Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where the Price
Speaker 1: of Eggs has us paint and potatoes for the Easter
Speaker 1: hunt this weekend. The prices are too damn high. It's Friday,
Speaker 1: April eighteenth, Happy Friday, Slices. On today's show, we'll be
Speaker 1: chatting with US women's national team legend and two time
Speaker 1: Olympic gold medalist Briana Scurry about the battle for the
Speaker 1: new number one keeper on the national team. Briana breaks
Speaker 1: down the player's head coach Emma Hayes has to choose
Speaker 1: from talks about what separates the greats from the goods,
Speaker 1: teaches me a thing or two about possession and shares
Speaker 1: the financial literacy lessons she's passing on to the next
Speaker 1: generation of footy phenoms. Plus, it's almost time to crown
Speaker 1: some champs on the mat. The PWHL draft is headed
Speaker 1: north of the border. And always remember, no matter where,
Speaker 1: no matter when, Shelley and Fraser Price will will pure
Speaker 1: ass in a race that's all coming up right after
Speaker 1: this Welcome Backslices. Here's what you need to know today
Speaker 1: in gymnastics News. On yesterday show, we got you ready
Speaker 1: for the National Collegiate Women's Championship semi finals with Trinity Thomas.
Speaker 1: But if you miss those last night, be sure you
Speaker 1: tune into the National Championship tomorrow four on the floor,
Speaker 1: as they call it, the final team competition, where the
Speaker 1: four top teams compete for the national title. You can
Speaker 1: catch the competition starting at four pm Eastern on ABC.
Speaker 1: And if you need a refresher on who to look
Speaker 1: out for and how to be a smarter viewer, go
Speaker 1: back and listen to that interview with Trinity. We'll link
Speaker 1: to it in our show notes. In NWSL news, Angel
Speaker 1: City FC has found its new head coach Bayern Munich.
Speaker 1: Alexander Strauss will depart Germany to join the undefeated LA
Speaker 1: side on June first. His hiring completes a search that
Speaker 1: began when the franchise fired previous coach Becky Tweed in December.
Speaker 1: Strauss's run with Byron has been stellar after getting the
Speaker 1: job there in twenty twenty two. His squads have won
Speaker 1: back to back frown Bundesliga titles and they're currently in good.
Speaker 2: Shape to earn a third.
Speaker 1: He'll take over an ACFC team sitting at fourth in
Speaker 1: the NWSL standings. Speaking of the NWSL, there's a whole
Speaker 1: lot of league action to look forward to tonight and tomorrow,
Speaker 1: with seven games in total. Tonight kicks off with the
Speaker 1: Chicago Stars at Utah Royals at nine thirty pm Eastern
Speaker 1: on NWSL Plus, then the Portland Thorns at Seattle Rain
Speaker 1: at ten pm Eastern on Prime Video, followed by a
Speaker 1: Top five battle between Gotham FC and Angel CITYFC. That's
Speaker 1: ten thirty Eastern back on NWSL Plus. Then on Saturday
Speaker 1: there are four more games starting at two pm. We'll
Speaker 1: link to the full NWSL schedule in our show notes
Speaker 1: more pro soccer. The Northern Super League's first game was
Speaker 1: storybook stuff you remember. Earlier this week, Canadian soccer legend
Speaker 1: Christine Sinclair was on the show gushing over her former
Speaker 1: NWSL opponent and Team Canada teammate Quinn about them joining
Speaker 1: the NFL and their potential to be the face of
Speaker 1: the league. Well, Quinn lived up to the hype, scoring
Speaker 1: the first goal in NFL history via a penalty kick
Speaker 1: in the twenty first minute on Wednesday night at BC Place.
Speaker 1: That score proved to be the difference as their Vancouver
Speaker 1: Rise FC side took a one nil victory over Calgary
Speaker 1: wild FC just feels right to have a Canadian legend
Speaker 1: go down in the record books with the first ever tally.
Speaker 1: The NFL continues its inaugural weekend tomorrow as AFC Toronto
Speaker 1: takes on Montreal Ross FC at four pm Eastern.
Speaker 2: You could stream that on ESPN Plus.
Speaker 1: In International Hockey News, Team USA cruised past Germany three
Speaker 1: not then yesterday to punch a ticket to the semifinals
Speaker 1: of the Women's World Championship. Kelly Panic, Lacey Eden, and
Speaker 1: Alex Carpenter each put one in the back of the
Speaker 1: net for the Stars and Stripes in the victory. Hillary
Speaker 1: Knight assisted on Carpenter's score, raising her World Championship record
Speaker 1: assist tally to fifty one. The semi finals are tomorrow.
Speaker 1: As of this recording, we don't yet know the game
Speaker 1: the US will be playing in, so we'll link to
Speaker 1: the full schedule in the show notes. That game will
Speaker 1: be on NHL Network. In Pro Hockey News, the PWHL
Speaker 1: Draft is headed to Ottawa. The league made the announcement
Speaker 1: earlier this week, bringing the festivities back to Canada, where
Speaker 1: the inaugur ol draft took place in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: The draft will be at the city soon to be
Speaker 1: opened hard Rock Hotel on June twenty fourth, and players
Speaker 1: have until May eighth to declare and become eligible for selection.
Speaker 1: You might remember us mentioning the PWHL's Gold Plan their
Speaker 1: effort to deter tanking.
Speaker 2: Here's a refresher. So the draft order has.
Speaker 1: Decided based on how many points a team earns after
Speaker 1: being mathematically eliminated from the postseason. So once a team
Speaker 1: gets bounced, they've got to keep trying and earning points
Speaker 1: if they want to snag the number one pick. This
Speaker 1: discourages squads from tanking toward the end of the season.
