# Danny Williams, Life as a Professional Footballer, & Using Social Media | #AskGaryVee 289

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Gary Vaynerchuk
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uv0ZHDBYsc
- **Дата:** 14.08.2018
- **Длительность:** 50:43
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## Описание

On episode 289 of the #AskGaryVee Show, the extremely talented professional footballer Danny Williams stops by and we talk about:
- Becoming a professional footballer
- How footballers use social media
- The use of social media as a whole in today's day in age

#QUESTIONS:
17:27 - “When you moved into playing for the general national team and started playing against much better players, did it affect your confidence at all?”
19:40 -  “How were you able to overcome the initial pessimistic input from outside voices when you said that you wanted to become a professional footballer given that the odds of being one are so low?”
22:56 - “As fans, we want 24/7 access to the players (watching you eat dinner after the game, etc.), but as a player, how do you feel about that?”
25:27 - “When you’re a smaller company, how do you not get taken advantage of by bigger companies?”
27:54 - “If you had to transfer to another premier league team, who would it be and why?”
36:16 - “Do you think there will be a backlash with social media in terms of time spent on it, privacy, etc?”
39:35 - “What’s the difference between the German and American national team and who do you want to be the coach of the American national team?”

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## Содержание

### [17:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uv0ZHDBYsc&t=1047s) “When you moved into playing for the general national team and started playing against much better players, did it affect your confidence at all?”

yes like massively like it was quite intimidating because within a club and they say to you to do the biggest talent right so you think okay I'm gonna go there and I'm gonna rip it up but then you actually play with some players from different counties you know different animals from the same country and it's like okay you have actually plants they're better than you and then you start to realize okay maybe another sport or whatever so who's the person who's the first player you ever came across even if it was when you were five or when it was this big jump where you were like holy [ __ ] like even if it's somebody famous or if it's some person that never made it do you recall the first time you came across a player that you were just like this is different to advance this it was I'm sorry Tony Cruz when I played against him in the youth I was like this [ __ ] is something else and was it the speed no not because of the speed because I think I'm too good at him and I'm just the way he leaves the ball and like it's phenomenal everything is just crazy in the talent the raw talent he has and also messages who some people like me to say that but he gets a lot of state which I understand because of this body language and the way he carries himself you know what stood out to you when you first crossed his path with him it was just his calmness like I think I played against him and he was probably 18 19 and I think you playful manner Bremen the time and he was just like how he moved the ball and everything he actually took the game in his hands already and he was 19 and everybody who ever played football they know how tough it is to control the game especially when you're a young player because I mean you have the confidence that you are people to believe in you to getting the ball and stuff and the way he created the chances and has I think he's always two three steps ahead of you like he knows it the game is playing out of here actually and that's like he really surprised me very cool questions

### [19:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uv0ZHDBYsc&t=1180s) “How were you able to overcome the initial pessimistic input from outside voices when you said that you wanted to become a professional footballer given that the odds of being one are so low?”

yes sir the question is how are you able to overcome the inevitable pessimistic you know cynicism like when you know at some point whether you were 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 you're saying I'm gonna be a professional for quite low how were you able to not hear your friend or your uncle or a neighbor I think for a lot of us I think it maps to everything in life how are you able to shut out the noise what was it inside of you parenting results somebody why were you able to always you know because there's no way you end up to where you are without at every insecurity be able to say no I'm gonna get over this hump versus I'm gonna go this way or I can't get over to hump or let me go backwards for me was quite easier they washed Connor in Brenna's elementary you know he always speaks about yes and I have to admit the minute I was I had a bottom line Michael Murphy's I knew I just visualized it in my head like I'm going to be preparing a professional football player and it sounds weird but I always had this belief and I saw myself kicking a ball in the stadium and was crazy when I played my first game and my parents they stood there crying I visualized that are like 17 years yeah you know I mean did your parents look the way you visualize them 17 years earlier actually you know it's why I'm asking you that I would argue I do a lot of similar things and they're just premonitions it's not very clear but I always laugh that the people at the time look the way they look then and I always think it's funny because 20 years later they much older and it looks different but it looks different than it was in your mind I get that and also like I just said to your parents blindly on board was like would your mom a lot of trouble when I have enough like mine when I moved to this Academy my mom she was diagnosed with breast cancer and my dad had like alcoholic problems and Brahma he was in a lot of trouble so like when from is you know not the easiest but I always said to myself I want to be the one who stands out from that them didn't want to make them proud and I want to make myself talk because end of the day I don't only have to prove that stuff to myself when you're going through those kind of difficulties at such a young age was the pitch was the field a escape from all the [ __ ] definitely no it was the medicine yeah I always felt free when I was on the pitch like a solution what's going on yeah the family would devour it when I the minute I stepped my foot on the page gone it's gone I'm free so and then it's funny because when I had more anger when my parents when they were fighting you know right two three hours before game I would play better because I was so angry and I just said on the pitch I understand questions yes sir

