June 17, 2025 • 43 mins
On this episode of Hasta Abajo, we’re joined by rising soccer star, Diana Ordóñez, fresh off a transfer from the Houston Dash to Tigres in Mexico. Cami and Meli go de arriba hasta abajo con Diana talking about everything from her killer instincts on the field to her killer looks off it. Plus, Diana spills about her go-to song to get pumped up and the answer might surprise you…
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
What's up, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm Camilla Ravon and Amelis Orties and this is Asta lajo.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Baby. We are here with a very exciting guest today, Mali.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, we are with footballllista Leanna Ordonez. She plays for
the Mexican women's national team. Jan Dada, thank you so
much for joining us and give I just want to
give some background information Ondiana before we get more into it.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Over some cafecito. Danna played for the University.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Of Virginia and at her time there, she scored forty
five career goals in a queen in sixty two games.
Go up, I know, which is the third most in
Virginia history. So major props for such a top collegiate career.
She was number thirty overall pick in the twenty twenty
three draft for a see courage, where she made seventeen
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starts and nineteen appearances in her rookie season alone, and
she finished fourth in the nWo Cell by scoring eleven
goals in that season alone. So snaps because we got
straight up baller, uh. And then, like Famila said, she
joined the Mexican national team, although she spent some time
with the US women's youth national team system, which we'll
(01:25):
we'll get into that for sure. She debuted for three
in April of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So here we have it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Dianna Ordonez, bien Venila, welcome to Astajo podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Thank you so much. That's quite the introduction. I appreciate
it to be here.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Intros Let's And honestly, you have like a very iconic
name like Diana Rosario Torres.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Thank you say that a few times fast.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
It's just like very like Hispanic and the best way,
like I love I love one my my Latina for
have like forty five names and I always use the
entire name.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So like, so how is it fit? Like give us
some how like what are you? Where are you? By
the way, how are you feeling?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I feel great right now. I'm in my parents' house.
We had a couple of days off, so I'm at
my parents' house in Dallas, Texas. So yeah, just relaxing
a little bit, taking some time. But no, I feel good.
I mean we're right in the middle of it right now,
so just normal mid season pains and that kind of thing.
But yeah, no, I'm great. I'm great.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I'm happy to be home for our listeners that, for example,
like are not super familiar with like the training aspect
of like what you guys go through day's day, can
you explain to us like from top, like you wake
up in the morning till you go to sleep, Like
a typical day for you during season?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, I would say, like a midweek day kind of
like not too close to a game before or after.
I am quite an early bird, I would say, so
if our arrival I wake up whenever two hours, but
for our arrival time, so whatever that time is, usually
it's around eight thirty. Uh, wake up at six thirty.
I gotta have my cafesito, So I get Yeah, I
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get up.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
That's your coffee? What's your coffee order?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I'm simple. I like a latte. I'm simple.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay, you make it at home like you do it yourself.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah. So actually usually in the morning I'll have a
macha and then my afternoon drink will be a coffee,
So like I kind of do both.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But I also I also mix and match sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, back just depends on what the vibe is when
I wake up. But yeah, so no, I get up,
I get up pretty early. Make sure I read my
Bible first. Thing in the morning. It's important to me
just kind of I like to take my morning like
very slow. I don't I'm not that kind of person
that can just roll out of bed and get going
Like that's just not me. I don't like that. So
I get up, I take my time, I read, I
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have breakfast, and then once it's time to head out,
I usually get there probably forty five minutes before the
actual arrival. I like to kind of be like quiet
in the locker room, get ready by myself, get some
treatment or like do some stretching activation, whatever I need
to do. We have meetings, we have training. Sometimes we
have more meetings, and we have lyft. It just kind
of depends on the day. So I would say I
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probably get out of there on average maybe like too
one or two o'clock every day. So that's not too
bad of a gig, right, I get home, Yeah, I
get home at two o'clock, and I kind of have
the rest of the day for me to do whatever
it is that I need. So, yeah, my days are
pretty chill. It's nice being in this job. It's a
lot of like it's like very physically demanding, but you
(04:32):
also do get I think people like don't realize how
much free time you actually do end up having.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Wait, what do you do when you get home at too?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Like are you watching? It just depends.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It depends on the day. Like sometimes I'll go for
coffee with my friends or go out and that kind
of like with them. A lot of times I just
sit on my couch I watch soccer, Like I watch
if there's a game on, it doesn't matter who's playing,
I'm watching it. It could be the U seventeen Conka
CAF qualifier, like I'm gonna watch it, like if there's
nothing on. I just love watching soccer so much, and
it's like easy for me to rest that way. Like midweek,
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like on Tuesdays, we have like young adults at church,
so like I'll do that. But yeah, I'm very I'm
very much a homebody. Like I don't do a whole lot.
I unfortunately don't even have like a ton of hobbies
like or anything, so I really just hang out. I
only have like one other teammate that lives in the
same place that I do, and she has a baby,
so that's fun. We'll go on walks and like I
get to hang out with her and play with play
(05:29):
with her son. So like that's really fun too. We
get to spend a lot of time together. We've gotten
really close. So yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
What does your like nutrition look like right now? How
are you feeling?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah? I I'm not too like rigid. I think I
think like generally like I just am like pretty healthy.