Speaker 1: Looking at you, MNBA in hoops, the WNBA Players Association
Speaker 1: and AFLAC have renewed their partnership and as a result,
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Speaker 1: The victor of the three Point contest at the Indiana
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Speaker 1: and the Skills Challenge winner will get fifty five thousand.
Speaker 1: That brings the total prize money to one hundred and
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Speaker 1: last season. These earnings now equal the hall that MNBA
Speaker 1: players bring in for the same events at their All
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Speaker 1: WNBPA president Neka Ogumakay said, the move is quote not
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Speaker 1: the WNBA draft and outfit changes. Shout out to Slice
Speaker 1: jen Ford for reminding me that Rakia Jackson was the
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Speaker 1: you remember during our draft reaction show, Aaron Foley and
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Speaker 1: Orange carpet interviews this year, So thank you Jen and
Speaker 1: Yes pagebackers and Rikia Jackson. We got to take a
Speaker 1: quick break when we come back. My conversation with US
Speaker 1: women's national team legend Brianna Scurry, and uh, one.
Speaker 2: Thing before we jump in.
Speaker 1: So early on in the interview with Brianna, I admit
Speaker 1: to a shortcoming. I admit that I just realized she
Speaker 1: only has one en in her name, not two, and
Speaker 1: I've been spelling it wrong all this time. But then
Speaker 1: I start patting myself on the back for at least
Speaker 1: saying her name right, if not spelling it right. You know,
Speaker 1: she's always called Brianna Scurry, and I know that's not right.
Speaker 1: But the problem is, guys, apparently the version I was
Speaker 1: using for most of the interview Brianna Scurry also is
Speaker 1: not right. So I said, right too, Brianna, at least
Speaker 1: I'm saying your name right, and like, I get points
Speaker 1: for that, and then proceed to say Brianna the whole
Speaker 1: damn interview. And you know what, I tried to at
Speaker 1: least come up with an excuse. It's like, oh, maybe
Speaker 1: it's like Chicago is coming out, but that's not it,
Speaker 1: I just lock it up. And the thing is, she
Speaker 1: doesn't even correct me, and I feel like it must
Speaker 1: be at this point, She's like, listen, I'm too tired
Speaker 1: of this like to even correct you anymore.
Speaker 2: I'm too tired to correct people anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you take false credit for getting
Speaker 1: it right like a chump and not even say anything.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess my point is stay humble, y'all, because the
Speaker 1: learning never stops even while you're midway through congratulating yourself.
Speaker 1: So sorry, Briana, I got it now, Bryanna scurry, I
Speaker 1: got it.
Speaker 2: I promise all right.
Speaker 1: That interview with Briana is next back in a second
Speaker 1: joining US now one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time.
Speaker 1: A two time Olympic gold medalist and World Cup champion,
Speaker 1: she played for the US women's national team from nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four to two thousand and eight, competing in four
Speaker 1: World Cups and three Olympics, including starting and playing in
Speaker 1: every minute of the team's five matches of their gold
Speaker 1: medal winning run at the ninety six Olympic Games and
Speaker 1: playing every minute of their triumphant ninety nine World Cup run.
Speaker 1: Her career total of one hundred and seventy three international
Speaker 1: appearances is the second most among female soccer goalkeepers and
Speaker 1: the fifteenth most of any American female player. She was
Speaker 1: a founding player for the Atlanta Beat of the WUSA,
Speaker 1: was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, and wrote a memoir, My Greatest Save. She's
Speaker 1: been a coach, gm owner, and analyst. And she appeared
Speaker 1: as herself an air Bud World. Pop It's Brianna Scurry, Hi, Brianna.
Speaker 3: Hello, how are you?
Speaker 4: That's that was one of the most fantastic intros I've
Speaker 4: heard in a long time.
Speaker 2: Great, I need to watch I need to watch Air
Speaker 2: Bud World.
Speaker 3: You totally need to watch.
Speaker 4: That's how the young is that The only way the
Speaker 4: little kids know about me is if they saw me
Speaker 4: the air Bud movie.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: I last saw you, No Big Deal at the Vice
Speaker 1: President's house in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: Oh, Yes, okay, just no, biggie.
Speaker 1: You were signing your name to the guestbook with your number,
Speaker 1: and other people like, oh, should I write my number?
Speaker 2: I'm like, only if you're Briana Scurry, Like, what do
Speaker 2: you mean? You're junior high number.
Speaker 1: No, I.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: I have to ask the most important question first, What
Speaker 1: happens more often your name is misspelled or mispronounced?
Speaker 4: Mispronounced almost every single time?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have to admit I've been misspelling it for
Speaker 1: most of the time. I thought there were two ends,
Speaker 1: but I've been saying it right.
Speaker 2: So I do get points for that.
Speaker 3: But you can take points for that.
Speaker 2: I take one end. Where have I been? At least
Speaker 2: I've been saying it right.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's it's a great time to have you
Speaker 1: on to talk about the US women's national team. They
Speaker 1: are currently looking for their next Briana Scurry. Not that
Speaker 1: that's easy to find, but they are looking, and after
Speaker 1: passing of the baton from you to Hope Solo to
Speaker 1: a Lissa they air the team is really on the
Speaker 1: hunt for a keeper and without a true number one,
Speaker 1: clear number one for the first time in a really
Speaker 1: long time. So I want to talk about some of
Speaker 1: the players in the mix and what Emma Hayes is
Speaker 1: looking for. But I want you to educate us a
Speaker 1: little first. I think the average soccer player is pretty
Speaker 1: adept at watching shot stopping. We can understand a great save,
Speaker 1: we can understand a mist save that probably.
