Dubai, picking through their quarterfinal exit to Argentina on penalties, when he got a call from his brother."My brother, who was also my agent, and [my] other agent called me and said there was interest from Liverpool, pretty serious, but I was really calm," he says. "I'd learned [that] from the previous window. So we just looked at the situation really calmly: if it happens, it happens, if it's not happening, yeah, it's not happening. But it went quickly. We came back 23, 24 or 25 [of December]; 25th was personal terms agreed; 26th clubs agreed; 27th, I was there [in Liverpool]. So, it went really fast."It was very hard [to leave PSV]. I played there in total, I think with academy and everything together, 17 or so years; lots of friends, lots of good people. But yeah, I think it was just time. That was where I could feel God's presence as well because it was just in his hands, and it happened so quick. I was so calm, and I was not really stressed about those things. So that was for me also a sign like it's a God move."A source of guidanceGakpo is the subject of a three-part documentary in the Netherlands called "Psalm 20:4" -- a passage from the Bible that reads: "May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed." The forward channels his faith into everyday life and it has had a calming effect in moments of stress."It's a lifestyle to be good to everybody, how to behave, how to react in certain situations and it's what I try to live by," he says. "It's easier said than done, nobody's perfect, but we try to be."Memphis [Depay] is a really a religious guy, but it was at the World Cup [where they got together]. We deal with a lot of situations on the pitch, but also outside of the pitch. Everybody [has an opinion] and that can really trigger our emotions and everything. We got together and just spoke about maybe anger or feelings, and what does the Bible say or what does God say about those things? And yeah, that brought us as a group closer to each other, but also we learned something from that as well and [we] try to behave in the same kind of way."Netherlands defender Denzel Dumfries spoke to the media at the World Cup about the importance of the group at the time. "In the last few days we have prayed a lot with [Gakpo] and he has shared his faith with us," he said. "How he finds himself in it. The sessions were very special, that gave me a lot of strength and I'm very grateful."Gakpo reads and studies how "we as humans work, how we think, how we react in certain situations," but also spends his time away from the training ground immersed in self-improvement and football. He prefers not to watch YouTube highlight reels and has been working with his own tactical coach, Loran Vrielink, the founder of Tactalyse. The two have worked together since early in his PSV days."It's a bit like a Zoom call," Gakpo says. "We look at clips from the previous game and see what I can improve position-wise into the next match. He lives in Spain, he picks clips sometimes, but I can also ask him how [he] sees a certain situation ... or position-wise and stuff. But yeah, just trying to improve."Vrielink tells ESPN: "Cody is an amazing player who understands what is necessary to perform at the top level. Many players who come to us, they start when they are kind of not performing and they ask okay, how can I perform better?"Cody, that was not the case. Cody was performing, but he was thinking like, okay, how can I even become a better player? We analyse his whole game, with 300-400 clips per match. We look at all of his technical decisions, and then we discuss that with him to understand why he's good, how he can become a better player, and also what type of mistakes he's doing. This all says a lot about his personality, thirst for knowledge and thought-process that he always want to improve and that he does everything he can to become a better player, basically."There are also sources of guidance and inspiration in training every day at Liverpool."We have Mo Salah who's really a professional guy with his food and is in the gym very early and after training as well," he says. "I learn a lot from everybody, but have also learned a lot from situations themselves. I speak to the more experienced players like Virgil [van Dijk], like Mo, like Alisson [Becker], Trent [Alexander-Arnold], Robbo [Andy Robertson], who [have been] there a long time."Last season [we had] [Jordan] Henderson, [James] Milner, Oxlade [Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain], so yeah, a lot of experience, a lot of knowledge about football and about life. So in every conversation I could learn something on the pitch and off the pitch. I'm grateful for those moments as well."Gakpo has always pursued business interests outside of football with his family in mind. He is involved with a group of athletes -- including ex-Brazil left-back Marcelo; Nigeria captain William Troost-Ekong; F1 drivers Lando Norris, Carlos Sainz, Valtteri Bottas; rugby star Maro Itoje and cycling legend Mark Cavendish -- in a sports investment firm called APEX. He also has a small property portfolio in the Netherlands."I know everybody has