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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're celebrating

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Speaker 1: our one hundredth show and reminiscing fondly about the good

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Speaker 1: old days when we were making episode number one. Uh

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Speaker 1: you know it was only a couple months ago, right,

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Speaker 1: Oh shit, Yeah, it was like mid July. No whatever.

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Speaker 1: We're so grateful for one hundred either way, and especially

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Speaker 1: for all of youse slices. It's Wednesday, December fourth, and

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Speaker 1: on today's show you'll hear from Angel City FC center

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Speaker 1: back Sarah Gordon, who sat down with us to talk

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Speaker 1: about being a true soccer mom, growing up fast when

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Speaker 1: she got pregnant with her son in college, and finding

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Speaker 1: herself during a big move to Los Angeles. Plus, we

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Speaker 1: got to kill a review from a certified slice and

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Speaker 1: a Good Game Good Game Fact you featuring some US

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Speaker 1: Women's national team powerhouses to celebrate our one hundredth episode.

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Speaker 1: It's all coming up right after this Welcome Back Slices.

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Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today. In NWSL news,

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Speaker 1: Jill Ellis has stepped down as the president of San

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Speaker 1: Diego WAVEFC. She's making a move over to FIFA as

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Speaker 1: its Chief Football Officer, a newly created position the job

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Speaker 1: is full time, and FIFA said in a statement that

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Speaker 1: quote the creation of the Chief Football Officer position underscores

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Speaker 1: FIFA's commitment to fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible global

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Speaker 1: football community, ensuring that football remains a sport for all

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Speaker 1: end quote. Ellis leaves the Wave under fire after former

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Speaker 1: Wave employee Brittany Alvarado accused the ex US women's national

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Speaker 1: Back in July, Ellis filed a defamation lawsuit against Alvarado

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Speaker 1: including Alvarado, sued the team and the NWSL alleging multiple

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Speaker 1: forms of discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination. Ellis

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Speaker 1: wavefc C co owner Lauren Leichman said the club is

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Speaker 1: now in the final phase of hiring a head coach.

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Speaker 1: No word on replacing Elis as president. Rugby News Rugby

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Speaker 1: Superstar alone Omar, fresh off a runner up finish on

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Speaker 1: The USA Eagles star will join the Bristol Bears rugby

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and finished as runner ups to Gloucester last year,

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Speaker 1: losing thirty six twenty four in the Championship final. Mar

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Speaker 1: talked to The Guardian about joining Bristol, saying quote, I

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Speaker 1: held in England in twenty twenty five. By the way,

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Speaker 1: if you didn't watch any of alonamar on Dancing with

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Speaker 1: the finale. So freakin' good. College hoops news new AP

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Speaker 1: rankings came out on Monday, with UCLA and Yukon holding

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Speaker 1: movement a little further down though, TCU is securing its

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Speaker 1: Challenge on ESPN and ESPN two. Tomorrow. At five pm Eastern,

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Speaker 1: the number fourteen Kentucky Wildcats take on the number sixteen

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Speaker 1: you've got number ten Notre Dame looking to bounce back

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Speaker 1: on ESPN, you've got number three South Carolina taken on

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Speaker 1: number eight Duke now Don Staley squad bounced back after

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Speaker 1: new bling. On Monday, the team celebrated last year's title

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Speaker 1: More college hoops news. Nike has named Paige Beckers as

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we chat with my fellow Chicago gal,

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Speaker 1: Sarah Gordon about life and work in sunny California. Stick

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Speaker 1: a twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three Iron Woman.

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Speaker 1: That means she played every minute of those seasons. Ahead

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Speaker 1: of this year, she was named vice captain of Angel

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Speaker 1: her one hundredth NWSL regular season appearance, and here's where

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Speaker 1: her bio gets hijacked by friend and teammate Merrett Matthias. Quote.

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Speaker 1: Sarah is a walking goddess in every essence of the word.