Speaker 2: Should have been made. What else should we be watching
Speaker 2: for with these keepers to help us sort of understand
Speaker 2: their role in the larger style and strategy of a
Speaker 2: team and whether they're great or not.
Speaker 4: I think one of the nuances you need to watch
Speaker 4: for is something that most people don't even think about,
Speaker 4: and that's communication with their back line, in particular the
Speaker 4: central defenders. So Tmusa often plays with the four back
Speaker 4: and so the two central defenders are really vital to
Speaker 4: defending because if the goalkeeper is not communicating with them
Speaker 4: vocally and directly, and you know that they're understanding her,
Speaker 4: then weird stuff happens. I mean, the untrained eye may
Speaker 4: not be able to tell if it was a communication
Speaker 4: error that caused something, but I can. So what I
Speaker 4: would say is one of the most important things other
Speaker 4: than the shot stopping, obviously is important, is a communication
Speaker 4: because what ends up happening is if you have bad communication,
Speaker 4: you end up with way more shots, right, which is
Speaker 4: not good?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, fewer shots, fewer goals usually not always.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: There's a great story from ESPN's Jeff Kasoof, writing about
Speaker 1: the battle for this keeper position, and in it he
Speaker 1: says that Emma Hayes has said on many occasions she
Speaker 1: expects their keeper to be comfortable on the ball to
Speaker 1: help the Usman's national team possess in deeper spaces.
Speaker 2: Can you explain what that means?
Speaker 4: Yes, So, when you have possession of the ball in
Speaker 4: your defensive end or on a free kick such as
Speaker 4: a goalkick, Emma wants the goalkeeper to be able to
Speaker 4: be part of that possession triangle or that possession stance.
Speaker 4: Not just a goalkeeper that kicks the ball forward and
Speaker 4: out of the danger zone. She wants the goalkeeper to
Speaker 4: be positioned well so that she can get the ball
Speaker 4: at her feet and redistribute as well. So if you
Speaker 4: have the goalkeeper that can do that well, then you
Speaker 4: always have numbers up in the back.
Speaker 2: Got it.
Speaker 1: So on the ball means playing on the ball like
Speaker 1: a field player, yes, picking it up and kicking or not.
Speaker 4: Redistributing that position, yes, yes, to receive the ball and
Speaker 4: to get us get the team out of danger if
Speaker 4: there's pressure on one side or the other.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's certainly something we notice, is which teams
Speaker 1: are able to go back and forth to their keeper
Speaker 1: and really incorporate it to reset a play versus when
Speaker 1: it feels like it's the last resort. And there's certainly
Speaker 1: some very when you're younger in soccer, they're like, never
Speaker 1: kick it toward your own goal, and when you get
Speaker 1: older you have to actually use that to help set
Speaker 1: things up. Okay, So Jane Campbell is one of the
Speaker 1: only two players vuying for the job who has major
Speaker 1: tournament experience, but it's not much. She was an alternate
Speaker 1: a last year's Olympics. She plays for the Houston Dash,
Speaker 1: which is attempting to build an identity as a possession
Speaker 1: oriented team.
Speaker 2: How does that.
Speaker 1: Style fit with what you just told us with Hayes
Speaker 1: wanting a keeper who can be a part of that
Speaker 1: and be on the ball.
Speaker 4: Well, for Campbell, it's a great advantage. I mean, she's
Speaker 4: going to be working on that daily with her team
Speaker 4: and so she'll have a better understanding. Not only that,
Speaker 4: but she'll also have a lot more confidence in being
Speaker 4: able to command that presence that you need to have
Speaker 4: in the back as a as a goalkeeper who can
Speaker 4: use her feet incredibly well. I've always liked Jane Campbell.
Speaker 4: She's fantastic, But what I fear is the fact that
Speaker 4: she does have to make so many saves in a game.
Speaker 4: It is truly a mountain of saves that she has
Speaker 4: to make. I don't know if that's from a lack
Speaker 4: of quality from her club team, her defense, or if
Speaker 4: it's a lack of communication on her part to her backs.
Speaker 4: Like I said earlier, like she has a lot of
Speaker 4: emergency situations on her team, and that's usually not a
Speaker 4: good thing. And unfortunately the Dash, you know, they struggle
Speaker 4: a little bit throughout the seasons. But she has a
Speaker 4: great advantage on a team that won't strug, which is
Speaker 4: the national team, to be able to be comfortable on
Speaker 4: the ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so when it's a possession oriented team, they want
Speaker 1: to control and be tactical in their approach, but often
Speaker 1: push up toward the opposing team's goal. That's different in
Speaker 1: the sense of teams that maybe are trying to rely
Speaker 1: more on one or two players that are just really
Speaker 1: fast or really skilled, where then they're not worrying as much,
Speaker 1: or they're not maybe able to depend on their whole
Speaker 1: team to set things up.
Speaker 2: They have to take more chances.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the difference between a possion oriented team
Speaker 1: and another team.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is definitely the difference between the two.
Speaker 4: Also, in the course of a game, if you're a
Speaker 4: possession oriented team, you're letting the ball do the work
Speaker 4: as opposed to your individual players doing the work.
Speaker 3: And what you're also doing is.