heard the stories from former players that when they stop their football, it was difficult to live the same life without the monthly pay," he says. "I want to build a legacy for my kids and their kids to come, so investment-wise, you have to look at real estate, private equity, start-ups, and, well, just interesting things in general."The impact of fatherhood has certainly changed Gakpo's perception of the world. "I learnt a lot of lessons from my parents," he says. "So I will teach my son some of them as well. I think the important ones are: just try to be honest, be a righteous person, be kind to one another, take care of your family and one day, look after his brothers and sisters."He dedicated his goal in Liverpool's 4-2 win over Tottenham Hotspur on May 5 to his son, sucking his thumb in celebration after he nodded home a Harvey Elliott cross. One day Samuel will come along to a match and watch his dad score. "That's going to be very cool," he says. "Hopefully they can be proud and learn a lot from who I was at that time, both as a person and a player."In the immediate future, though, Gakpo has a chance to make his family, and his country, very proud this summer. He will be an integral part of Netherlands' squad as they seek to win their first men's Euros title since 1988."I think the expectations are high," he says. "I think we have on paper a very, very good team, with big names. But I think we as a group are tight as well with each other, and I think we expect a lot from each other because we've known each other a long time."We know what the other is capable of, so we have a lot of expectations on ourselves. I don't know what the outside world's perceptions are of us, but we want to achieve the highest possible [target] and that's winning the Euros. It's going to be very difficult, but that's what we aim for." ,El delantero Cody Gakpo, de PSV, marcó su destino con tres goles ante FC Volendam, antes de firmar por Liverpool por €42 millones en 2022.](https://losdeportes.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Wed-5-Jun-2024-055855-EST.jpg)
El delantero Cody Gakpo, de PSV, marcó su destino con tres goles ante FC Volendam, antes de firmar por Liverpool por €42 millones en 2022.
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![Write informative laconic excerpt under 30 words in mexican spanish for news below. Do not wrap it into quotation marks or html tags. ST. PAUL, Minnesota -- United States women's national team head coach Emma Hayes is still learning some of the American sports lingo in her first weeks on the job.On Tuesday, under a steady rain at Allianz Field that reminded the British coach of home, Hayes implored her team to finish off a South Korea team that rarely threatened the Americans, but trailed by only one goal at that point."'I want you to put your pedal to the metal,'" Hayes recalled telling the team. "And [assistant coach Denise Reddy] said to me, 'Don't you ever say that again!'"- Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.)As awkward as it might have been, it worked. The USWNT scored two more times -- including a debut goal for 16-year-old midfielder Lily Yohannes in her first cap -- to win, 3-0.Now comes crunch time for Hayes, to borrow another uniquely American sports phrase. After two games in charge and just over a week of training, she must select her 18-player Olympic roster in the coming weeks. Some players' performances on Tuesday made the job that much harder.Yohannes shot up that list after making an immediate impact in her much-anticipated debut. Her late goal punctuated a solid 20 minutes of distribution in midfield, including a pass to Trinity Rodman moments earlier that led to Rodman ripping a shot off the crossbar.The midfield, though, was already crowded even before Yohannes saw the field. The USWNT's starting trio of Korbin Albert, Rose Lavelle, and captain Lindsey Horan helped control the game on Tuesday against a South Korea side that once again sat in a low block of five defenders. Hayes has praised Horan throughout this camp as a team leader, and Lavelle is a known entity who earned her 100th cap on Tuesday; she is arguably the team's most creative player.Albert is much newer to the mix, but the Paris Saint-Germain midfielder has quickly proven she can compete at this level. On Tuesday, Albert and Horan combined to dictate the pace of the game, patiently waiting for the right moments to pull South Korea out of its defensive shape. It wasn't always perfect, but it was effective in the right moments. Above all, it was patient."I think a big thing for us is just being more patient on both ends of the ball, not just going forward every single time," Lavelle said. "I think it's just [being] patient with our movement, patient with our shifting side to side with the ball, and finding different ways to beat their forwards, beat their midfield, and break them down."Hayes made nine changes from the lineup that defeated South Korea 4-0 three days earlier in Colorado. The goal, Hayes said on Monday, would be to give new players an opportunity to process the information "overload" that the staff had thrown at them all week