Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're celebrating
Speaker 1: our one hundredth show and reminiscing fondly about the good
Speaker 1: old days when we were making episode number one. Uh
Speaker 1: you know it was only a couple months ago, right,
Speaker 1: Oh shit, Yeah, it was like mid July. No whatever.
Speaker 1: We're so grateful for one hundred either way, and especially
Speaker 1: for all of youse slices. It's Wednesday, December fourth, and
Speaker 1: on today's show you'll hear from Angel City FC center
Speaker 1: back Sarah Gordon, who sat down with us to talk
Speaker 1: about being a true soccer mom, growing up fast when
Speaker 1: she got pregnant with her son in college, and finding
Speaker 1: herself during a big move to Los Angeles. Plus, we
Speaker 1: got to kill a review from a certified slice and
Speaker 1: a Good Game Good Game Fact you featuring some US
Speaker 1: Women's national team powerhouses to celebrate our one hundredth episode.
Speaker 1: It's all coming up right after this Welcome Back Slices.
Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today. In NWSL news,
Speaker 1: Jill Ellis has stepped down as the president of San
Speaker 1: Diego WAVEFC. She's making a move over to FIFA as
Speaker 1: its Chief Football Officer, a newly created position the job
Speaker 1: is full time, and FIFA said in a statement that
Speaker 1: quote the creation of the Chief Football Officer position underscores
Speaker 1: FIFA's commitment to fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible global
Speaker 1: football community, ensuring that football remains a sport for all
Speaker 1: end quote. Ellis leaves the Wave under fire after former
Speaker 1: Wave employee Brittany Alvarado accused the ex US women's national
Speaker 1: team coach of fostering an abusive environment at the club.
Speaker 1: Back in July, Ellis filed a defamation lawsuit against Alvarado
Speaker 1: for her claims, and three months later, five former Wave employees,
Speaker 1: including Alvarado, sued the team and the NWSL alleging multiple
Speaker 1: forms of discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination. Ellis
Speaker 1: is not named as a defendant in that suit. New
Speaker 1: wavefc C co owner Lauren Leichman said the club is
Speaker 1: now in the final phase of hiring a head coach.
Speaker 1: No word on replacing Elis as president. Rugby News Rugby
Speaker 1: Superstar alone Omar, fresh off a runner up finish on
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars and an Olympic bronze medal over
Speaker 1: at the summer with Team USA, is headed to England.
Speaker 1: The USA Eagles star will join the Bristol Bears rugby
Speaker 1: team on a three month deal. The Bears have competed
Speaker 1: in the Premiership Women's Rugby League since it started in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and finished as runner ups to Gloucester last year,
Speaker 1: losing thirty six twenty four in the Championship final. Mar
Speaker 1: talked to The Guardian about joining Bristol, saying quote, I
Speaker 1: want to put myself in the best position to hopefully
Speaker 1: be selected for the World Cup end quote. The US
Speaker 1: already qualified for the World Cup tournament, which will be
Speaker 1: held in England in twenty twenty five. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you didn't watch any of alonamar on Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Stars, I highly recommend googling her femininomenon dance at
Speaker 1: the finale. So freakin' good. College hoops news new AP
Speaker 1: rankings came out on Monday, with UCLA and Yukon holding
Speaker 1: study at number one and number two respectively. There was
Speaker 1: movement a little further down though, TCU is securing its
Speaker 1: first ever top ten spot, now being the number nine
Speaker 1: ranking after their big win over Notre Dame, who dropped
Speaker 1: to number seven with their back to back losses. Duke
Speaker 1: slid in at number eight. That's their best ranking in
Speaker 1: a decade. You can catch a couple of those squads
Speaker 1: and a handful of other games in the ACC SEC
Speaker 1: Challenge on ESPN and ESPN two. Tomorrow. At five pm Eastern,
Speaker 1: the number fourteen Kentucky Wildcats take on the number sixteen
Speaker 1: UNC on ESPN two. At seven pm Eastern on ESPN,
Speaker 1: you've got number ten Notre Dame looking to bounce back
Speaker 1: when they face number four Texas. Also at seven pm
Speaker 1: Eastern tomorrow, Number eighteen Ole Miss meets unranked NC State.