Speaker 4: You're moving that opposing team, that opponent around the pitch
Speaker 4: at will. You're shifting them from one side to the other,
Speaker 4: which then opens up that potential for that fourward two
Speaker 4: streak through there somehow, you know, make a diving run
Speaker 4: or a slice run through the back. And so if
Speaker 4: you're a team that can say, you know, have a
Speaker 4: slower tempo and then spring the attack, which is what
Speaker 4: that's called, you you can do that more easily as
Speaker 4: a team that possesses the ball versus a team who
Speaker 4: has just a lot of raw talent and it's expecting
Speaker 4: there forwards to truly make make something happen. Over the
Speaker 4: course of a game, the possession orientation team will most
Speaker 4: likely win and do.
Speaker 1: Better right because they're tiring out the opponent who's running around,
Speaker 1: whereas their tactical and pinpointed passes are moving the ball
Speaker 1: up without them having to be the ones making those runs.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the other keepers in the mix.
Speaker 1: So besides Campbell, there's Utah's Mandy McGlenn, Manchester United's Fallin
Speaker 1: Tellus Joyce, North Carolina's Casey Murphy, and then Angel Cities
Speaker 1: Angelina Anderson. Murphy is the only other player besides Campbell
Speaker 1: with major tournament experience. She has the most twenty eight
Speaker 1: years old, She's got twenty caps. She was the backup
Speaker 1: keeper for last year's Olympics and the twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: World Cup, so most experienced, but she has not received
Speaker 1: a call up twenty twenty five. Do you think that
Speaker 1: is Emma giving others a chance or do you think
Speaker 1: the window has closed a bit on Murphy as being
Speaker 1: a viable contender for the spot.
Speaker 4: I have really thought about this because I also noticed
Speaker 4: that she hadn't gotten called up at all this year yet,
Speaker 4: and so part of me is wondering if Emma's seeing
Speaker 4: something in her form that she's not exactly loving, or
Speaker 4: she is, you know, just trying to give other people
Speaker 4: a chance. At this point, I would say that it
Speaker 4: might be she's not in favor with Emma and she's
Speaker 4: looking for someone who has a little bit more of
Speaker 4: maybe a presence in the back like Jane Campbell does
Speaker 4: with her feet, and so in that case, you know,
Speaker 4: Campbell might have catapulted over Murphy in the in the
Speaker 4: lineup because she was actually in front of her when
Speaker 4: Emma came in. Came in, Murphy was number two and
Speaker 4: Campbell was three or four. And now it seems like
Speaker 4: the reverse has happened, and I feel like maybe Emma
Speaker 4: just doesn't have the same feeling about Murphy as she
Speaker 4: does with Campbell.
Speaker 1: Now, the Courage are the most possession oriented team in
Speaker 1: the league, so you would think that Murphy would be
Speaker 1: best suited to the style Emma's looking for. Is there
Speaker 1: something about her game that you think just might not
Speaker 1: be a fit.
Speaker 4: Well, you you definitely want to do your number one thing,
Speaker 4: which innimbus case is possessed the ball. But if she
Speaker 4: sees a dramatic difference in between her shot stopping abilities
Speaker 4: versus another goalkeeper's shot stopping abilities and her ball her ballwork,
Speaker 4: it could be too big of a mountain too to overcome.
Speaker 4: She might be the best with the ball at her feet,
Speaker 4: but if her shot stopping is dramatically, you know, lower
Speaker 4: in quality than another goalkeeper. Then that's going to hinder
Speaker 4: her a little bit. But it's hard to say because Emma,
Speaker 4: you know, she keeps her keeps her car close to
Speaker 4: the vest, and you just don't know what she's what
Speaker 4: she's doing, and she doesn't always tell you, which is great,
Speaker 4: so we're left to try to figure out what would
Speaker 4: exactly her cards read. But she's doing a lot of
Speaker 4: different things and she has time. That's the nice thing
Speaker 4: also about it.
Speaker 2: She has time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with a particular time or in the international window
Speaker 1: with the Olympics and World Cup, it's a great time
Speaker 1: for her to be looking. Thank you, Alyssena or for
Speaker 1: timing this well. Mandy McGlenn had a thrilling goalkeeper assist
Speaker 1: on opening weekend that caught people's attention. We got very
Speaker 1: excited about how they were using her in that play.
Speaker 1: But Hayes has said she needs to work on reading
Speaker 1: the game in possession and knowing when to play short
Speaker 1: or go long. What have you seen from McGlynn.
Speaker 3: I've seen a lot of talent.
Speaker 4: I've seen a lot of potential and for me with
Speaker 4: the goalkeeping, a lot of it has to do with
Speaker 4: the potential of that player. Can that player grow their
Speaker 4: way into the position. Does a coach feel confident that
Speaker 4: they want to put the time in to her in
Speaker 4: order for her to come along, because when you come
Speaker 4: into an environment like the national team, it forges, you know,
Speaker 4: into a champion. You can't you can't help but have
Speaker 4: that be the case, and if you don't have the
Speaker 4: goods coming in, then it's going to be difficult. And
Speaker 4: I think Emma definitely sees some potential in her and
Speaker 4: we'll see, because it's sometimes the popcorn doesn't pop, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, And.
Speaker 3: You don't know that in the beginning.
Speaker 4: And so for me, the best you know, indicator of
Speaker 4: a high quality goalkeeper, you really can't tell until the
Speaker 4: actual tournament starts, when the heat is on, Yes, exactly
Speaker 4: and at its.
Speaker 1: Highest, Yeah, fallon tell us Joyce earning a lot of
Speaker 1: excitement and praise. But Hayes had the same feedback as
Speaker 1: she did about McGlenn knowing when to possess, not playing
Speaker 1: the ball too long too often, but also said that's
Speaker 1: sort of inevitable in a debut, you're kind of just
Speaker 1: wanting to get it the hell away from you.