and show that they can apply it in a game setting. Among the players ostensibly on the bubble to make Hayes' Olympic roster, Albert did that as well as anyone on Tuesday.There is context, however, to her on-field success. Albert's prior social media activity -- which surfaced in March -- appeared to support anti-LGBTQIA+ content and make light of an injury to former U.S. winger Megan Rapinoe. Albert apologized and the team held internal discussions in an April camp that were not shared publicly. Albert remained on that roster and was called up again for this camp.Hayes made pointed comments on Saturday that she expects a tolerant environment in the locker room, and her words about players needing to feel supported when they take the field came in the aftermath of Albert being booed by the home crowd in Colorado on Saturday."I want everybody to be patient," Hayes said on Saturday. "There are a lot of younger players. On the pitch, they are learning, but they want to give everything for their shirt and they want to give everything for their country. Off the pitch, some make mistakes. Some have to learn. My job as a coach is to help teach them and guide them."In pure soccer terms -- an oversimplification, no doubt -- Hayes and her staff appear to rate the versatile Albert, and the midfielder's performance on Tuesday will have reaffirmed that. How Albert, Yohannes, and others potentially fit into the USWNT's Olympic roster is the mental gymnastics that will occupy Hayes in the coming weeks. Horan and Lavelle are veterans with World Cup titles. Defensive midfielder Sam Coffey has become a regular, including alongside Albert in the team's Concacaf W Gold Cup triumph earlier this year, and is the best pure defensive midfielder in the pool.Then there are the questions of where to play versatile attackers Catarina Macario and Jaedyn Shaw. Macario started as the USWNT's No. 10 on Saturday, while Shaw started in a hybrid winger role on Tuesday. She struggled to find the game in the first half before coming alive in the second half, including when she moved into the No. 10 role. That reiterated a trend: Shaw is clearly best suited to the No. 10 role, but the same can be said for several equally talented players.Defensively, Hayes got further affirmation on Tuesday that Jenna Nighswonger is the real deal as a left-footed, left full-back who can press high up onto the forward line. Nighswonger assisted the USWNT's opening goal -- scored by Crystal Dunn, who started at forward for the team for the first time in nearly seven years. Nighswonger was magnetic on the ball on Tuesday and one of only two players, alongside Horan, to start both games against South Korea.She played next to left-sided center-back Sam Staab, who earned her first international start. Staab's steady play in the National Women's Soccer League seemed to long warrant a call-up, but that did not come until the most recent camp. She stepped into the role seamlessly on Tuesday, nearly scoring on a set-piece in the first half."I think it was worth it and I wouldn't have it any other way," Staab said of the long wait for her first cap.Hayes is not short of talent to choose from. She has spoken frequently about the need for balance between this rising group of young stars and the veterans who got the team to where it is now. <That includes forward Alex Morgan, who started in the No. 9 role on Tuesday and earned Hayes' praise for working hard despite limited touches against South Korea's low block. Morgan's spin-turn sparked the transition play that led to Dunn's early goal.A wave of USWNT substitutions at the hour mark opened up the game. The connection between Rodman, Sophia Smith and Mallory Swanson was easy to see, though they all came on with fresh legs against a tired South Korea defense.An exhausted Hayes appeared to be losing her voice after Tuesday's match. She's been going for 10 months straight, she said, referring to how she spent the entire European season with Chelsea before joining the USWNT a few days after that job ended in May. She said she will meet with her staff on Wednesday morning and then she needs the rest of the week to rest before heading to U.S. Soccer's headquarters in Chicago to plan the road to the Olympics."[The group's] not afraid of letting go of things we have to let go of," Hayes said Tuesday, among a chorus of praises for players. "Bold enough, brave enough to want whatever it takes to improve. I've been so impressed with them as people."Hayes must now choose which of those people she'll invite along for the ride to the 2024 Olympics and press down on the gas pedal. The Olympics begin next month. ,Entrenadora de la selección femenina de Estados Unidos, Emma Hayes, sigue adaptándose al argot deportivo estadounidense en su nuevo rol. Con buen desempeño, se acerca la elección final del equipo olímpico.](https://losdeportes.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Wed-5-Jun-2024-011259-EST.jpg)
Entrenadora de la selección femenina de Estados Unidos, Emma Hayes, sigue adaptándose al argot deportivo estadounidense en su nuevo rol. Con buen desempeño, se acerca la elección final del equipo olímpico.