I grew up with Thank god, I grew up my
mom cooking meals every single night for dinner, eating family
even yes, exactly exactly what.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Your favorite home cook meal.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Ooh make me hungry. I'm hungry, I know honestly, like
just like a the stata like with fish, like and
the way that she prepares it and just like cold
and like, oh it's just so good. Yeah, I love Yeah,
I need to get some of that and the like
my one day left here.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
But so in terms of nutrition, so you're not like
on like, oh my gosh, I need to have this
proteinum take I need to I don't know carbop like
what what exactly is like do you have a routine
to what you're eating?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, I think like a couple of years ago I
started being more in tune with that because you know,
once you start getting older, you can't just like eat
whatever you want and keep it pushing girl. Yeah, I
started like counting the macros, the calories, all that for
like a couple of weeks, and then once I kind
of had an idea in my head of what that
looks like, I didn't have to track it anymore. So
now it's kind of like second nature just to know
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kind of how much I've had throughout the day, if I've
had enough, if I've not had enough the protein and
all that. So I keep it like kind of in
the back of my mind. I'm mindful, but I'm not
like crazy about it. I think, like I love food,
I love like joining with people, like going out to
get meals, like eating with my family. Like it's just
such a especially in our culture, is just so like
a thing for people to like connect around. So I
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don't like to be like, oh, I can't go here
because I can't eat that, Like I'm gonna find something,
you know. So, yeah, that's something for me that culturally
it's just such a big deal. So I don't want
to be like, oh, sorry, like I can't. I just
feel like it's a little bit rude at least.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Yeah, and also aside from it being rude, like you
never want to miss out on the experience is because.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Of food exactly totally, and it's also like team bonding.
But also I feel like, yeah, as Latinas or Latinos,
like we bond over food.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
That's that's only when I go back about Pantina, like yeah,
when I got.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Like, that's that's it. I mean, you guys have it
overload and.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
They love they we love the la basta and the bread.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, so do I I am complaining.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I think one of the most.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Impressive things about professional athletes, especially somebody like you who
plays it the level capacity and is as impressive as
somebody like you. I'm repeating what my LEAs said in
the beginning, but forty five career goals in sixty two games,
that is the third most in Virginia history. You have
to have like a how do you lock in? Like
(08:15):
I just want to know, like as a fitness girly
not a pro athlete myself, but I do still consider
myself an athlete, Like how do you like, what's your
tunnel vision?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Like, like how do you get in the zone? What's
the mindset?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I think? I think I'm just a competitor, like I
think some people are just wired that way. I also
just love soccer Like it sounds so cliche and so simple,
but for me, it's that simple. I love soccer. I
love it. I love it like it's I credit everything
you know in my life, all the good things have
happened to me to obviously my faith in God and
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him just carrying me through every situation, but also just
soccer has. Playing soccer has opened up so many doors
in my life, and it's giving me every opportunity that
I've had in even to obviously just be here with
you guys, and to meet amazing people and to just
have the experiences that I could have never dreamed of. Like,
I just love the game so much, Like I said,
I watch it like twenty four to seven, Like I
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think that's the thing that just keeps me going is
just my love for it. And obviously you know that
it's more than that, because sometimes loving it is not
going to be enough, because it's gonna eb and it's
gonna flow, and you're gonna have years that are hard,
and I've had them, and that's hard to keep that
kind of fire burning whenever it's not going your way.
But I think just being disciplined. I feel like I
was taught the like power of being disciplined at a
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young age. I'd give a lot of credit to my
parents for that, just kind of the way that they
raise me. But yeah, I just I just love I
love the game, like I'm obsessed.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
That's born this, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and own it.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I think when you mentioned going through also like challenging
tough times, you went through through almost two hundred days
without playing after a shoulder surgery.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
What was that injury? Sorry that for the shoulder? What
was it?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I tore my labor I dislocated my shoulder and tore
my labor on and it was actually the second time,
so I've had surgery on it two times.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I also dislocated my shoulder playing as well, and I
never want to go through that paint everything again.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
No, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
How did you deal with that, especially like after having
something that's so important to you being pulled away?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah, I think like the biggest blow of all of
it was that it was the second time. Like, I
think that to me was the most devastating, which is
like I already know what this is, Like I've been
through this. The first time I had surgery was like
my first surgery ever. This was at the end of
twenty twenty two, at the end of my rookie year,
and I didn't know the kind of effects that it
has on your body. And just like literally just from
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like waking up from anesthesia and like the next week
after like that, and how your body is and how
it feels, and I was not okay. I was not healthy.
I like couldn't eat, like I was super skinny. Like
all of that just took such a mental toll on
me as much as like a physical toll. And so
when I knew that I was gonna have to have
surgery again, like all of that came flooding back to
my mind, like I just could remember how it felt,
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and I was like, no, like this time, like I
got to take care of myself, Like I know I'm
going to be fine. I've been through it, Like I
just need to. As hard as it is to like
eat and just simple things like that that you kind
of like don't think about every day, Like it's so
much harder when you're not working out, when you're not training,
like you don't have an appetite. And then you just
had this like traumatic thing happened to your body. Like
it's so hard to just like take care of yourself
(11:27):
and to try and be healthy. But I give so
much credit to the people that helped me and get back.
My surgeon was incredible. He helped me, and he did
the best possible procedure that was like the least invasive
that would still get me the best results. I mean,
he was incredible, and just the team at the DASH
just I obviously had to rehab the whole off season,
so like that means that's their off season too, that
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the pet is coming in every day and seeing me
and getting me back. So I'm super grateful for them
making that sacrifice. But yeah, I think I was more
scared because I knew what it was like, but I
also was more prepared. So I think I've come back
from this surgery much much better than the last one.