Speaker 1: Then at nine pm Eastern tomorrow on ESPN two, number
Speaker 1: five LSU meet the unranked Stanford Cardinal. Same time. Over
Speaker 1: on ESPN, you've got number three South Carolina taken on
Speaker 1: number eight Duke now Don Staley squad bounced back after
Speaker 1: their streak ending loss to UCLA with a huge blowout
Speaker 1: win against unranked Purdue on SaaS. They'll try to do
Speaker 1: the same against a tough Duke team tomorrow, and they
Speaker 1: maybe feel an extra swaggy after the arrival of some
Speaker 1: new bling. On Monday, the team celebrated last year's title
Speaker 1: win by receiving their National Championship and SEC title rings
Speaker 1: during a ceremony at their arena in front of fans.
Speaker 1: More college hoops news. Nike has named Paige Beckers as
Speaker 1: the first name, image and likeness athlete to design and
Speaker 1: launch a player edition sneaker, The Nike GT Hustle three,
Speaker 1: will debut on Saturday. The sneaker features the area codes
Speaker 1: for stores Connecticut and Becker's hometown in Minnesota, intersecting on
Speaker 1: the left tongue. BU be Great is printed on the
Speaker 1: left heel as a nod to the message she gets
Speaker 1: from her dad before every game, and Beckers is printed
Speaker 1: on the right heel. We got to take a quick break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we chat with my fellow Chicago gal,
Speaker 1: Sarah Gordon about life and work in sunny California. Stick
Speaker 1: around and now. She's a center back for Angel City
Speaker 1: of the NWSL. Previously played for the Chicago Red Stars.
Speaker 1: She's been named to the NWSL Best eleven twice. Was
Speaker 1: a twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three Iron Woman.
Speaker 1: That means she played every minute of those seasons. Ahead
Speaker 1: of this year, she was named vice captain of Angel
Speaker 1: City and often served as a captain with Ali Riley's
Speaker 1: sideline Dude injury. In April of this year, she made
Speaker 1: her one hundredth NWSL regular season appearance, and here's where
Speaker 1: her bio gets hijacked by friend and teammate Merrett Matthias. Quote.
Speaker 1: Sarah is a walking goddess in every essence of the word.
Speaker 1: She is a matcha making queen and a lover of
Speaker 1: a farmer's market. She will guide you through a meditation
Speaker 1: practice whenever Aston is committed to her grounding practices. She
Speaker 1: is my favorite locker buddy who will forever ask for
Speaker 1: face lotion. She has a fearsome, loving bomb to her
Speaker 1: two boys, Kayden and Micah. I don't know how she
Speaker 1: does it, but she is truly something special on and
Speaker 1: off the field. It's Sarah Gordon. Oh my gosh, hi wow,
Speaker 1: that was a lovely intro. Nice right, matcha making queen.
Speaker 1: Let's get you. Let's get you some milk and get
Speaker 1: your cooking for us. That sounds delightful. It's macho hard
Speaker 1: to make. What do you do?
Speaker 2: You just next it with you nolk, so you it's
Speaker 2: like grounded up and you mix it with water and
Speaker 2: then you like there's like a method to it, and
Speaker 2: then you add it to milk.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's delicious. I can't wait to try. As I mentioned,
Speaker 1: you were voted captain, you were voted the player's player
Speaker 1: on the team, you're a community fave. Like it feels
Speaker 1: like you really got embraced pretty quickly in LA. How
Speaker 1: was that transition for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the first season I was there, I tore
Speaker 2: my ACL so I was out for the whole season.
Speaker 2: So it was kind of easy to be in a way,
Speaker 2: to be sitting on the sidelines and just thinking about
Speaker 2: who I want to be when I come back and
Speaker 2: what I want to be to the team. And so
Speaker 2: my first season back twenty twenty three, I was voted
Speaker 2: the player's Player and all of those wonderful things, and
Speaker 2: it was obviously such an honor. And then this year
Speaker 2: that we just ended was much more difficult. We had
Speaker 2: a much more difficult season, and you know, being captain
Speaker 2: was hard, and I learned a lot.