### [22:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uv0ZHDBYsc&t=1376s) “As fans, we want 24/7 access to the players (watching you eat dinner after the game, etc.), but as a player, how do you feel about that?”

I'm gonna repeat that it's a great question thank you for that the question is as fans we are now especially in the new digital age yearning for aspiring hoping that it could be a 24/7 thing in the locker room after the met we want to watch you eat dinner and after the match of what you're talking about we want that access as a player how do you feel about that not against it because I love going in the dressing room and you know having been done with the boys and it's just like so different from the outside world because even with some friends I have and they don't have to do anything with football they're just so different like the jokes stuff they love about different things the power sport is love of course and laughs so it's so different and I don't have nothing against it I think let me ask you a question that I've always been interested in have there been in the last three four years as this world has exploded this always on content world have there been teams that you've been a part of that some of the players look down on the other players that are spending a lot of time trying to build their brand on Instagram trying to sign entrepreneurship is there an animosity of like this isn't the way we should be doing it if you were this foot like is there if they have a you know you talk about the fans saying hey why are you eating is there a level of tension in the locker rooms of you know some guys doing three public appearances and is that a keynote at a tech conference and isn't playing as well as the teammate thinks that he should is there a little bit of that old-school new-school tension in the locker room identity I mean you can definitely sense a difference when it comes to the doughnut and a range you know the players who retire or about to retire another 35 36 they aren't and you know a player who's 18 19 he just posts every day post up on his wearing when using Selfridges when he's doing that it's like crazy over patent rights whatever it is and then you can see the other guys said listen focus on football I sincerely interpret but that's just how it is yeah this in this world will be living at the moment like it's a big run by social media as well and if you use it the right way and you can actually calculate on it as well yes sir

### [25:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uv0ZHDBYsc&t=1527s) “When you’re a smaller company, how do you not get taken advantage of by bigger companies?”

yeah I mean the question just to repeat it is when you're a smaller company how do you not get taken advantage of by bigger companies you know Vayner was a very small company when I started it and we worked with the biggest companies in the world right away with a little bit of my reputation I'm a very interesting answer to this it's twofold first of all when you have your own company and you have clients you're in control of whether you're being in taken advantage of or not if you're a client provider if you have clients you're more than welcome to pick up the phone and say I don't want to work with you anymore and here's the money back or I don't want your money anymore so first of all every small business just needs to know that that's the great part of having a business you're also in charge right number two I would argue for a lot of small businesses the goal is to be taking advantage of I think about the first three to four years of vaynermedia very similar to the way Mohammed Ali fought George Foreman in Zaire I think I wrote a doped the industry I think the industry thought they were taking advantage of Boehner and they weren't we were doing so much more work for the money they were paying me versus the companies that were much bigger than us when we started I also think that's why I let it happen because that was the value prop that we didn't have reputation I was a wine shop owner now in you know and social media was not what it is today when I started Vayner in 2009 most of our clients thought that you know it was a fad so I think two things one you're in control and two it's actually probably the leverage you have and I think too many small businesses go ideology on this they've become ideological about it like oh I'm getting taken advantage of your big boy it's your bed you can sleep in it like I think you need to use it as an offense I think it is the number one thing that a small tiny business has over a big business that needs to make more profit that needs to be you know publicly traded in hit numbers I think every small business should I watching

### [27:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uv0ZHDBYsc&t=1674s) “If you had to transfer to another premier league team, who would it be and why?”

