Urban Pitch Podcast - The Beautiful Game Of Life

Rich Cofinco is founder and owner of footwear brand ASIF in addition to being the lead designer. He found early success with the lifestyle category brand Creative Recreation which he co-founded in 2002. He joins us to discuss his early graffiti roots, choosing function over fashion, and why everything he creates is actually designed to help you survive the apocalypse.

Tadeo was born and raised in Brazil, played professional soccer around the world, and now trains celebrities and athletes. He created Cuerpaso, a soccer inspired workout that takes place at Santa Monica beach. We discussed the cultural differences between Brazil, Kenya, and the U.S. and who has the best butt in Hollywood.

Highdee Kuan is an L.A. based actress and artist who grew up in a small village in the Netherlands. She discusses the difficulties she encountered, her love of soccer, and her artistic and fashion influences culminating with creating her own clothing line called Dirty Old Dutchman.

Ryann Torrero is a professional goalkeeper who also works in the fashion industry as a model during the off season. While breaking the mold in order to successfully navigate between two very different worlds, Torrero discusses playing abroad, cultural differences, and her equal love of soccer and fashion.

Brian O'Sullivan is a professional singing comedian. He dropped by to discuss the ups and downs of making a living from musical comedy, dealing with hecklers and "bros, and how he handles the occasional college groupie. Oh, and some soccer talk too.

Patrick Aviles is responsible for supporter relations at the Los Angeles Football Club. Growing up in LA's San Fernando Valley, Aviles was into skateboarding, hip hop, street culture, and soccer. He met with us to discuss LAFC's latest exciting news, their growing rivalry with LA Galaxy, and how he hopes to inject some of his urban style and influences into the club's atmosphere.

Kristoffer Liicht is a professional street soccer player and founder of Copenhagen Panna House in Denmark. Liicht discusses traveling all around the world, Suell the Gypsy, getting robbed in Mexico, and the sometimes unglamorous side of being a pro street baller.

Yasmyn Andrade is a professional skimboarder, singer/songwriter, and entrepreneur who also plays soccer on a college scholarship. Originally from Brazil, Andrade discusses some of her favorite beaches, her music influences, lack of boys in her life, and how college girls can play pretty rough.

Yael Averbuch is a highly decorated midfielder for FC Kansas City, and has played for the U.S. at every level of the youth national teams in addition to having twenty six caps for the USWNT. Having recently finished the NWSL season with FC Kansas City, she dropped by to discuss her early beginnings, adapting to life in Los Angeles, her future plans, and some of the current happenings around the world of soccer.

Caitlyn Schrepfer, Umar Dalati, and Tom Folan are top ranked professional freestylers. They describe both the good and bad of being pro freestylers. They give us some inside dirt that happens behind the scenes as well as some of the more outlandish characters in the freestyle community.

Tamra Dae is a fitness model, actress, entrepreneur and creator of the brand and fitness movement: brickhausbody. She stopped by to discuss her latest projects, background in soccer, and give us her secret to building a large social media following.

Thiago Lusardi, current pro footvolley player and model, discusses living and working in Los Angeles and balancing modeling while training to revive his professional soccer career.

Jez Dior is an emerging "grunge rap" music artist based in Los Angeles and son of British musician, Steve Dior, associate of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls. He and his producer, Smiles, dropped by to discuss how he got started in his music career, his love of soccer, and the best hidden spots to party in LA.