Speaker 1: About myself in this leadership position.
Speaker 2: But I mean, it's just been amazing to be embraced
Speaker 2: by the girls in the community and everybody.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Cayden because he is the
Speaker 1: cutest kid, and also based on some video footage, he
Speaker 1: kind of looks like he's going to be a little
Speaker 1: future soccer star. Is he into it? He loves soccer.
Speaker 2: It's all he's known because I obviously had him in
Speaker 2: college and so he just got thrown into the soccer
Speaker 2: mix right away. It took him a few years. At
Speaker 2: first he didn't want to play, but now he loves
Speaker 2: it and he's getting really good, which makes me very
Speaker 2: proud to be on the sidelines cheering for him and
Speaker 2: kind of giving him all the sport he's given me
Speaker 2: over the years.
Speaker 1: He's eleven, twelve, ten, ten, Okay, yes, he's already got
Speaker 1: your legs, so like that's a start. Oh, my soccer greatness.
Speaker 2: His legs are so he's so long and skinny. He's
Speaker 2: a stick, so everyone thinks he's like thirteen, but no,
Speaker 2: he's only ten.
Speaker 1: You mentioned de Paul. You're a Chicago gow you grew
Speaker 1: up there, you went to college at DePaul, you played
Speaker 1: for the Red Stars, but you headed west with Caiden
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. And I want to know how
Speaker 1: he's enjoying life in la Like did he get used
Speaker 1: to the Chicago vibes and now is having to adjust.
Speaker 2: So he currently loves his life. I can confirm. It's
Speaker 2: really funny. I actually just read an essay that he wrote.
Speaker 2: We had like parent teacher conferences, and the teacher gave
Speaker 2: me the essay and.
Speaker 1: It was like his journey.
Speaker 2: The whole essay ended up being about my soccer career,
Speaker 2: but like his journey on the sideline of it, and
Speaker 2: in it he was like, Yeah, one day, my mom
Speaker 2: just told me we're leaving Chicago and moving to LA
Speaker 2: And I asked her why and she ignored me, and
Speaker 2: it said this in the essay, and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: am I a good mom? Am I not? But no,
Speaker 2: he loves he loves living in LA he loves the team.
Speaker 2: He has his own team now and he's just doing
Speaker 2: really well.
Speaker 1: Did you have to grow up pretty fast having him
Speaker 1: in college?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say I was probably as immature as
Speaker 2: immature gets up until I got pregnant at twenty, and
Speaker 2: then it was like the total opposite.
Speaker 1: I really had to grow up.
Speaker 2: I feel like I was kind of sheltered, and then
Speaker 2: after that it was I was just exposed to life
Speaker 2: and you know, had to make adult decision and be
Speaker 2: an adult and take care of my baby. And I mean,
Speaker 2: at the time it was scary. But now I'm like,
Speaker 2: just I don't know where I would be if you know,
Speaker 2: that wasn't my journey.
Speaker 1: So you figured it out, and you had to figure
Speaker 1: out motherhood in soccer at a couple different levels, right,
Speaker 1: first in college, how do you do that? Then with
Speaker 1: the Red Stars trying to make a name for yourself
Speaker 1: as a professional athlete, and now with Angel City. How
Speaker 1: do you think the NWSL does in supporting players who
Speaker 1: are moms. It's come up a lot this topic lately,
Speaker 1: particularly on ACFC, and I think it sounds like the
Speaker 1: conversations might actually be making things better. I know, at
Speaker 1: the time for Angel City not great, taking the points
Speaker 1: lost in the fines, but it sounds like we're going
Speaker 1: to start having smart conversations about how hiring practices will
Speaker 1: be affected if teams have to spend out of their
Speaker 1: own money for others. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like I'm probably a broken record
Speaker 2: talking about this, But in twenty sixteen when I was drafted,
Speaker 2: like there was no help for moms and I was
Speaker 2: making under ten thousand dollars for the whole season, and
Speaker 2: so I was on government aid to get my son
Speaker 2: in daycare and to and honestly, like food stamps to
Speaker 2: help pay for things, like it is so crazy how
Speaker 2: far we've come.