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Lily Yohannes, la tercera goleadora más joven de la historia del USWNT
![Write informative laconic excerpt under 30 words in mexican spanish for news below. Do not wrap it into quotation marks or html tags. ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Sixteen-year-old Lily Yohannes scored 10 minutes into her international debut on Tuesday at Allianz Field in the United States women's national team's 3-0 victory over South Korea to become the third-youngest scorer in program history."It's a dream come true, really," said Yohannes, who came in as a substitute in the 72nd minute. "I played this scenario out in my head like how many times before this game? Just having the idea of coming on and scoring."Yohannes is the eighth-youngest player to ever debut for the USWNT and the youngest player to take the field for the team since March 2021."She doesn't look like a 16-year-old," USWNT head coach Emma Hayes said after the match. "She knows what I think about her. I've really pushed and wanted her in this squad."Yohannes scored in the 82nd minute, after forward Trinity Rodman collected a short corner kick and dribbled past her defender to slide a ball to Yohannes for the finish from 10 yards out. The teenager ran to the corner to celebrate and was quickly surrounded by exuberant teammates."That was so special," Yohannes said. "I think that made it just that much more special. I just took off to the corner and I saw all of them running at me. Just super, super special and so grateful. Such a great team."After the final whistle, several USWNT players sprinted straight to Yohannes for group hugs.Hayes said she told Yohannes at the beginning of training camp last week that she would use her in the midfield for her debut at some point in the two matches against South Korea during this international window.The new USWNT coach is deeply familiar with Yohannes, having played against her in last season's UEFA Champions League group stage when Hayes was still managing Chelsea.Yohannes was born in Virginia, but her family moved to the Netherlands when she was 10. She signed with Dutch club Ajax as a 15-year-old and, last fall, became the youngest player to ever start a UEFA Women's Champions League group-stage match.Netherlands coach Andries Jonker has publicly courted the midfielder and said that Yohannes was pursuing a Dutch passport, but Yohannes had said multiple times before this training camp that she was not looking too far into the future.She was first called up by the USWNT in April, before Hayes officially arrived on the sideline.Crystal Dunn, who scored the opening goal against South Korea and played forward for the USWNT for the first time in almost seven years, lauded the "even keeled" Yohannes for scoring the "smoothest first goal I've ever seen."USWNT midfielder Rose Lavelle, who appeared in her 100th international match on Tuesday, said Yohannes has a high ceiling. "Oh my God, she's like the most mature 16-year-old I've ever met," Lavelle said. "I feel like she's more mature than me, honestly." Hayes said on Tuesday that Yohannes can get out of pressure smoothly with well-weighted passes in midfield."She is a natural footballer that is confident in her abilities," Hayes said. "I think playing in Europe has helped, has accelerated [her]."She's had exposures that many American 16-year-olds have not had, and it shows. There was a maturity to it even at a tender age. She manages it. It's her second camp and there's already been a step up from the first to the second. I want to celebrate her first cap. It's a really special moment for her and her family." ,La joven Lily Yohannes, de 16 años, marca en su debut internacional con la selección femenina de EE. UU. en victoria 3-0 sobre Corea del Sur.](https://losdeportes.mx/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Wed-5-Jun-2024-002619-EST.jpg)
La joven Lily Yohannes, de 16 años, marca en su debut internacional con la selección femenina de EE. UU. en victoria 3-0 sobre Corea del Sur.
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