I feel stronger, I feel more confident in it. So yeah,
(12:09):
hoping that that's the last one. We're done with those, but.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Please, yeah, we're over. I have two questions. First off,
was that your first major injury or surgery?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, I would say like major for sure, because I
hadn't had an injury that required surgery before that, so
I would say yes. But I did have an injury
a back to back like same injury in high school
and then college, which was a stress fracture in my
foot that was like impossible to diagnose. I don't know why.
My first the first time it happened, I was like sixteen,
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and I didn't play for like three months and nobody
could figure out what was wrong. And then the second
time it happened in college again kind of the same situation.
I knew that feeling and I knew what it was,
and so it was like three weeks and I was good.
So like that was hard trying to figure out like
what was actually wrong. But I think like in terms
of the actual physical and mental toll, like my shoulder
was like brutal for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
What do you like for listeners that are either going
through injury or have gone through injury? What was your
biggest takeaway? Because for instance, I've gone through major injuries,
whether it's knee or achilles tear, and I feel like
in that year of recovery or more over a year
of recovery, like I took.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Away, you know, patience, and like I took him away.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I even like started a business at the same time,
because like, what else was I going to do if
you already had like free time while you're playing, when
you're playing in your rehab and you also have a
lot of free time. So what is has been like
your biggest takeaway in those almost two hundred days of recovery.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, first, I'll acknowledge that, like my injury, although it
did end up taking six months to come back from,
like I'm super grateful as my shoulder and not a
knee ankle like that kind of thing. Those things are
a completely different beast. Uh And thank god I have
not had to encounter that type of situation. But I
think just like under the umbrella of injuries, I think
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it can be from a mental side, quite isolating because
the nature of it. For example, people are in off season,
they're going they're doing fun things, they're planning trips, they're
like doing all the off season things. And I'm in
Houston showing up every day rehabbing, working like I didn't
get You don't get a break, you know, because you're
just having like every day it's a grind, like every
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day matters, and it's every day you're getting closer to
like that return to play date, So I think it
can be quite isolating. And for me, something that I
did during that time was usually the players that are
rehaving they don't have to be in team meetings, they
don't have to like do that kind of thing, and
they can also even show up like while the girls
are outside training, like they don't have to be there
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on arrival time like everybody else. I think for me,
what I did was I was in every meeting. I
was asking questions like if I was going to be
available for the next game, even though I wasn't, Like
I showed up at the same time as all the
girls did because I wanted to see my teammates and
just like seeing them out on the field just created
more desire for me to want to get back out there,
and like more hunger to work hard and to do
my exercise than to do the things that you don't
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want to do anymore so that you can get back
out there. So I think, like from a mental perspective,
that was definitely it, and I think like from a
physical standpoint, like it can be so tedious, just like
the same thing every single day, and you feel like
you're not getting better and you feel like you're not
making any gains, But that's pt Like, that's Rehabit's just
such a long process and it's so tedious, and you
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just feel like you're doing the same thing over and over.
But like, I think, you know, you are the most
responsible for the way that you come back. Like, yes,
it is important to have good pets and good doctors
and good surgeons and all that, but at the end
of the day, like you're the one that has to
do the work. So I think like just taking that
ownership and from a physical standpoint, pushing yourself and listening
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to your body and making sure that you are showing
up every day so you can be back as soon
as possible is just as important.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Y'all are to take notes on that, yeah, because there's
so many I've spoken to so many people that have
gone through injury and they're like, well, they get very,
very down and depressed, especially when it's like, for example,
you're playing a very specific sport. If you're a person
that's an athlete that is just in fitness or movement,
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is a hobby for you, right, or a part of
your lifestyle, right, you might get like a shoulder injury
and be like Okay, well I have to just fully stop.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Like there's a lot of things.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
That you can do, especially as you rehab and you
get stronger, and if you focus on the things that
you can do, even if it's just rehab, or even
if it's just showing up early to hang out with
the girls before practice and like connect with your teammates
or be present in those meetings and things like that,
those are things that really even though like it's still
tough physically and it's still a devastating moment, can really
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help you mentally to stay connected to the hope that there.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Is on the other side because you come back from
an injury.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yes, right, yeah, Yenna, Like for let's just say as
Latinas and like you are so inspiring because there are
many say Latinos in general that you know from when
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they were little, they were like always push to play sports,
you know in Camila and I have actually done like
episodes about this and like trying to motivate and get
more girls or women into sports and whether it's playing,
whether it's supporting women's sports as well. For you, when
you were little, what was Lil Danna like, Like, was
she already in love with the game, like you said,
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but were your parents also very supportive, Like I want
girls or women to like walk away from this inspired
by your story.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yeah, no, that's a great question. I think I have
two older brothers, and I have.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Two older sisters.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Okay, I have a twi older brothers, So I feel
like my sisters were like not sporty. They didn't care
for it, like didn't like none of that. And then
my brothers they played soccer, and my dad played soccer.
But like I feel like I literally just like could
have gone one of two ways, and I was just
like a little tomboy. I wanted to run around with
my brothers. I was chasing them everywhere wherever they were
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going and playing like I wanted to be doing it
with them, and they only played soccer pretty much. So
I like, for ever since I can remember, that's just
what we did. Like and obviously it's so cultural. My
dad's from Ecuador and then my mom's Mexican, so like yeah,
like it's just ingrained in me, like that's my dad,
Like it was just our sport, Like it's just what
we did. So for me, like I played some other sports,
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but like nothing really stuck the way that soccer did.