Speaker 1: Obviously, with free.
Speaker 2: Agency, you can negotiate things into your contract that you need.
Speaker 1: We got into.
Speaker 2: That's actually I mean, obviously, losing three points was disastrous
Speaker 2: and terrible, and there's a lot of things that go
Speaker 2: into that that made that so wrong. You know, following
Speaker 2: the rules is important, but the conversations around helping moms
Speaker 2: continues to grow, and like I said before, like being
Speaker 2: able to have my son travel with me and be
Speaker 2: at the games and you know, be at the Championship
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one and you know, fly to Louisville
Speaker 2: with me this year. It's just amazing. And it's affected
Speaker 2: him so much, like he loves to be there, like
Speaker 2: he is so bought in, and so you know, if
Speaker 2: that wasn't the case, I would just be kind of
Speaker 2: an absent mom at time. So to be able to
Speaker 2: bring him with on this journey is so important.
Speaker 1: And also to be able to play your best, Like
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be your best self with your team
Speaker 1: in at games if you know that you're sacrificing in
Speaker 1: a way that's not There's always sacrifice, right, You can't.
Speaker 1: You can't have it all. I hate to break it
Speaker 1: to everyone who're still trying to figure that out. You
Speaker 1: have to choose some things, but you can be supported
Speaker 1: in a way that allows you to choose yourself in
Speaker 1: your career and also be a great mom. And that
Speaker 1: didn't seem like it was really an option before or
Speaker 1: even in ways that just make you feel guilty. I know,
Speaker 1: you know, hearing from Sid LaRue talking about having a
Speaker 1: roommate with her kid in the room. Yeah, that's untenable.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I mean like at one point we weren't
Speaker 2: even allowed to bring our kids on trips at all,
Speaker 2: and then also did the roommate thing.
Speaker 1: That was fun. Shout out Stantin. Oh my gosh. I
Speaker 1: hope she rubbed off on him though, because she's the
Speaker 1: best and that would be the best auntie for a
Speaker 1: little kid. Yes, she definitely robbed off on him. He
Speaker 1: loves her forever.
Speaker 2: But I mean, yeah, I feel like with being a mom,
Speaker 2: like you said, you can't have it all, Like I'm
Speaker 2: always gonna feel guilty, like I'm always giving a little
Speaker 2: bit more to my career unless my son or vice
Speaker 2: versa in the moment. But there's a balance, and a
Speaker 2: lot of times that balance means my kid being with
Speaker 2: me when he can be.
Speaker 1: You are engaged. Now you're getting married next year. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: That was part of the move to LA was making
Speaker 1: sure you and your fiance had you know, a place
Speaker 1: to be together, pursue your different work. He has a
Speaker 1: son as well. How's the blended family? Micah is his name.
Speaker 1: So Mica and Cayden are they BFFs? Okay?
Speaker 2: So Micah is fifteen, So he just started way too
Speaker 2: cool for Cayden.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's too Sometimes I find myself being like.
Speaker 2: Am I cool enough for Mecca? Like I just need
Speaker 2: to make sure that I hope he doesn't ever hear this.
Speaker 2: That embarrassing, But I mean it's going amazing. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of bumps and like things that we're learning.
Speaker 1: It's obviously.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't imagine how difficult it's been for him.
Speaker 2: He lived in Tallahassee his whole life. He's moved to
Speaker 2: LA in the past year. He started high school. He
Speaker 2: has a million things going on. He's away from his
Speaker 2: mom and I'm away a lot, so it's like we're
Speaker 2: always figuring things out. But he's an incredible kid, and
Speaker 2: you know, we make it work.
Speaker 1: That's all we can do. I feel like, also, he's
Speaker 1: about to be at that age where all of his
Speaker 1: friends are like, dude, your step mom is hot, like
Speaker 1: you are about to your step mom is hot and
Speaker 1: cool and a professional athlete, and can she introduce us
Speaker 1: to this person? And can she take us to this party?
