San Diego FC head coach Mikey Varas emphasizes the importance of the upcoming regional derby against LA Galaxy, highlighting the game's significance for the community. Despite being new to MLS, Varas respects the Galaxy, who are winless this season but have experienced players from their championship squad. Varas notes that San Diego's growth as a unit has been evident since the start of the season, showing confidence in players like Anders Dreyer. He focuses on preparation and mindset as key elements for success in the derby.
It's a regional derby. You can see it means so much to the community. These are always special games; at the end of the day, they're champs. They're champs until somebody else wins a final.
At the end of the day, we've held true to our value of having a growth mindset. I see the group has grown a lot, and I see individual players have grown a lot.
Part of my job as a coach is to analyse what's happening in training, what's happening in games, how are guys making impacts? When are guys making impacts?
They're a very good team, so our job is to prepare ourselves mentally, physically, technically, tactically, to make sure that we're up to the challenge at hand.
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