Speaker 2: Was off exactly, a little nervous, You're like, get away,
Speaker 2: not over your house is on fire, tell us. Joyce
Speaker 2: a little bit of a late bloomer. She's twenty eight.
Speaker 1: She just got her first call up to camp last November,
Speaker 1: but she has made some spectacular plays. Her nickname is
Speaker 1: the octopus because of her marine biology background.
Speaker 2: She likes to do diving.
Speaker 1: But also after that double save we just saw from
Speaker 1: her last week, it has a double meeting.
Speaker 2: It looks like she's got eight arms and legs out there.
Speaker 2: What have you seen from her?
Speaker 4: You're absolutely right, she is the octopus out there. I've
Speaker 4: seen her make some saves that are absolutely outstanding in
Speaker 4: league play, and it is great that she's not getting
Speaker 4: her opportunity. I feel like maybe before Emma came in,
Speaker 4: there wasn't any really any real room for her to
Speaker 4: crack into that group, and now she's been able to
Speaker 4: do it because you know, Emma's trying a lot of
Speaker 4: different things now, so now is her chance to shine.
Speaker 4: So if she can come along really quickly with the
Speaker 4: ball at her feet and show that she's more comfortable,
Speaker 4: then I think she'll be able to stay.
Speaker 3: And the longer she gets to stay.
Speaker 4: The more potential she has to, you know, evolve and develop,
Speaker 4: and I feel like for the goalkeeping crew, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's a big shoes.
Speaker 3: To fill for any funny.
Speaker 4: I mean, the history of the national team goalkeepers is
Speaker 4: all hall of famers.
Speaker 3: So yeah, no big deal. That's the thing.
Speaker 4: Right, So what I would say to these young ones
Speaker 4: that Emma's talking about the ability to know when to
Speaker 4: play far and long and when to keep possession. It
Speaker 4: really comes down to confidence, it really does. And so
Speaker 4: if you can just even if your heart is like
Speaker 4: fluttering like crazy and you're like, you know, I want
Speaker 4: to kick it, get kick a wide or kick it far.
Speaker 3: Just fight, fight against that feeling.
Speaker 4: And just try to see if you can, if you
Speaker 4: can manage it, and then and try to do what
Speaker 4: coach says, because you know, if you can, you'll find
Speaker 4: yourself on the team.
Speaker 1: Well, I think confidence and communication and connection which will
Speaker 1: only come when they finally decide who it is and
Speaker 1: that person gets a lot of reps with their back line,
Speaker 1: with their defenders, with the folks that they need to
Speaker 1: have confidence in along with themselves. Right, because you can
Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence in yourself and then tee
Speaker 1: up the wrong players in spots that aren't good for
Speaker 1: them or that expose their weaknesses. Angela Anderson finally she
Speaker 1: got called up as a training camp player for the
Speaker 1: national team, you know. In interestingly, she kind of sat
Speaker 1: back in her rookie season in the NWSL with angel City,
Speaker 1: then got an opportunity to start, then got replaced again.
Speaker 2: Now she's back playing.
Speaker 1: So she's been in and out sort of like actually
Speaker 1: with Valentelli's Joyce, Right, Valentelli's Joyce might end up being
Speaker 1: the best one of the bunch, but was behind Mary
Speaker 1: ERPs for so long we just didn't quite know what
Speaker 1: you had. Maybe Angelina Anderson just needs a little more time.
Speaker 1: She's kind of like on the outskirts of this group
Speaker 1: because she's just a training camp player.
Speaker 2: But have you seen anything from her you like I do.
Speaker 4: I see that she's got great potential as well. I
Speaker 4: see that she understands the game, but I really, for me,
Speaker 4: there's a little bit of a psychological edge to her.
Speaker 4: So if she can come in and really make the
Speaker 4: most of the opportunity and grab it by the horns
Speaker 4: and really go for it, like tellus Joyce did her
Speaker 4: last game, I feel like.
Speaker 3: She's in the mix as well.
Speaker 4: I mean, because if you're continuing to get invited into
Speaker 4: the camp, and you can perform well at every session,
Speaker 4: which is hard to do.
Speaker 3: It's hard to go from peak to peak.
Speaker 4: But if you can do that as a young goalkeeper,
Speaker 4: then there's no telling how long your runway could be.
Speaker 4: And so, you know, I feel like all of these
Speaker 4: young keepers have a great advantage over say Campbell or
Speaker 4: Murphy because they're just coming in and they're unaware, and
Speaker 4: they're out there just doing their thing, and they're not
Speaker 4: worried about the past or what has come before them
Speaker 4: as much as maybe some of the older goalkeepers are.
Speaker 4: But Anderson's definitely got a lot of potential there. She
Speaker 4: can easily come along and do what Emma's asking her
Speaker 4: to do. I have full confidence in her because as
Speaker 4: a goalkeeper who is in and out, in the in
Speaker 4: and out, that's a psychological tell if you're able to
Speaker 4: handle that. So she's got the mentality, she just needs
Speaker 4: to show it in her inner game. When Emma's watching.
Speaker 2: I hear dog over there?
Speaker 1: Are they they want to be a part of the interviewer,
Speaker 1: tell us the name, tell us the kind.
Speaker 3: Her name is Mazie.
Speaker 4: She is a one year old Nova Scoti duck Tolling
Speaker 4: retriever sure which is able common breed.