And and yeah, I mean I was a little competitor.
Like when there's kids, well you're you know, playing like
pee wee, like four years old and people are like
picking grass and running around circles like no, like I'm
gonna put the ball in the net. Like I was
just like I knew what it was about, and like
I wanted to play. And I've always been like that.
And my brothers like they did not take it easy
on me. They were so annoyed by me that they
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like wanted me to not follow them around, so they
would like push me or like slight tackle and like
pick the ball at me, and like I just like
wouldn't go it. So like even though it was hard
when I was little, like I'm grateful for it. And
my parents were super supportive. Like my mom, so this
is like one of my favorite parts. I guess it's
her story, but it's part of my story. She's my mom.
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But like when she was young, she her mom didn't
let her play sports because like organized sports, because she
had five brothers and so like her mom was like
over the whole like sports thing. She's like I have
one little girl, Like she's gonna be a little girl.
She's not going to play sports.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And like that.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Exactly. Yeah, and that's like how the culture was like
back then, you know, like growing up in a like
small little town like south of LA, Like that's just
how it's going to be, you know. So, yeah, she
she was athletic, but she didn't know the rules. She
didn't know you know, that kind of thing, Like she
just played baseball with her brothers, like because that's all
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the only thing she was allowed to do. So for
me growing up, for her to have that experience and
allow me to explore that and freely, they didn't like
push it on me. They just knew that I loved it,
and they knew that I like being active and I
like playing sports, and so they let me. And that's
something I'm super grateful for because she could have easily,
you know, taken in another direction and be like, no,
my mom didn't let me, I'm not going to let you.
So I'm grateful that, you know, that's not how it
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worked out for me. But yeah, I think like what
you're saying in terms of like inspiring younger girls to
just be involved in that kind of thing, I think
a big part of it. If the natural like reaction
from a young girl is not like the direction that
I took, and it's more like, you know, they don't
like sports or they don't like that kind of thing,
that's totally fine. I think the important thing is like visibility.
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So like now you can turn on the TV and
you can watch a women's soccer game, a women's basketball game.
You can see women playing sports and doing so like
successfully in a way that they can actually like make
a fair wage where they can actually live their life
and not have to work three jobs just because they
want to play a sport. So I think like continuing
to grow in that area and just having the visibility
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out there is like half the battle, because if you
can see it, like how people say, if you can
see it, you can be it. So it's like I
think even if that's not something they're into, even if
they see it, it's like, oh, but that's a girl,
like a girl basketball player or a girl soccer player,
It's like they'll still be into it. It might not
be for them to like participate in, but like they
might be more open to like supporting it because they
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can actually see us, you know, And I don't think
I had that when I was younger.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
And something that I love about you too is that,
like you also show people that you can do both,
because I see your outfits and you are on your
stunting in the streets.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Okay, give us some fashion sicks. Oh my god, like
the brown.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Like crop jacket situation that you just posted with the pants.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I was like, dear God, that's incredible.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Are you recently getting into fashion or have you always
been a fashionista.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I think I'm like recently getting into fashion in a
way that I'm more like expressive and like proud of.
I think like I've always I think it's funny because
I've always been like different though, like since I was little,
like I would just wear weird stuff. I'm like, y'all, y'all, Ever,
now everyone's wearing jorts like I was wearing jorks. Y'all
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are bullying me for the jorts in the eighth grade.
Now everybody's had shorts down to their calves. So like,
I was always like a little bit different, And again
my mom was just like, I guess she's just gonna
wear whatever she wants, which was amazing, But like now
now I'm like kind of understanding it better. At least
fashion more like, yeah, I understand it better now, but
it's just it's just fun. It's a way for me
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to like express myself.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I'm not very Like you do have a hobby, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yes, yeah, that would be like my only hobby, I think.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
So, like do you do you pick out your fits?
Like or what do you do? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So, like, for instance, what I love so much even
about like the end of a sout even w NBA,
like y'all get to stadium with his looks like you
ready to play?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
But because I just go into the post house and
the like where.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Are you going?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Like what do you mean to work?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah? So do you plan those or how do you
get those fits together?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
So it's a little bit of both, Like sometimes I'll
do it myself, but I actually do work with a
stylist Closet six at Closet six on Instagram. Yeah, he's amazing.
I actually met him at the end of my first
year in Houston. He like saw me somewhere, swiped up
on a story like, oh, I like your outfit, And
(23:37):
then when I kind of saw what he was about,
I was like, you're just being nice because like your
outfits are like way cooler than this. But we ended
up meeting and like starting to work together. So the
pictures on my Instagram that are like very like shot
look runway look very like that, he does those. So
he styles and he takes the pictures. He's extremely talented.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Where's Ronnie.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
He's in New York. He's in New York right now.
So yeah, so yeah, he's been just a absolute pleasure
to work with, super professional, like really really made me
super comfortable. He had never worked with a female athlete
before me, so for him to kind of take that
on and like that whole experience and learning curve like,
he did it so gracefully and I'm just so grateful
(24:18):
to know him, to call him my friend, like to
work with him is amazing. So sometimes we do stuff remotely.
