Meet the Rowdies: Julian Valentin

Posted Mar 13, 2010 by Nick Murray

Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 05:00 PM

Julian Valentin

Age: 23
Hometown: Lancaster, Pa.
Position: Defender
Number: 4
Last Club: Los Angeles Galaxy

Favorite Food: “I like to cook, I cook five or six days out of the week. Cajun food, Jambalaya, spicy foods.”

Favorite Movie: “I have a few, ‘Dumb and Dumber’, ‘Commando’ with Schwarzenegger and ‘Home Alone’ too.”

First Soccer Memory: “I just remember playing in the back yard with my older brother. We used to go out in the backyard and we had a shed. I think I was, I don’t know, five years-old or six years-old, and we would chip balls against the shed and they would come back in and we would volley them through our clothesline, so we sort of made our own little goal with the clothesline and we would work on our volleys.”

Best Soccer Memory: “I’ve been very fortunate and blessed, I’ve had a lot of good memories in the game so far. I played in the Under-20 World Cup which was a great memory. Some of those games with the big crowds and some of the world-class players we played against. We beat Uruguay, I think it was 3-2 was the final, that was a pretty good memory for me in the knock-out round, and then winning the National Championship in college (with Wake Forest) was pretty big. They’re both very different, but I’ve had some good ones.”