Speaker 1: And like you're about to go through it? Girl, Oh god,
Speaker 1: that sounds horrible. I'm just saying honest facts, like you.
Speaker 2: Want them to think I'm cool, Like I just want
Speaker 2: to be the cool step mom.
Speaker 1: Trust me, You're gonna be fine, Okay, Like you're to
Speaker 1: steal merit. You're objectively a goddess. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: enjoy the stories of what goes on with those sons
Speaker 1: and all their friends wanting let's stop buy your mom's house.
Speaker 1: What's she up to? Weird? Not touching that? Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just me being weird. You're not involved, you're not
Speaker 1: affected by that combo. How has the reinvention been for
Speaker 1: you in LA, Because based on some of our mutual
Speaker 1: friends and just what I see on instant does feel
Speaker 1: like it's not just a new team in a new place.
Speaker 1: But like a place for you to really find yourself
Speaker 1: and discover yourself at this point in your life.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I feel like I'm someone who's crazy
Speaker 2: about self discovery and like self reinvention and figuring out
Speaker 2: who am I really And a lot of that is
Speaker 2: about stripping away all the things that I thought I
Speaker 2: know about myself and figuring out who I am. And
Speaker 2: that's an ongoing process and LA is a perfect place
Speaker 2: for that because it's a very woo woo town.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. So there's lots of like yoga spots and
Speaker 1: meditation and crystal journeys with merrit Ooh yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so it really is.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a perfect place to find yourself, but
Speaker 2: it's also a place that you can get lost in
Speaker 2: all of the bullshit if you don't have a clear head,
Speaker 2: which I feel like. I don't want to say I
Speaker 2: started that way, but I started in a way where
Speaker 2: I thought I was one person, you know, tore my
Speaker 2: acl and then really went on this self discovery journey
Speaker 2: because I had the time to do it. But I
Speaker 2: mean it's home now. I'm here in Kansas City, freezing
Speaker 2: my butt off because it's thirty two degrees out and
Speaker 2: I can't anywhere else.
Speaker 1: We lost her Chicago. She's not one of us.
Speaker 2: And even though I'm still Chicago girl, I swear I.
Speaker 1: Lived in LA for six years, so I get it. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I love the I When I was younger, I
Speaker 1: didn't as much. But I think women, especially as we
Speaker 1: get older, a lot of us end up really liking
Speaker 1: the jew the kind of judu hippie, dippy vibes, eat it,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I think LA is a good place for that.
Speaker 1: What do you miss most about Chicago though? The community?
Speaker 2: You know, like having my my friends who had become
Speaker 2: my family there and it's just like it's an energy
Speaker 2: of Chicago that you they don't have that in La.
Speaker 2: You know, it's the community and the energy of the city,
Speaker 2: and it's not the same in La. Everything is spread out.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit harder to find like your click
Speaker 2: and your people there. But with that being said, there's
Speaker 2: more space to devote to finding yourself and you know
Speaker 2: what you love.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's something about nature that's very healing for me,
Speaker 1: just like being able to go hiking in Pacific Palisades
Speaker 1: and then walk the strand in Hermosa Manhattan, or go
Speaker 1: find a mountain somewhere, go to tow in a day.
Speaker 1: You know, like that is hard in the city. You
Speaker 1: do feel like the speed and how compact it is
Speaker 1: does create that community, but it also means that you
Speaker 1: always can have a distraction from yourself and when you
Speaker 1: have the space, it's almost like an offering to stop
Speaker 1: and like figure shit out. Wow, that was really beautiful.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: And also the hikes are so true because I would
Speaker 2: never consider myself a hiking girl. I had some things
Speaker 2: to say about hiking that I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1: Say right now. I'm like, that is not for me.
Speaker 2: And now I'm like, I love a morning hike with
Speaker 2: my dog, Like, who am I?
Speaker 1: That's the thing I missed the most about LA was
Speaker 1: three to four times a week, Like that was how
Speaker 1: I would start. And it's like clears your head. You
Speaker 1: can listen to music or a podcast or take a
Speaker 1: friend and talk whatever it is. But like you're moving
Speaker 1: and you're around like nature. So I love that for you.