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Speaker 1: She is a matcha making queen and a lover of

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Speaker 1: a farmer's market. She will guide you through a meditation

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Speaker 1: practice whenever Aston is committed to her grounding practices. She

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Speaker 1: is my favorite locker buddy who will forever ask for

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Speaker 1: face lotion. She has a fearsome, loving bomb to her

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Speaker 1: two boys, Kayden and Micah. I don't know how she

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Speaker 1: does it, but she is truly something special on and

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Speaker 1: that was a lovely intro. Nice right, matcha making queen.

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Speaker 1: Let's get you. Let's get you some milk and get

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Speaker 1: your cooking for us. That sounds delightful. It's macho hard

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Speaker 2: You just next it with you nolk, so you it's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the first season I was there, I tore

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Speaker 2: my first season back twenty twenty three, I was voted

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Speaker 2: But I mean, it's just been amazing to be embraced

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Speaker 2: It's all he's known because I obviously had him in

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Speaker 2: kind of giving him all the sport he's given me

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Speaker 1: You mentioned de Paul. You're a Chicago gow you grew

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Speaker 1: he's enjoying life in la Like did he get used

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Speaker 2: So he currently loves his life. I can confirm. It's

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Speaker 2: really funny. I actually just read an essay that he wrote.

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Speaker 1: It was like his journey.

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Speaker 2: The whole essay ended up being about my soccer career,

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Speaker 2: He has his own team now and he's just doing

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say I was probably as immature as

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Speaker 2: then it was like the total opposite.

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Speaker 1: first in college, how do you do that? Then with

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Speaker 1: as a professional athlete, and now with Angel City. How

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Speaker 1: do you think the NWSL does in supporting players who

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Speaker 1: are moms. It's come up a lot this topic lately,

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Speaker 1: particularly on ACFC, and I think it sounds like the

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Speaker 1: the time for Angel City not great, taking the points

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Speaker 1: to start having smart conversations about how hiring practices will

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Speaker 1: be affected if teams have to spend out of their

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Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like I'm probably a broken record

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Speaker 2: so I was on government aid to get my son

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Speaker 2: in daycare and to and honestly, like food stamps to

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Speaker 2: far we've come.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, with free.

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Speaker 2: Agency, you can negotiate things into your contract that you need.

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Speaker 2: That's actually I mean, obviously, losing three points was disastrous

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Speaker 2: into that that made that so wrong. You know, following

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Speaker 2: the rules is important, but the conversations around helping moms

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Speaker 2: continues to grow, and like I said before, like being

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Speaker 1: I'm no expert, but I feel like, can you can

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Speaker 1: Thanks for sitting down with us, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: and we could not be more grateful. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of all have been clamoring for some merch, and

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Speaker 1: I promise you were working on it. I want to

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Speaker 1: rock an I'm a slice tea as much as you do,

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Speaker 1: so that's something we can all look forward to in

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Speaker 1: the new year. Save a little of that Christmas money

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, I do have some leftover. I'm a

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Speaker 1: slice stickers that I made for the NWSL Championship. So

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Speaker 1: First twenty five I get with a name and address included,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we always love that you're listening, but

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Speaker 1: So here's our actual good gameplay of the day. We're

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Speaker 1: celebrating one hundred. What are you celebrating. What's a milestone

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Speaker 1: all about it. We want to share in your joy,

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Speaker 1: us a voicemail at eight seven two two oh four

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Speaker 1: fifty seventy. And you can always hit me up on

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Speaker 1: It's easy. In fact, it's so easy. Certified Slice Andrea

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Speaker 1: Vie sent in her own review, she wrote us quote

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Speaker 1: rating zero out of one hundred stars review. I'm a

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Speaker 1: I'm injured. End quote. First of all, great call, Andrea.

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Speaker 1: while you're injured, because that inactivity looks no different than

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Speaker 1: Oh and don't forget to join the Good Game with

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Speaker 1: group in today's show notes. Good game, Sarah Gordon, Good game,

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Speaker 1: No room for secret haters over here. Good Game with

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Speaker 1: Sarah Spain is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership

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Speaker 1: your podcasts. Production by Wonder Media Network. Our producers are

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Speaker 1: Alex Azzie and Misha Jones. Our executive producers are Christina Everett,

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Speaker 1: Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Our editors are

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