Speaker 1: We all are very familiar with sure Nova Scotia duck Tolling. All.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's gorgeous. She's absolutely amazing, but she is a
Speaker 4: little temperamental. She doesn't like when mommy is in her
Speaker 4: office and she's not Misha.
Speaker 2: Alex, what do you think should we toss her? Or
Speaker 2: be okay?
Speaker 4: With a couple of footprints, you would love to toss
Speaker 4: the doggie.
Speaker 1: I got to the doggie red card, red card. Now
Speaker 1: that we have tossed the dog to do, as Alex
Speaker 1: put it, a dog zoe at denying an obvious goal
Speaker 1: scoring opportunity. That's what your dog was doing with this podcast.
Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned Emma keeping her cards close to
Speaker 1: the vest, and while that certainly means that those of
Speaker 1: us who are media have lots of questions about what's
Speaker 1: on her mind, do you have a sense of how
Speaker 1: much she actually communicates for thoughts and expectations to the players,
Speaker 1: specifically these potential keepers, or how much they also feel
Speaker 1: like they're sort of left to wonder.
Speaker 4: From what I know of Emma, I've known her for
Speaker 4: a long time, I'm actually thrilled that she got this job.
Speaker 4: So I was like hopping up and down when she
Speaker 4: came in because I knew her style and her her
Speaker 4: personality would really be a great advantage to the team.
Speaker 4: I feel like she's probably talking to them. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think she's a very vocal coach. She's communicative with
Speaker 4: her players, and she has been in the past and
Speaker 4: she is now. And I feel like she's letting them
Speaker 4: know where they stand, which as a player is all
Speaker 4: you really can ask for, right, I mean, if you
Speaker 4: if you understand what the coaches is expecting of you
Speaker 4: and is demanding of you, then you can you can
Speaker 4: deliver it. So I'm sure she's letting them know, especially
Speaker 4: the younger ones, because you know, it's a it's a
Speaker 4: deep it's a deep into the pool, getting tossed in
Speaker 4: the camp and at a time like this, and it's
Speaker 4: really really can be psychologically, you know, stressful. So I
Speaker 4: think having communication, she's she's good about that.
Speaker 1: And I think you can also tell players here's what
Speaker 1: I'm looking for, here's what I want, and also we
Speaker 1: are I'll understand that there's some bit of magic, there's
Speaker 1: the eye test, some subjective feeling about a player that
Speaker 1: might be willing and able to step up in those moments. So, yes,
Speaker 1: this is what I want, but it's not going to
Speaker 1: come down to do I had eight of those and
Speaker 1: she had seven, so clearly it's me right. But those
Speaker 1: lines of communication do, I think make the psychological side
Speaker 1: of it easier because you just do your best to
Speaker 1: meet the expectations of what they want and that's all
Speaker 1: you can do.
Speaker 2: Absolutely So, besides just.
Speaker 1: Now in this moment becoming our go to analyst on
Speaker 1: the battle for the number one keeper on the US
Speaker 1: coland national team, you also.
Speaker 2: Do other things.
Speaker 1: You're very busy with your own work, and you actually
Speaker 1: recently signed on as an ambassador for Gainbridge. Can you
Speaker 1: tell us a bit about this partnership and what you're
Speaker 1: going to do together.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I'm really excited about this partnership with Gamebridge, and
Speaker 4: in part because my journey through finance has been a
Speaker 4: very interesting one and this gives me the opportunity to
Speaker 4: talk about it more So. Gamebridge is trying to accomplish
Speaker 4: is they're trying to obviously fund more women's sports, not
Speaker 4: only soccer, but basketball, tennis, golf, all over the book,
Speaker 4: all over the globe for women's sports, and so I'm
Speaker 4: just feeling really really excited and very honored to be
Speaker 4: the soccer representation of the Ambassadorship because, you know, athletes,
Speaker 4: in particular female athletes, A their windows are shorter and
Speaker 4: B their income is less over time, and so understanding
Speaker 4: finances and getting an understanding and a feeling for for
Speaker 4: you know, finances is really important. It's something that I
Speaker 4: didn't necessarily understand when I was playing. So I feel
Speaker 4: like I'm one of a perfect example to help game
Speaker 4: Bridge spread the word throughout this country for female athletes
Speaker 4: to understand the importance of having financial aptitude, and game
Speaker 4: Bridges really helped me with that already.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going to host clinics, help with the opportunities
Speaker 1: for women and girls to play, and then empower women
Speaker 1: to reach their financial goals, which, to your point, is
Speaker 1: something that I think. It's it's funny because it's almost
Speaker 1: like men's sports when they have millions and millions, you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you need a financial advisor because you got to not
Speaker 1: you know, blow it all. At the same time, they
Speaker 1: have millions and millions of dollars, there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of room for error there, whereas on the women's side.
Speaker 1: We you know, when I was in the ownership side
Speaker 1: of the Red Stars, we were working really hard to
Speaker 1: try to set up these like financial literacy meetings, and
Speaker 1: we ran into some issues with who's the sponsor and
Speaker 1: if it's not our sponsor, we can't do it with
Speaker 1: the other banks. And it's like, Okay, we just want
Speaker 1: the players to get to have some conversations about this
Speaker 1: stuff and help them with this. But you know, financial
Speaker 1: literacy is particularly of interest to you, and you mentioned
Speaker 1: this because you had some real financial hardship after the
Speaker 1: concussion that ended your career. You retired suddenly without planning
Speaker 1: ahead for it. Because of the concussion in twenty ten,
Speaker 1: you had headaches and neck pain, insomnia, depression, memory loss.