Speaker 1: I love that you're becoming a hiking girl. NICKI would
Speaker 1: be so proud. Nicky Stanton is the queen of hikes.
Speaker 2: She's the queen of hikes and she's really proud of
Speaker 2: me for that and that I have a dog.
Speaker 1: She's like, who is this woman? Tell us about the dog.
Speaker 2: His name is seven and he's the love of my life.
Speaker 1: Okay, tell us more what kind of dog is. He's
Speaker 1: a Doberman.
Speaker 2: We just adopted him and he's an angel.
Speaker 1: Well, I look forward to the Instagram being taken over
Speaker 1: by it. Please and thank you it hasn Okay, good.
Speaker 1: Before we let you go, I want to talk ACFC
Speaker 1: really quick. Great ownership, great stadium, incredible fans, incredible vibes,
Speaker 1: incredible publicity, incredible energy. Like everything is great except for
Speaker 1: maybe not the results on the field. How do you
Speaker 1: fix that? What makes that allows that to change?
Speaker 2: The vision for this club is great, and really like
Speaker 2: implementing that in all avenues is going to be important.
Speaker 2: I feel like this last season the league improved, Like
Speaker 2: the rosters are incredible, the staffs are the staff members
Speaker 2: are incredible, and so you know, everything needs to be
Speaker 2: stepped up. It's obviously like an honor to play for
Speaker 2: a club that you know stands for more than just
Speaker 2: soccer and has incredible fans and you know you go
Speaker 2: to a game and they're almost always sold out, Like
Speaker 2: that is incredible, But putting performances together is what's most important, Like,
Speaker 2: it's what we're here to do. And if I'm not winning,
Speaker 2: you know, if I'm not succeeding, then I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm failing. And so I don't necessarily have all the answers.
Speaker 2: But I think that, you know, everyone who's who's going
Speaker 2: to be their next year is really focused and really
Speaker 2: committed to the growth of our team, and I'm excited
Speaker 2: to see like where that takes us.
Speaker 1: I'm no expert, but I feel like, can you can
Speaker 1: you go out and get a Barbara Banda or a Temwa.
Speaker 2: That feels like that worked out well for those teams
Speaker 2: this year that is going well.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're incredible players going well. Rachel Kundananji, Like,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's truly going to be the secret
Speaker 1: moving forward. You look at those players that are so
Speaker 1: incredibly talented, and they're playing in systems that aren't yet
Speaker 1: supported and invested in enough, and to watch them come
Speaker 1: here and thrive the way they have, Yeah, just imagine
Speaker 1: the possibilities for so many countries that are not investing
Speaker 1: in their women's sport if they start to see those
Speaker 1: players and use them as examples of what could be exactly.
Speaker 1: We bring them to the NWSL and it truly becomes
Speaker 1: an even more incredible league than what we're already seeing
Speaker 1: across like multiple teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Well I want ACFC to succeed because the model is
Speaker 1: one that is making everybody else step up their game.
Speaker 1: And so as long as the play on the field does,
Speaker 1: that'll be sustainable and that pressure will be put on
Speaker 1: the rest of the league. And also just because I
Speaker 1: want to see you win.
Speaker 2: Thank you, I would also love to win.
Speaker 1: Thanks for sitting down with us, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Thanks again to Sarah for sitting down with us. We
Speaker 1: got to take another break when we come back. Our
Speaker 1: centennial celebration continues. Stay tuned Welcome back slices. In honor
Speaker 1: of our one hundredth episode, Let's do a little century
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Speaker 1: There are seven US women's national team members with at
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Speaker 1: top of one hundred and eighty four, Mia Ham with
Speaker 1: the one hundred and fifty eight car Lee Lloyd one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty four Christine Lilly netted one hundred and thirty goals,
Speaker 1: Alex Morgan put in one hundred and twenty three, Michelle
Speaker 1: Acres had one hundred and seven goals, and Tiffany Milbritt
Speaker 1: hit one hundred. On the dot. With Alex Morgan retired,
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