5 words, first thing that comes to your mind:
Soccer: Passion
Dreams: Always in big
Family: The best
Future: Always uncertain, but always preparing for it
Work: Opputnuties for development and challenges

Giber Becerra was born in Hermosillo, Sonora; from a young age, his parents migrated to the other side of the border and he was raised in Arizona. Becerra aspired to be a professional soccer player, however, he did not reach the level he had desired for. He did not let this limit him and he still pursued the ultimate goal of being in a soccer environment.

At a young age, Becerra got the natural instinct of becoming a physical trainer. Becerra has worked with soccer teams in Mexico such as Club America, Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles and with Mexico’s national team alongside Miguel Herrera, better known as “El Piojo.” Now Becerra has left Tijuana, Mexico to work with his first team, Club America, in Mexico City, Mexico.

Working with these teams has taken hard work and dedication. When Becerra was younger, he would watch the news to wait for the sports segment. There he would watch the highlights and he would pay close attention to the exercises the soccer players were performing. Becerra would then go with his soccer friends and would apply these skills little by little on them during his own sessions.

In today’s society, we count with different online platforms where we can educate ourselves on how to acquire different skills or how to even pick up a new hobby. Even though Becerra did not count with the resources we have now, he still managed to use every resource he had to his availability and smartly used them to his own advantage. He even counted with the help of his father.

“I think that at the end of the day the person who wants to move forward is going to find the way of how to achieve it independently of the resources,” said Becerra.

“In life, we sometimes make excuses such as, I do not have the material, I do not have the information, or I do not have this. The one who wants to achieve things will be able to do it regardless of whether there is too little or too much material,” he continued.

The resources he used paid off when the doors of Club America opened on June 2, 2012, when Becerra was introduced to Herrera. At the time, Herrera asked him if he was interested in staying with the team to work.

“Well, like everything in life a series of circumstances took place where all the planets aligned,” said Becerra.

The club initiated a pilot program so they could get the opportunity to observe Becerra’s work. He spoke to the sports director at the time, Ricardo Pelaez, and Pelaez asked him a sequence of questions about being a physical trainer. He stayed with Club America and was offered a six-month contract which later on was extended.

Becerra works from day and night with the soccer players, and he mentioned that sometimes he spends more time with the team than with his own family. Despite that, he enjoys his job.

“I enjoy the part of cultivating, cultivating myself, and helping cultivate other people. It also serves as a supportive tool to help others take their life to another level in whichever phase they want to reach,” he said.

Being a physical trainer obligates him to find the best version of him; that involves him to keep learning, developing and training himself so that he can supply his work to others. In order for him to be mentally and physically prepared, he likes to clear his mind and get rid of any unnecessary distractions. Becerra keeps a gratitude journal and this helps him start his day with which he referred to as a “blank slate”. In terms of the physical aspect, Becerra has to lead by example and stay in form.

“The coherence of what you say, do, and think is important.”

Becerra is a man who likes to envision and think in big. He has created vision boards, and on one of them he had a clipping of Mexico’s national team’s soccer jersey. His vision turned into reality and he traveled to Brazil for the World Cup in 2014 as the team’s physical trainer.

He has worked with many players throughout the years and all of them have left a learning mark in his life. One aspect that distinguishes some players from others is the mentality that they carry. For instance, FC Porto’s defender, Miguel Layun, and Bayer 04 Leverkusen’s forward, Javier “El Chichairto” Hernandez are players who he considers have something extra, which is their mentality.

Now that Becerra has moved back to Mexico City, he hopes to keep challenging himself with new obstacles. The idea of having a new project fills him with enthusiasm and he hopes to keep dreaming and achieving big things.

If Becerra could return to time and tell the 15-year-old version of himself something it would be:

“Trust the process, to continue cultivating, developing, learning, to maintain his focus on what he wants and to think much bigger than what he thought before.”