Speaker 1: It really sidelined you from everything in life, not just soccer.
Speaker 1: You eventually had to get occipital nerve surgery and it
Speaker 1: was this very, very long journey for you that ultimately
Speaker 1: resulted in financial issues as well. Can you talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about that. I know it's something you've written
Speaker 1: about in your book and spoken about, but it does
Speaker 1: make you sort of really well qualified to speak to
Speaker 1: people about these unexpected moments and how they can affect
Speaker 1: more than just your dreams as an athlete.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 4: That My my financial journey is one for the books,
Speaker 4: if you will. And it's been up and down, you know,
Speaker 4: all over the place. And that particular time after that
Speaker 4: head injury, you know, the last thing I was thinking
Speaker 4: about at the time was my money and my finances.
Speaker 4: I was just thinking more about trying to get better
Speaker 4: and how I would do that. And so because I
Speaker 4: was declared temporarily totally disabled, I couldn't work. And so
Speaker 4: it got to a point where, because the funding was
Speaker 4: running low on on the on the checks I was
Speaker 4: getting from from the insurance company, I was really struggling
Speaker 4: because I really couldn't work.
Speaker 3: And so for me, the only thing of.
Speaker 4: Value that I had at the time were my medals,
Speaker 4: and so I made their really difficult and very very
Speaker 4: you know, hard to hard to fathom decision of pawning
Speaker 4: them because at the end of the day, I had
Speaker 4: bills to pay, and so I had to do it.
Speaker 4: And it pained me so much to do that, but
Speaker 4: I was actually, you know, I felt I had no
Speaker 4: other choice, and so I did that.
Speaker 3: But I did eventually.
Speaker 4: Get them back within a rather relatively short amount of time,
Speaker 4: and I have them today. But you know what, that
Speaker 4: that journey, that experience has really made me more focused
Speaker 4: on finances for myself and and and over time. How athletes,
Speaker 4: in particular female athletes, a lot of times the athlete
Speaker 4: doesn't think about tomorrow or after their career when they're
Speaker 4: in it. It's almost like it's a taboo thing to do.
Speaker 4: Like if I'm thinking about after my career, I'm gonna,
Speaker 4: you know, my presence somehow exactly thinks yourself. And I'm
Speaker 4: here to with Gamebridge to try to you know, the
Speaker 4: spell that myth that your your athletic window.
Speaker 3: Your game window is only.
Speaker 4: So big, so long, several years and if you're lucky,
Speaker 4: it's ten years, but your life after is orders of
Speaker 4: magnitude more So, let's be logical about that and bring
Speaker 4: that thinking into the present. And I think Gamebridge is
Speaker 4: going to really help me reach all these young ladies
Speaker 4: who are playing sports and help them understand that I.
Speaker 1: Want to ask you a personal question. You can answer
Speaker 1: with whatever detail or blow me off entirely. But I'm
Speaker 1: sort of fascinated by people's ingrained messaging around money. I
Speaker 1: think if you grow up and you have a family,
Speaker 1: whether you're rich or poor or somewhere in between, that
Speaker 1: always says, we always find a way. Your approach is that,
Speaker 1: And if you have a family that is very tight
Speaker 1: with money, or is always worried about losing it, or
Speaker 1: goes through these big ups and downs, you tend to
Speaker 1: have that approach even in times of abundance. Do you
Speaker 1: have that understanding of your relationship with finances from young
Speaker 1: through to now, because you've said it's gone up and down,
Speaker 1: do you tend to have the same attitude of all
Speaker 1: work out or oh my god, regardless of other things
Speaker 1: are good or bad.
Speaker 3: I love this question. It's so interesting.
Speaker 4: So I know from understanding psychology and sociology and economics
Speaker 4: and all of that that my belief systems around money
Speaker 4: came from my family and my parents, and so in
Speaker 4: my household when I was younger, money was burning a
Speaker 4: hole in your pocket basically, So the thought was, you know,
Speaker 4: once you had some money, you had to figure out
Speaker 4: how to spend it. There wasn't a lot of conversation
Speaker 4: around how to save it. And so over time I
Speaker 4: adopted a similar mentality because that's what I was taught,
Speaker 4: and it wasn't until you know, in my early adulthood
Speaker 4: that I realized that I needed to try to do
Speaker 4: the opposite of burning it all and letting it burn
Speaker 4: a hole in my in my pocket and try to
Speaker 4: save some And so, yes, I definitely feel like you
Speaker 4: understand what you're taught from an early time in your life,
Speaker 4: and what I think what people need to do with
Speaker 4: those belief systems that no longer suit them, especially around finances,
Speaker 4: is they have to leave them there and get rid
Speaker 4: of them and make new ones. And so it's always
Speaker 4: a better thing to understand your belief systems and examine
Speaker 4: them to see if they still suit you or not.
Speaker 4: And so for me now, saving is very important obviously
Speaker 4: making connections and delivering great value to people, so that
Speaker 4: I know the dollars I earn are have been earned
Speaker 4: by me and that I am worthy of them, and
Speaker 4: that I am also as an African American woman, I'm
Speaker 4: worthy of having wealth. And it took me a long
Speaker 4: time to understand that and to even believe that, because
Speaker 4: in society there's not a whole lot of examples of that.
Speaker 4: And I want to try to try to be one
Speaker 4: as much as I can and go forth and try
Speaker 4: to explain to young ladies that your money is your
Speaker 4: responsibility and in order to wield that power, you have
Speaker 4: to understand understand the power, and so hopefully I'll help
Speaker 4: them help them realize that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've mentioned I have this book coming out June third,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of stuff in it about emotional
Speaker 1: DNA and the language and messaging that we inherit and
Speaker 1: then can decide with intention to pass on or that
Speaker 1: it no longer suits us.