Patrick Vieira nor is pressed invincible theory and they just create so much history that I think it was for that Club try everything to bring the history bank and also make the fans proud because I know you guys suffer at the moment with Arsenal you know it's an interesting topic I uh I become so fascinated so one of my one of the things in America that I'm spending a lot of time making jokes about on social media is if you live in New York City and you have a Steph Curry Jersey on that I think you're a piece of [ __ ] right so and to me it's I think you're a piece of [ __ ] not because you're a bad person but because I think it's a very interesting psyche of when you pick a team either based on the history or the current winning status or when you pick an underdog I find it I'm interested I don't understand why do I hate Kobe Bryant until the last year of his career when he's a little more washed up then I root for him why in every situation on any match of any sort something I don't even understand if I randomly end up looking this actually happened one day I'm clicking through my son's getting into sports so I'm trying to get him into everything I don't want to impose my opinions on him I want him to taste things and there's a cricket match I can tell you one thing about Americans you don't think they understand proper football we really don't understand cricket right yeah I'm like what the [ __ ] anyway look hitting it backward I'm like is anyway it's on I literally Google while the match is on to figure out which team is the favorite and then I spend the next ten minutes desperately reading for the underdog and I'm very interested in when I started announcing when we open this office that I wanted to pick a team I'm fascinated that like 99% of people are fans of the same four to five teams right we all know who they are in the same way in the u. s. whether it's the Lakers or you know or baseball the Yankees the psyche of people that want to jump on bandwagons versus the psyche of the people that want to pick something and pick an Under as in Iraq the biggest reason I'm not a hundred percent locked into the Spurs is my only criteria for picking my team was that they couldn't have won the championship in the last 40 years the problem with the Spurs is they haven't but they're very [ __ ] bougie you know and like I'm very confused by it doesn't map to my Jets and Knicks fandom as well as I'd like it to so I'm still trying to figure my [ __ ] out but yeah I just basically think that all of you that jump on good teams when you live in a town that has a team that you're actually a loser yeah no championship in 40 years all right yes and before you for the question is you've been on this interesting journey for a young man 29 years old was there a tipping point where you took control of your life based on the interview we've been doing I'm curious are you coming from the perspective of the adversity he faced when he was a youngster like add a layer to that question so I'm curious where you're going or maybe the investments you know not every young man is pouring his money into investment properties versus a Lamborghini well the first time I started to realize that had to do something with the money went to London when I start a bit already because it was to mention like I have my friends and anybody in Germany and then I'm in Vegas and my agent calls me is in a dead heat I have an offer for you and I was well okay and he goes yeah but it's not in Germany it's like you have to leave the country Americans in there and I was like cool where is it and he goes it's already and how spike where do I live and he goes you could live in la niñas okay you know what aquinas containers person and i think the people in germany bit uptight so I think I care about my captain and the way I have myself I think it in small anyways to this sitting here so that you know what I'm hoping to do that and so I was in a hotel room and reading and I had nobody calling me like there was obviously my mom my dad they messaged me whatever I was put on the spot no car no bank account set up yet let nothing and I was thinking like well how old were you guys 24 okay I was like with all the people you know they don't even see me anymore Germany's Orana Brenneman in like I still have to live and I have to find it I don't know people I socialize it so she might because that's the most important always if I'm not happy I don't perform well and so then moved to London and I started to real quick I apologize yeah you say if I'm not happy I don't perform well I assume in the macro because earlier in the micro you said if my parents are fighting before the match I play better is that a macro micro thing or was that an evolution when you were younger that work for you but over time as you grew up it changed thing is Legos either parents by the parents fighting is one thing but I also didn't have Evo my socialite thing okay I said I was heavy so their social life is good yes I very from the hillside I got it then I was very select and it shows on the pinch but when they thought I can let the hang out as well so I got it okay that was the traffic the book yeah exactly their social life was killing it their parents are fighting [ __ ] dominate exactly one make sure um no but then I started to hang out with people who would seem a bit more boring to the type of friends I used to have but actually more interesting because he pulled me same as Danny listen we signed a great contract with reading four years that's actually big security and you have to start to either buy something alone because the city is one of the leading cities in the world you know state capital and whatever so the property market I think usually nine times out of ten the price will go up and like you know you have to just generate another income of four when you when you're done with playing football and I said to him okay never heard about that because the friends I used to have they just didn't they didn't write my own stuff like that so I said you know what I'm gonna I'm going to rent a place in West London and see get to know the area and then after here on the site where I wanna invest and I think that guy he helped me a lot and our always be grateful for that because looking now I almost paid all of the flats off and Sam I already generate income and the places are rented out so I'm happy that's a good place out there yes in the back okay I'll get you next