Sometimes when I do have time to go over there,
I'll go over there and we can shoot together. But yeah,
he's just so creative and he's very open. He doesn't
like force anything on me. It's not like, oh, because
my name's on it, I want it to look like this,
Like No, he wants me to look like d like
what I like and what I'm interested in and what
(24:39):
I'm willing to try with you know, kind of pushing
my limits a little bit, but in a way that
we're both comfortable with. So he's amazing, Like I can't get.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Money, he is serving okay literally serving.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Got you work with a stylist too?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I mean this is a huge talking point for our
listeners as well, because like, what, what do you love
so much about working with the style?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
From your perspective?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, my stillence is Lene Attelier. I don't know how
to pronounce that actually interesting myself.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I think for me it's all about like building confidence too,
and and having open conversation about like how you want
to express yourself. I think something that I loved with her,
which I'm sure that you also did with yourself this
was that we like sat down and we were like,
what are your pain points? Like what has your is
your experience with fashion? Like what are things that like
make you feel comfortable and don't make you feel comfortable?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Like how what?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
And then also she like challenges me to try pieces
sometimes that I might be like, oh that's not for me,
and then I put it on and I'm like oh way, yeah,
like and then.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
It just makes me feel really great. And I do
feel like.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
There is a difference in in in the way in
my confidence too, when I show up tournament and.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I know that I got a look on.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, yeah, like it just it makes me I.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Even subconsciously present myself in a different way.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Yeah for sure. Yeah, no, I couldn't agree more. Yeah,
it's amazing.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
And I think it's especially for like if we're busy,
like it's it's styling and thinking about what you're gonna
wear for these things like takes plenty.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
It takes time, it's its effort.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
So like I'm with my stylists at the top of
every weekend, honestly, we plan out the outfits that I'm
gonna wear for that week, and and that's the secret.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, that's what I need.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
We were just talking about that this morning too, because
I'm right now decided.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
It's like I need like forty five outfits times, like it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Could be like I have to have so many studio
fits soon for summer tournaments. So like I'm like, I
like it's more of a time thing for me to do.
I actually enjoy like piecing up outfits and like accessories
and stuff like that, but a lot of time goes
into that. So yeah, that was like our topic, our
discussion this morning. Okay, wait, let's jump back into soccer
(26:49):
real quick. My soccer girlies and I kind of similar,
but I haven't learned why you. You played for the
US youth national team and then you made a jump
to the Mexican.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Actually, so, I, you know, grew up.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I'm American born and raised in the United States of Florida,
but I played for Cooham. Yeah, so I want to
know what that was like for you in terms of
making that decision to you know, say, okay, I don't
want to play on the US potentially like women's national team.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Mexicano was a national team for me.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Yeah, I'll start by saying it was really hard. It
is really hard. I got my Mexican passport when I
was like sixteen because my dad was always Once he
like found out that we would be able to that
would even be a possibility, he was like, let's just
get everything in order so that if one day you
do decide you want to go over there, we won't
(27:43):
all of the like headache of it will be done.
You could just go. So that door was open very
early and for a very long time, which I'm super
grateful that they were so patient with me with that.
But I think because I grew up in the US,
obviously all I grew up seeing and knowing and then
getting into that system, into that youth national team system
(28:03):
was US soccer. Like that when I saw myself in
a World Cup, when I saw myself all of those
things like it was in a US soccer jersey. So
I think the hardest part for me was like having
to let that version of my dream kind of die
and like just realizing, like, if I make this decision,
that is no longer a possibility when I had grown
(28:24):
up thinking like that was the goal, you know. So
And another hard part of it was that I made
that decision very early in my career. I had just
gotten drafted. I was like three months into my professional
career and I decided to switch. So I think for me,
one of the biggest points was the possibility of playing
in a World Cup at twenty years old, Like we
were about to have qualifying and then we were going
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to go on and then obviously ended up not qualifying,
which was a huge disappointment, but a really important experience
that kind of shaped me and I know it'll make
me a better player in person. For what happened, and
it also sparked a lot of change for the federation,
which was definitely needed. You know, we want to go
to a World Cup, but we don't want to go
just to say we went. We want to go and
(29:07):
we want to compete, like we want a chance, you know,
a fighting chance, and I don't think the state of
the team at that time would have allowed us to
do that. So yeah, I think like a big part
of it, after the fact that I didn't realize was
going to have such an effect on my life, was
just the cultural aspect of it. Like I grew up
in the town I live in is called prosper Texas.
(29:29):
It's like was when we first moved here in the
middle of nowhere. Now it's like quite there's a lot
of people here now, but yeah, like there's not a
lot of Hispanic people. Like I wasn't speaking we don't
speak Spanish, I don't speak Panish to my parents, like
just my grandparents, and like I didn't I was not
like connected with my culture really in any way other
than like the dinners we eat and like talking to
(29:49):
my grandparents. So to kind of like make that change
and then going to the University of Virginia, like also
not a place where there's Hispanic people, and then living
in North Carolina, like I just was so out of touch.
And then finally when I made that switch, the way
that it changed my life, like it brought me so
much more like fulfillment and just like satisfaction that I
(30:11):
think then I think if I would have just like
gone to the World Cup, do you know what I mean?
Like there was so much more to it that I
didn't realize that was not about soccer at all. And
so to get to like actually reconnect and like travel
to Mexico, to have to play in Mexico, to like
be in front of those fans, to feel what it's
like for them, because it's so different, you guys, know,
especially the country that you're from, Like soccer in the
(30:33):
US is not what soccer is in these countries, like
it is what they live and breathe and die by.