Speaker 2: And it really is a powerful tool to be.
Speaker 1: Able to understand how that's leading your decision making subconsciously
Speaker 1: and then to decide that doesn't apply to me anymore.
Speaker 1: Or maybe that worked for my grandparents and it serves
Speaker 1: some role in the life that they were in.
Speaker 2: But today and right now, it is not a.
Speaker 1: Useful like line to keep repeating in my head about
Speaker 1: whatever it is, money or otherwise. So I love that
Speaker 1: you're understanding of all that stuff and you know all
Speaker 1: the psychology behind it, because it is so important, and
Speaker 1: especially as a female athlete, you cannot be like, this
Speaker 1: money's burning a hole in my pocket.
Speaker 2: Let me go ahead get rid of it, cuz exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you've also talked about concussion research and
Speaker 1: you've testified it front of Congress about it. Are there
Speaker 1: measures that you would like to see embraced by US
Speaker 1: soccer or the larger global soccer forces as immediately as possible.
Speaker 1: Do you think we're behind on figuring out.
Speaker 4: I do think we're behind, And what I would love
Speaker 4: to see on a global scale in soccer is more
Speaker 4: research dollars being poured into testing and figuring out the
Speaker 4: statistics for women, in particular women women footballers. Most of
Speaker 4: the research and most of the information that we have
Speaker 4: the body of work is essentially around men, and even
Speaker 4: more narrow is around NFL football players and how they
Speaker 4: you know, how they evolved in how their brains have
Speaker 4: changed over the course of having a bunch of hits.
Speaker 4: But in soccer, people say it's non contact, but I
Speaker 4: beg to differ. You know, there's a lot of collisions
Speaker 4: that happen, and now the research is showing that, you know,
Speaker 4: many many concussions happen, you know, but potentially by the
Speaker 4: by the dozens, if not by the hundreds.
Speaker 2: And everything else.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and just like you know, going into a tackle
Speaker 4: hard and maybe your neck moves a little bit fast,
Speaker 4: or somebody just barely nicks you and you're not ready,
Speaker 4: and you're changing direction. Your brain is sloshing around in
Speaker 4: your skull all the time, and so it becomes impaired
Speaker 4: over time.
Speaker 3: It's that repetitiveness that's the issue.
Speaker 4: And if the soccer community can put more information and
Speaker 4: more research into how this affects female footballers over the
Speaker 4: course of the years, then it would be more safe
Speaker 4: in the future for not only men, but also for
Speaker 4: women as well.
Speaker 1: I'm glad Michelle Kang's donation is in part going to
Speaker 1: that kind of research. For newest and latest partnership with
Speaker 1: US Soccer will be about studying, you know, women athletes
Speaker 1: and the bodies of women. I mean, we know men's
Speaker 1: brains are smaller at science, so obviously they're going to
Speaker 1: interact differently with just so little reverse anchorman. Okay, got
Speaker 1: to let you go, but I have to ask you
Speaker 1: just last thing. What do you do for joy these days?
Speaker 1: What's your happy place or your happy activity?
Speaker 4: Well, one of the things I do for joy as
Speaker 4: of late in the last year is my little puppy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, amazing, she's amazing, she really is. I love her.
Speaker 4: She's dear to me. But also what I do for
Speaker 4: joy is I really continue to be physical. So I
Speaker 4: like to lift, I like to go for walks, you know,
Speaker 4: I like to do things like that. And then also
Speaker 4: i'm a mom. Now, I'm a bonus mom. I got
Speaker 4: two amazing step children, and trying on the mom's shoes
Speaker 4: is one of my favorite hobbies since it has They're
Speaker 4: twenty two and eighteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, you got them at a decent age, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: the damage is done, you take it exactly.
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to fine tune things. I'm just trying to,
Speaker 4: you know, polish and provide clarity where I can.
Speaker 2: How new is this with your partner wife?
Speaker 3: Yes? My wife? Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, you made it legal. Okay. How long have you
Speaker 2: been a bonus mom?
Speaker 4: I've been a bonus mom for going on seven years now,
Speaker 4: to be seven years in June, and so I'm.
Speaker 2: Still learning enough to have some authority.
Speaker 3: Absolutely to be more fun anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, now you got to be Now, you gotta
Speaker 1: be bad cops sometimes too. You don't exactly the one
Speaker 1: that takes them out, you know, for Candy.
Speaker 2: When Mom's gone.
Speaker 1: Well, Brian, it's so great to talk to you always,
Speaker 1: and I feel so much more informed about this keeper battle.
Speaker 1: I'm just really even more excited to watch all these
Speaker 1: different players try to make their run for it.
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but the octopus is leading the
Speaker 2: way for me.
Speaker 1: I just I like the idea of someone with a
Speaker 1: great nickname taken over for uncle, Uncle nayor.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for the time.
Speaker 4: We really appreciate it absolutely, thanks for having me appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much to Briana for joining us.
Speaker 1: We have to take another break when we come back
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Speaker 1: very important race, the one against the other parents at
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Speaker 1: just picture this. The race starts and almost immediately Shelley
Speaker 1: Anne is the only person still in the frame. The
Speaker 1: other parents are trailing so far behind, and then she
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Speaker 1: Zion's Parents' Day, she has a few more ws coming
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Speaker 1: she was competing at Parents' Day. There's video of the
Speaker 1: last time too, and on Instagram she wrote quote, they
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