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April 10, 2025 • 14 mins
C'MON YOU BOYS IN GREEN! Athletic Kick off vs Indy 11 on Saturday. Joe Farrell #15 joins the boys for a preview.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back on The Robeavills Show. If been Darnell in your
afternoon drive. Joining's on the rodeb Show Hotline.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Joe Ferrell thirty one years young and ten years in
the league. He is a defender for the Harford Athletic
And Joe, I mean, I'm reading up on you and
you know you've played, your next game will be your
two hundredth game played. You're over fifteen thousand minutes, and
they make it seem like you're forty years old, but
you're really thirty one.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
No, I still feel young as can be, obviously not
as young as I once was, and singing back to
maybe my rookie year so and especially coming off this
past week, we had a busy schedule with three games
in eight days, and my body's definitely telling me that
I'm in my thirties, but if my mind's still young

(00:46):
as can be.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Joe tell us about like defenders versus just in a
soccer sense, are the defenders and the goalies like in
their own click and you guys really don't hang out
with midfielders and forwards, Like is that across a thing
with the athletics, Like how does it go in the
locker room? With defenders against other positions, I would say, I.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Would say goalkeepers kind of have their own thing going on.
Goalkeepers are a different breed to be able to throw
their body on the floor time and time again and
take shots off all parts of their body. So I
would say that the goalkeepers tend to tend to stick together.
For us field players, yeah, defensively we do work together

(01:31):
and have video sessions and defensive group sessions, But when
it comes to hanging out the field players, if you're
a field player, you're a field player. Doesn't matter if
you're a striker, midfielder, defender. But in my years, I've
noticed that the the goalies tend to have their own
little union. But I think that's that comes with the

(01:55):
territory being a goalkeeper. You have to have. You have
to think a little differently to be able to throw
your body on the ground and across the goal and
in front of shots. So defenders we have it a
little bit, but not as much as those guys.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Talking to Joe Ferrell, defender the Harford Athletic. All right,
so I got a weird question here. My fourteen year
old was just put on defense in lacrosse.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
She doesn't like it. She wants to be a four woo.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Tell all the young kids how important defense is in
all of these different respective sports. And when your coach says,
and this happened to her, you're the best defender. So
when did somebody say you're the best defender, Joe, And
you're probably fast, You probably wanted to score goals, and
now you have to go on the other side of
the field and keep goals from going in and helping

(02:46):
the goalie. Explain that for younger kids that it's not
at themotion.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, well, speaking back to what we were chatting about,
just for this call went live. I'm from the Photo
Ofphi area and I went to school district and when
I was in Whiskey in high school, I actually played
lacrosse myself and I was a midfield flash forward. So
I have played other sports. I have played other positions,

(03:14):
but it doesn't matter, particularly in soccer, but in all sports.
It doesn't matter if your label defender all players on
the field at one time when you don't have the
ball you're defending. So in soccer, we lead with our strikers.
Our strikers they have to get good, good ball pressure.
So the other team can't just walk up the field

(03:35):
and passed from from the from their half into our
half too easily.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
So even though they.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Are strikers, they're still responsible defensively and that comes with
all teams sports. That responsibility of defense isn't an individual
mindset or this team has three defenders, so there's only
three people thinking about defense. It in any team sports, basketball, hockey, baseball,

(04:02):
all all the players are thinking about defense at some
point when when your team's out of possession or the
other teams at bat. Every every player on the field
should be thinking about defense. So making the switch from
from offense to to defense or a more forward aggressive position,
goal scoring position to defense isn't the most star studded

(04:25):
or or you don't always get your names in life,
but as long as you perform and your team wins,
that's that's the best thing for for any athlete. So
being able to do your part as a teammate and
if if you're a good defender, defending as hard as
you can and helping your team win from from the back,

(04:46):
uh is the way that you get recognitions. So all
sports kind of have have that that mindset of I'm
a striker, maybe I don't have to defend. Maybe I
I or let's say basketball, I'm a point guard. Maybe
I don't have to be the best defender. But I'm
just going to score thirty points and hope that our
team wins. If you see March Madness, you see how

(05:10):
important the games are defensively and how many turnovers can
ignite offensive spark or have your team moving and getting
momentum and trending towards a winning game.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Talking to Joe Farrell, he's holding it down the backside
defender number fifteen, Hartford Athletic. They got a Saturday affair
two o'clock kickoff against the Indy eleven over there at
Dylan Stadium, the Trendy Health Stadium. Joey, you did bring
up March Madness is parade day, So as soon as
the parade is over for the women's basketball national championship
team from Yukon, everybody should hang or head on over

(05:45):
to Dylan Stadium for kickoff. And now, also, as you
are so good at talking about kids, just then giving
Coco some advice. Dibbs's daughter is reading some bio Man
from wis a hick in high school. As we were
talking before we started this interview. They love you there,
but you told us like, you're not the star, your
mom's the star. And after you told us about that,
it's like, now I know where he gets all the

(06:07):
goodwill towards kids, towards animals. He's a lover of all things,
like you can get it from your mom. Man, tell
us about your mom, and tell us about your high
school experience. You say Philadelphia, but this is like north
side of Philly.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Right, Yeah, it's the suburbs. I claimed Philadelphia, but I
was a suburb baby. Yeah. So I'm super grateful for
my family. I'm incredibly blessed for not only my parents
but also my siblings. But getting back to my mom,
she was a teacher for over forty years. And speaking

(06:40):
of what Saking school district, she taught in that school
district alone for about thirty five years and she just
retired last year, so she's enjoying her first year of retirement.
But yeah, so my father was also a Division one
soccer coach, So working with not only youth but adolesson

(07:01):
going into the grown ups, it is something that I've
always kind of been and was able to witness growing up.
So that was part of my nurture was being around
really caring grown ups and individuals who also cared for
the next generation. So being able to see that, it
just comes naturally for me to work along alongside with kids.