So to get that experience and then to also just
like the food that we eat there and the conversations
that I have with my teammates, the music we listened to,
Like my whole life just like started changing and like
shifting more into you know how my my parents kind
of well not my dad's not Mexican but just like Hispanic,
(30:55):
but like how they grew up and now like I
have so much more for full conversations with like my
extended family who like they don't speak English or like
that kind of thing, because I have so much more
experience in immersed in the culture than like kind of
just seeing people every once in a while being like,
oh hey miss you, like whatever.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Now like so much more, my family is so much
more invested in my career because they feel represented by it,
and that like I could have never imagined that would
have been the case, but it's so it's so like
warming and fulfilling that like I could bring more people
with me, and like more people are invested and more
people feel like they're on this journey with me because
they feel represented by just me. So like that is
(31:39):
like more than any like World Cup could ever give me.
And so like I didn't know that going into it,
but now being on the other side, I'm like, oh,
I wouldn't have it any other way, Like I I
wish I did it, you know years ago.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You know you're you're like a true epitome or example
of like Niliakina. Yeah, you know, just like commie and
I are some times we feel that through our life experiences.
What is like your advice to those who also feel that,
like about embracing the culture of combe in, Like you're
(32:11):
also feeling that you know you're from here, but from
there you're kind of like the outsider in some ways,
then you you're still an insider at the same time.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like when you grow up in
places like I grew up, like the easy thing to
do is to just like fit in. And I think
I don't think it's about fitting in. I think it's
just about doing what's true to you. Like if I wish,
like I spoke more Spanish when I was younger, I wish,
you know, like I watched more Mexican soccer. I would like,
(32:39):
you know, like those kinds of things like, and I
think it's just so you don't realize until you're older,
Like actually, how cool and what a privilege it is
to have different like facets of culture that you can
like tap into. And so for me, like now it
is heavily more Mexican just because of the team, but
like even like my dad, like the Ecuadorian side like
I grew up like being a or fan and Equador
(33:00):
We're playing Mexico root for Ecuador, Like it was so funny.
And then now I'm like you guys think, Yeah, I
think like in terms of like advice, just like you said,
like just embracing it, Like I think it sounds really simple,
but it could be so hard, like when you're young,
especially when you're trying to figure out who you are
and what you identify with and all these different things.
Like just if that's what you if you love your
culture and like you want to embrace it, like just
(33:22):
do that and you're going to be better for it
and more I would say, more like well rounded in
a way of just like being able to connect with
different types of communities and people and and that kind
of thing. So yeah, it's been it's been a really
cool experience and one I definitely didn't think I was
going to get so much added value like that has
nothing to do with soccer, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
It's so fulfilling.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
I mean, I've I was born on Hintina and I
came to the US when I was like seven, but
and there's still like that type of like reconnection with
our culture that is so important and it just like
it's it's one of the most fulfilling things that like
we can do. So whenever I have the opportunity to
like encourage anybody to like go out there and like
do the thing and like visit their their country even
(34:05):
if they don't have any more family left there or
anything like that, Like, so I always tell them to.
So props to you, Like I'm sure that you're discovering
so many amazing things, and you know, eventually, maybe one
day if you're like.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
A little bored and you want to pop on a novel,
like there's.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
I gotta know, I gotta know before before we let
you go, because we're you have to wrap.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
But what did you like go to hype track?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
HiPE track? Like one song?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah? One?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Or yeah, Like.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
I feel like it just depends on the mood that Okay,
well I'll just let you in on a secret. I'll
do that. I'll give you one, but I'll let you
on a secret because I think it's actually so funny.
I love secrets. But you guys know the like very
famous Mexican song. Yes, yes, so you're saying, I like
(35:00):
it doesn't matter what track. Like Sometimes before games I'm
listening to worship music or I'm listening to like Drake
Like it just depends on the day. But like that song,
I have to hear it at least one time before
any game that I play in. And it doesn't matter
if it's Dash, it doesn't matter if it's Mexico. Like
no one. I actually don't think I've ever told. I
think I've told my mom this and that's it. So
I'm gonna get made fun of. I literally at least
(35:21):
one time, at least one time, I just have to,
like it just has to happen, and I just sit
there quietly and I just like, don't tell anybody about it,
and I just let it run its course. And then
I'm like, Okay, I got it.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
I love that to add to my playlist. Do you
ever do singers? It just like in your ear.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
It's just in my ear, and I'm just enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
It was so good.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Yeah, literally Mexican.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I just can't do, you know, alto like, I can't
do it. I'm actually embarrassing. I won't public maybe after
a few like Taky last Minus maybe maybe that, but
not now.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Literally before we recorded this, I pretty sure it was
like try not to scream too much.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh shoot, I just screamed Latin. Okay for anyhow, Danna.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
It was such a pleasure to get to know you.
We are so excited to see you like pop off
this season. We will be one thousand percent cheering for
you from the sidelines.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Thanks. And it's so great to meet you, guys. I
appreciate you having me on and it was a lot
of fun, so comfortable. I love it. It's great.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
Well, don't go anywhere anybody, because we still have to
do that. I got my foremos last segment, but we'll.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Be thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Welcome back everybody.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Now we call this segment Aga my Famosa where I
kick things off making kameni fams about the latest and
greatest REX about sports, and then you give me the
latest and greatest REX about music.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
And this week, or the last couple of weeks, I
have discovered an artist that she's been around for a minute.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Like she was in She performed at Coachella this year.
