Yael Averbuch West has always had goals.

It’s with the same assuredness she once practiced her aim to be the best women’s soccer player in the world that she now looks you in the eye and shares her lofty ambition to make NJ/NY Gotham FC — the hometown team she helped transform from laughingstock to the champions of the National Women’s Soccer League — into the world standard in the sport.

“What we’re saying now, which it took a little bit of time to establish and I was actually embarrassed to say when we first came up with it, is that we want to be the global capital of women’s soccer,” Averbuch West said in a recent sitdown with The Post. “I don’t like doing little things. I don’t like doing local things. I really feel passionate about that. 

“The fact that our vision is so big has made me additionally excited about something I kind of reluctantly started and I do love.”