### [36:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uv0ZHDBYsc&t=2176s) “Do you think there will be a backlash with social media in terms of time spent on it, privacy, etc?”

yes yeah the question is will there be a pushback a lash against social you know time spent the privacy issues I think it's already happened right you really see companies coming out you know look at Apple is a company that's not winning in social right there's apps on top of their app platform but there they're not in it and so if you're Apple you're saying we build a default device on our phone that warns you of how much screen time there might be a way for us to use that as defense to play as an offense right I think the privacy thing is a really interesting one whether it spreads that our Trump or many other things that are going on I think we as human beings don't like to hold ourselves accountable and so I do think there'll be a backlash against social but I think it's gonna be more of us passing on responsibilities of things that we don't want to see in ourselves I think parents are very good at judging Millennials without realizing they're the ones who raise them and created the entitlement so I think the human condition speaks to I believe the people that tend to win the most in life are the ones that are most willing to be accountable and I believe that the masses do not want to be accountable and I do believe that the mainstream media has a lot of financial reasons to downplay the digital world because it's taking their money and I think that all these dynamics are playing out so I think there'll be a backlash now I think it'll be a blip on the screen I think that we are going towards you know when my friends are like oh I'm limiting my sons you know screen time I'm like you do know what world your son will live in 15 years right just want to make sure everybody knows we won't be going backwards this wait - voices mature and you're talking to your LexA like it's your friend you know way to AR and VR and all these things continue like the robots are gonna kill us in the end you know and so I don't you know to me it will be a month it'll be a micro blip three years six months but I think you know when the whole Facebook Cambridge analytical thing happened people were posting protests of Facebook on Instagram like it was just the most fun thing for me to watch the human can is like [ __ ] you Facebook on Instagram which it owns and so you know III think that uh I think we will but I don't think it means anything in the inevitable macro of Technology advancement technology always wins like because we value convenience over everything we are animals that value time subconsciously and we will give up everything including money and that's what we spend our money on by the way if you play it out so yeah cirebon yeah

### [39:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uv0ZHDBYsc&t=2375s) “What’s the difference between the German and American national team and who do you want to be the coach of the American national team?”