She is a little bit more like Indie. Her Ispanola.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Her name is Jude Line, Jude Line, and her voice
is just majestic and iconic. My favorite track from her
right now is called Mangata, and she has like it's
like Indie Edmy a little bit of trap, but I
would like to call it like a little bit more
alternative than like the mainstream.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Stuff that's happening right now. Her entire vibe, like, first
of all, she's so nice.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
She came to the studios to show us some of
her new tracks, which are all just like so impressive.
She works with a lot of French producers, and the
sound is very unique and that I love, especially because
like I feel like in the Latino space there's a
lot of like moving around, but I get gon so
when I hear a different sound, I'm always like pulled
(38:14):
in that direction.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
And I love kind of like a euphoric moment that
you can just kind of get lost in the.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Beat and and kind of like find a repetitive kind
of flow. I think that track is perfect for running.
But she has so many like really really dope vibi tracks.
I want to go see her perform at elsewhere here
in Brooklyn, and she her show, she had like this
this backup dancer who was kind of like a man slave,
(38:42):
and I love a man slave moment.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I'm sorry, I love a man slave moment. He was
just there like swooning over her.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
Also he was a little bit like crazy, I think,
but like it was just like it all hit at
the same time because it was like her look is
so like alternative, her sound is so alternative. And then
to this like man that she was like on his
back like and he was like carrying her or like
being her like servant.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
I was like, go off. So that's Jude Line.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
Add her to your playlist to listen to her and
then come back and thank me later, because I know
you are one of my favorite artists of the moment,
and I know that we just had a conversation with
Leannamelies and I feel like that is our AASA moment
for football, And I think that one of the most
fun MOSA things besides your beautiful and amazing personality you're
(39:33):
girls as an athlete and you're just impressive nature overall,
is that you are still continuing to play football for
fun obviously, but also people like they want to know,
like how you train, like what's your like.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
People will be like those apps. Though she's like it's genetic.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
I'm like, it's them, that's how she.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
No.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
So it's funny you say, like, oh, you play like
soccer stale. Well, guys, Honestly, over the past six months,
like I moved from New York to Miami, and I've
been feeling so guilty, like this miss in my heart
and my soul because I actually haven't been playing a
lot of soccer like I used to when I lived
in New York. And you know, I was in New
York and I got to play soccer, and I said.
(40:17):
One of the things I said is like, well, I'm
in New York. I'm going to hit up my crew
that I always go and play morning footy with, and
I'm going to get my hour sash, get my touches
on the ball. But guys like I also, and I'm
going to be super like open and like transparent with you.
I wasn't nervous, but I was a little fearful. And
we had a whole conversation about injuries and getting over injuries,
(40:37):
and like, I'm thirty five years old and like the
least thing I want to do right now in my
life is get injured and go through a whole rehab,
especially with work and I travel so much. So like
I was actually like a little word like God, please
don't get injured. And that's the worst thing you could
think about when you're going to go play a sport.
But I do want to give y'all a recommendation, like
a tip, like get over that fear, Like shit happens,
(41:01):
and if it happens, it happens, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
Like, but you're also doing everything that you that you
possibly can to make sure that it doesn't happen. Like
Many's strength train I do, Madie says recovery. She literally
has an ice plunge in her back.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
I do to a whole punch.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Okay, it's where your device. So she's like doing everything
that she possibly can. And that's why you're like, get
over it too, like there's only so much that you
can do exactly.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Race is kind of like, but isn't it crazy?
Speaker 2 (41:26):
And I still like go through that fear and that
like mental talk in my brain where I'm like, oh,
I'm a little scared, But then I'm just like whatever,
you're gonna have fun, go and have fun. So if
you guys want to try out, like whether it's a
new sport, what's getting back into the sport that you
love to play, whether it's doing an exercise, whether it's
going to zoomba, whether whatever it is, like go and
do it, book that class book.
Speaker 5 (41:48):
That ride with Kami, drop it low.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Yeah, just get over that fear because like, guys, I'm
so happy I did that this morning. I actually it
brings me back to like my childhood and my my
inner girl that I got to play. And as far
as the apps go, I'll give you those tips and
tricks in another episode.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Literally, Jene's like, I don't know what you what you guys?
What do you guys want me to do?
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Well, that's a wrap I think for this week's episode
of Thank you very very much to our special guest Vienna.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
What else comey?
Speaker 5 (42:23):
Yeah, don't forget to keep commenting on these episodes. Send
us message, just like let us know, like what you
want to see next, Like we we want to see
like y'all's feedback on the pod, Like we've been loving
recording these episodes for y'all and.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
We just can't wait to do more.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
All right, Well, we'll catch you on the next We'll
catch you next time.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
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What's up, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm Camilla Ravon and Amelis Orties and this is Asta lajo.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Baby. We are here with a very exciting guest today, Mali.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, we are with footballllista Leanna Ordonez. She plays for
the Mexican women's national team. Jan Dada, thank you so
much for joining us and give I just want to
give some background information Ondiana before we get more into it.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Over some cafecito. Danna played for the University.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Of Virginia and at her time there, she scored forty
five career goals in a queen in sixty two games.
Go up, I know, which is the third most in
Virginia history. So major props for such a top collegiate career.