(07:25):
And I have nieces and nephews. I'm the youngest of
my siblings, so now I have seven nieces and nephews
who are always a blast to hang out with. When
I go home in the off season. I tend to
coach their teams a little bit and help them out
that way. So it's really cool to see how the
next generation approaches athletics, but also just life in the

(07:48):
world in general, and being able to shape that in
any way that I can. I feel blessed.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
So I love this guy. That's fantastic. That's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
All right, tell us about the Harvard Athletic Like you said,
three games, eight days, you guys are probably a little
bit dragging. Where do you sit right now? I think
you're twelve. How do you guys feel about the season
so far?

Speaker 1 (08:12):
The goals?

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Joe, Yeah, yeah, the season's gotten off to a bumpy start,
but being in the matches, the matches have been a
lot closer than then the score line has shown We've
had multiple chances to score in each game, and defensively
we've been pretty solid, but we've had moments of lapses,

(08:35):
whether it's a restart or a restart that gets cleared
and then a second phase of the restart. It seems
like we've had a few, just a few small minor
details that we're still ironing out as we're in the
start of our season. But I believe in this group.
I think that we have talent through the roster. We're

(08:57):
a younger team and a smaller roster this year, but
the guys in the locker room I faced him and
you saw last year we also didn't get off to
the best start, but we ended the season. We had
the most points in arts for athletic history. We ended
out one point away or one or two points away
from the last playoff position, and we finished the year.

(09:21):
I think we had ten wins out of our last
fourteen to fifteen games. So we really found our stride.
And that's what we're looking for right now, is finding
our stride. So even when we lose the game, if
there's a lesson in that loss, and hopefully we only
learned particular lessons only once a season so as we

(09:42):
fight through some of these bee bumps at the start
of the year, I think everyone's still focused on the
quality of this team and coming together as teammates and
as a collective to come out on top of these games.
And we're heading into April with a three game homestand
coming up we got three big matches the next each

(10:02):
of the next Saturday nights, so playing in front of
our fans, we were great last year, so we're hoping
to keep that going again. And playing at Dylan it
always gives that little bit extra energy, So hopefully that
energy pushes us over the line and we get our
first win, and then we started to get on a roll.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
There's something about the defenders in the supporter section that
just I don't know, there's a better relationship there. We
just love you over there because I guess you're on
our side of the screaming area, especially if you're on
that side of the field. But Saturday two o'clock Indy eleven,
Trendy Hell Stadium, Downtown Harford, this guy, Joe Ferrell will
be a part of hopefully a win to get some

(10:44):
points on the board. Now you're the poster boy of
this team, like every poster, I I.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Would have said that, I don't know, man, you're front.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
And center there pushing Joe Ferre because you're the tough guy.
Like at least the look. I think we're figuring out
you're not so tough and you're you're a sweetheart. But
the look, man, And the one thing I want to
ask you, because you know, we do a lot of
baseball here and we talk about chains all the time
in these baseball players with their chains. And I noticed
there's two people in particular with the Harford Athletic that

(11:10):
are big on the chain game, and one being Joe
Ferrell where he goes two chains in his picture on
the roster. The other your goalie Anthony Sahia, he has
like forty chains on. What is up with the chains?
Do you play with chains? What is the like your
chain philosophy? When did you get your first chain? Tell
me all about your chains?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (11:31):
All right, all right, so a lot in this question.
Well as athletes, I mean, like you said, off the field,
I've work with kids. My mom was a school teacher,
so I've going I'd go in school at times, I
coached some private lessons. So I'm as you said in

(11:51):
your words on mine a sweetheart off the field, off
the field. But the thing with athletes is you have
to have that ability when you step on the line,
you almost become a new person. You have that little, uh,
that little bit of fire inside that when you're playing
your game, you're when you're playing your sport, you're able

(12:12):
to express that fire and show that fire and that passion.
So that's why I like, I love to play defense.
I love to make other people frustrated. I love to
hit people, hitting people, I love it. So as a defender,
getting that that little bit of flare and letting that

(12:37):
fire come out, it's good moving to the chains. I
think that's also part of being an athlete. You have
to almost embrace your persona persona and whatever your style is,
you got to go for it because not everyone has
the employment where they get to go and where whatever
they want to work. So, uh, we we have that

(12:58):
ability to go into a game day and you know
the classic adage is look good, feel good, play good.
So I think that that's, uh, that's my mindset when
it comes to the change. I like to look good
and feel good heading into a match, and then from
there I just let my emotions out and I really
expressed myself on the field, and whether that's hitting somebody

(13:21):
defensively or scoring a goal on offense, you get to
have the excitement and that escape for US athletes.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
What about your goaltender, Anthony Man like he's going to og,
He's going to over gold like he he got I'm
telling you he's got.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Anthony's got style. I'll give him that. I don't know
if I could pull off as many changes as he does,
but he's got his own style and it works for him.
I know he's a he's a West Coast kid, so
he's had some experience out there. And I believe he
also is very into fashion. I believe he has a
side hustle of his is his own clothing lot awesome nice. Yeah,

(14:02):
So with that, that's another way that US athletes get
to have an outlet. It's it's not only what we're
doing on the field, but it's how we steal and
what we're doing off the field as well.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well. Joe, thank you so much for a few minutes
of your time. Man.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Good luck in the future, and don't don't worry go
to Puerto Rico. Gold is really cheap there. I used
to get a lot of over there, so it's.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Easy to get chains in Puerto Rico.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Good luck, sir, good luck this weekend.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Awesome, Thank you guys,
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