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Speaker 1: I was literally going to make this team where I

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Speaker 1: was going to die trying. These are the jaw dropping,

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Speaker 1: untold stories of players willing to risk everything for the

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Speaker 1: game they love. I'm your host, Hannah Wadingen. I've spent

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Speaker 1: the last two years immersing myself in the role of

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Speaker 1: football club owner Rebecca Welton in the series Ted Lasser,

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Speaker 1: and when she fell in love with the game, I

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Speaker 1: did too. Now in this seven part series, I want

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Speaker 1: to take you inside women's soccer. This is Hustle Rule,

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Speaker 1: an audio documentary based on the book Under the Lights

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Speaker 1: and in the Dark by Gwendolen oxen Um. From the

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Speaker 1: streets of Santos, Brazil, to a one room home in Lagos, Nigeria,

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Speaker 1: From an underground league in New York to a truck

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Speaker 1: smuggling Afghan refugees bumping along a road in rural Denmark,

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Speaker 1: will take you around the world. This isn't about money

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Speaker 1: or fame, but it is about dreams, about wanting to

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Speaker 1: be the best, the best in your building, your block,

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Speaker 1: I saw losses that I saw, Yours is that and

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Speaker 1: it's about quietening anyone who tells you you don't have

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Speaker 1: what it takes. The guys started talking about about her,

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Speaker 1: like what are you doing here? And she makes them

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Speaker 1: actually the crowd when nuts. There can be times when

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Speaker 1: it feels like the whole world has turned its back

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Speaker 1: on you. I had everything taken away from me, I

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Speaker 1: had my captaincy taken away from me, my ability to

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Speaker 1: earn income. Times when no one else believes in your dream.

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Speaker 1: But there's the beauty of chasing it anyway. Because if

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Speaker 1: someone told me, Nadia, I don't play football because of

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Speaker 1: this is I'll be like, shut up. I'll still keep going.

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Speaker 1: You know. I feel like I'm a little kid. Then

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Speaker 1: I wake up in the morning like dreaming about touching

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Speaker 1: a ball again. These are the stories of mothers and daughters,

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Speaker 1: of far flung adventures of heartbreak, endurance, and joy. Always

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Speaker 1: play this game. I will always play this game. This

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Speaker 1: series is about finding something you love and doing whatever

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Speaker 1: it takes to keep it. In the end, the hustle

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Speaker 1: you bring rules the outcome. Starting June, listen to Hustle

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Speaker 1: Rule on the I Heart Radio app, on Apple Podcasts

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. For Nobody