okay the questions is for everybody watching camera difference between the German and American national team and who do you want the next American coach to be of the American national team how would we do when you're on the German team in how old were you on the American team I played me I was 17 18 and then I started to play her it is a when I was 21 I give God so the biggest difference it is definitely the education in like tactically technically because if I look at this like years used the country is so much bigger than Germany right and I think the US has amazing athletes but they just don't know how to use you know their speed the power strength because outside we have better athletes than the Germans in general just like you can see you know like sprinters and whatever there's never a German guy winning but they focus so much on technically and tactical work they actually invest a lot of money in research as well because the youth cultures they then fly to Barcelona they go to Amsterdam we're all an amazing academies are and they learn from them whereas in the state's I think because it's not the number one sport of the country and then I'm really interested in in then they don't like to be bad in something which now since we didn't make the work up changed a lot I think that's one of the more investment one for American soccer now what about coach so I think with the interim Scott at the moment they've Saracen and he's doing an amazing job I have to say I mean we drew against France just a month before they won the World Cup right and he definitely changed the strategy of players scouting and recruitment and he focuses a lot more on the younger players than in the past you had a lot of politics going on for whatever reasons which I kind of bit slack off because I came out and said it but yeah there were players who already has her prior past their prime like Germany now you see because they won the World Cup four years ago people thought that some players and players still have to start every game and that was wrong and that happened with the states and it cost us to work happy so I just hope that the next manager will be someone who focuses in on early youth and makes decisions for poor base than that political base I think it's you know from somebody from a very outside point of view in the sport but who watches culture very carefully I think the most interesting thing about u. s. football in the long term is two core things one it's that just the popularity of the sport is real like you if you spend time in America fifteen years ago I never saw a single kid in America where a soccer jersey it never happened now you see as many kids you know six to twelve wearing football jerseys as you do see them wear baseball or outside a basket little football are still number one but baseball and hockey and proper football are now hovering around the same popularity number two the Latino population in the u. s. is so extreme and exploding that I think the last names will look more like Brazil or Mexico or things of that nature in 16 or 20 years but the resources are there it just it's not religion like LeBrons playing basketball not defense you know that's so I think that uh advance will be interesting to watch over the next 20 years all right one more question what are you accused of culture yes well recently featured game and a movie as you've got your new one system culture when it comes to the building of business in America in the UK will you align yourself with UK rappers as a source of learning the culture that cakes and sketch Jamie and my question is yes what new one says will you be looking for when you talk to those artists to teach you things about things yes so what my dear friend here who's known me for a long time knows I've always really loved hip-hop as my Instagram over the last two years has exploded in parallel Mike Boyd who's always been close to me was freed up to really do strategy for me and we took approach about 18 months ago to get very serious about the emerging hip-hop artists that we thought in a 5 to 7 year window could become the drakes or low means and what would that mean and get in the trenches of culture the question is am I thinking about that in a UK lens as well and it's kind of interesting because maybe you've noticed this and it's probably why not probably it's why we're sitting here right now I've taken the approach in the UK and we're opening up Singapore in February we're gonna open up Brazil it looks like now and 2019 as well it's interesting my ambition to get deeper into proper football having you know a son and daughter that I want to like have a team and go through it knowing that I'm gonna be your six or 10 times a year handy because I think authenticity matters because I've historically not gravitated to the artists that you just mentioned I've actually taken the macro thesis of what emerging hip-hop are you for me in a pulse of culture in the u. s. I think the culture of Premier League and proper football culture in the UK and Europe as a whole is the way I'm thinking about that I'm trying to spend time and listen and pay attention I spend an enormous amount of time looking in the u. s. maybe world star as a Instagram account but for the way I'm thinking about Europe and the UK in general you know it'll be four three that I'll spend more time looking at and so interestingly especially given that we're sitting here together the approach is not going to be emerging hip-hop artists in the UK unless just like everything in my life one artist catches my imagination at the right time you know this almost everything you love food sports whatever maybe it was one thing that then that you fell in love with the rack URIs about that got you deep into the rabbit hole so I wouldn't say never I allow for a lot of serendipity but I also am thoughtful and have a lot of strategy I think the culture of football here is one of the spending a lot of time on both selfishly because I want to suck myself into it get into it and because I think it is an incredible important currency of the culture Merryn why I show you when you have someone that you're gonna sneak it in by giving the influence or a hundred percent autonomy and eliminating our egos as brands and thinking that we know exactly what it stands for and what it means I think the what the biggest iOpener to me in corporate America and a brand world is the level of ideology and audacity and ego like the thought that like for all the normal people here coca-cola and Heineken and Adidas think that the brand means the same thing to all of you and that's just laughable everybody here when I say the word supreme or you know Kentucky Fried Chicken or thinking different things discussing awesome rad I don't know what that is that and so there's a there's an ideology that brand managers and CMOS in corporate America have about what their brand stands for if you're gonna do influencer marketing what you need to do is you need to buy sponsorship through influencers at a good deal they know their audience he if he decided you want to do that I any of you know your audience and so if your interpretation of this chocolate shake or sneaker or you know blow dryer is it needs to be funny and snarky that's exactly as a brand what you want you're giving him me somebody that's money so that you have something happened for your business Stella wants business the best thing for Stella to do is get out of the way they much like the small business question they're in charge of picking him you picked the influencer you've decided that influencer is somebody I want because she's so [ __ ] awesome I want to give her money so I sell [ __ ] why don't you micromanaging her and telling her like you better use the word great I've never used the word I've never done a sponsorship deal in my life and I big audiences there's a couple reasons it's not how I think about my brand and it's not what I do but even a case like the case listing that's a partnership right but when I signed my case was ill the most interesting part of the negotiation was the standard deal do you have a sneaker deal hey great so the standard deal is like [ __ ] you don't or anything else the I literally at the 11th hour walked from the case whiskey oh because I wanted to wear whatever like if I wanted to wear Air Force Ones which I like to wear quite a bit like I didn't want I needed the authenticity of me I didn't need the economics enough and I think that's the best influence or not the worst you know because we smell out [ __ ] we're very good at it you know you could trick us for a minute you know not for an hour and definitely not for a year and so I think that um I think Brandt brands need to check their egos and get out of the way much like I told that young man you're in control you can say no I don't want to work with you anymore right brands don't have to pick the influencer but once they pick it they need to get out of the way let the influencer or do their thing that's the reason you picked them in the first place thank you thanks everyone for being here let's clap it up you keep asking questions we'll keep answering awesome thank you guys

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