She was number thirty overall pick in the twenty twenty
three draft for a see courage, where she made seventeen
(01:02):
starts and nineteen appearances in her rookie season alone, and
she finished fourth in the nWo Cell by scoring eleven
goals in that season alone. So snaps because we got
straight up baller, uh. And then, like Famila said, she
joined the Mexican national team, although she spent some time
with the US women's youth national team system, which we'll
(01:25):
we'll get into that for sure. She debuted for three
in April of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So here we have it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Dianna Ordonez, bien Venila, welcome to Astajo podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Thank you so much. That's quite the introduction. I appreciate
it to be here.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Intros Let's And honestly, you have like a very iconic
name like Diana Rosario Torres.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Thank you say that a few times fast.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
It's just like very like Hispanic and the best way,
like I love I love one my my Latina for
have like forty five names and I always use the
entire name.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So like, so how is it fit? Like give us
some how like what are you? Where are you? By
the way, how are you feeling?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I feel great right now. I'm in my parents' house.
We had a couple of days off, so I'm at
my parents' house in Dallas, Texas. So yeah, just relaxing
a little bit, taking some time. But no, I feel good.
I mean we're right in the middle of it right now,
so just normal mid season pains and that kind of thing.
But yeah, no, I'm great. I'm great.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I'm happy to be home for our listeners that, for example,
like are not super familiar with like the training aspect
of like what you guys go through day's day, can
you explain to us like from top, like you wake
up in the morning till you go to sleep, Like
a typical day for you during season?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, I would say, like a midweek day kind of
like not too close to a game before or after.
I am quite an early bird, I would say, so
if our arrival I wake up whenever two hours, but
for our arrival time, so whatever that time is, usually
it's around eight thirty. Uh, wake up at six thirty.
I gotta have my cafesito, So I get Yeah, I
(03:10):
get up.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
That's your coffee? What's your coffee order?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I'm simple. I like a latte. I'm simple.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay, you make it at home like you do it yourself.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah. So actually usually in the morning I'll have a
macha and then my afternoon drink will be a coffee,
So like I kind of do both.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But I also I also mix and match sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, back just depends on what the vibe is when
I wake up. But yeah, so no, I get up,
I get up pretty early. Make sure I read my
Bible first. Thing in the morning. It's important to me
just kind of I like to take my morning like
very slow. I don't I'm not that kind of person
that can just roll out of bed and get going
Like that's just not me. I don't like that. So
I get up, I take my time, I read, I
(03:48):
have breakfast, and then once it's time to head out,
I usually get there probably forty five minutes before the
actual arrival. I like to kind of be like quiet
in the locker room, get ready by myself, get some
treatment or like do some stretching activation, whatever I need
to do. We have meetings, we have training. Sometimes we
have more meetings, and we have lyft. It just kind
of depends on the day. So I would say I
(04:11):
probably get out of there on average maybe like too
one or two o'clock every day. So that's not too
bad of a gig, right, I get home, Yeah, I
get home at two o'clock, and I kind of have
the rest of the day for me to do whatever
it is that I need. So, yeah, my days are
pretty chill. It's nice being in this job. It's a
lot of like it's like very physically demanding, but you
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also do get I think people like don't realize how
much free time you actually do end up having.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Wait, what do you do when you get home at too?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Like are you watching? It just depends.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It depends on the day. Like sometimes I'll go for
coffee with my friends or go out and that kind
of like with them. A lot of times I just
sit on my couch I watch soccer, Like I watch
if there's a game on, it doesn't matter who's playing,
I'm watching it. It could be the U seventeen Conka
CAF qualifier, like I'm gonna watch it, like if there's
nothing on. I just love watching soccer so much, and
it's like easy for me to rest that way. Like midweek,
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like on Tuesdays, we have like young adults at church,
so like I'll do that. But yeah, I'm very I'm
very much a homebody. Like I don't do a whole lot.
I unfortunately don't even have like a ton of hobbies
like or anything, so I really just hang out. I
only have like one other teammate that lives in the
same place that I do, and she has a baby,
so that's fun. We'll go on walks and like I
get to hang out with her and play with play
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with her son. So like that's really fun too. We
get to spend a lot of time together. We've gotten
really close. So yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
What does your like nutrition look like right now? How
are you feeling?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah? I I'm not too like rigid. I think I
think like generally like I just am like pretty healthy.
I grew up with Thank god, I grew up my
mom cooking meals every single night for dinner, eating family
even yes, exactly exactly what.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Your favorite home cook meal.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Ooh make me hungry. I'm hungry, I know honestly, like
just like a the stata like with fish, like and
the way that she prepares it and just like cold
and like, oh it's just so good. Yeah, I love Yeah,
I need to get some of that and the like
my one day left here.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
But so in terms of nutrition, so you're not like
on like, oh my gosh, I need to have this
proteinum take I need to I don't know carbop like
what what exactly is like do you have a routine
to what you're eating?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, I think like a couple of years ago I
started being more in tune with that because you know,
once you start getting older, you can't just like eat
whatever you want and keep it pushing girl. Yeah, I
started like counting the macros, the calories, all that for
like a couple of weeks, and then once I kind
of had an idea in my head of what that
looks like, I didn't have to track it anymore. So
now it's kind of like second nature just to know
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kind of how much I've had throughout the day, if I've
had enough, if I've not had enough the protein and
all that. So I keep it like kind of in
the back of my mind. I'm mindful, but I'm not
like crazy about it. I think, like I love food,
I love like joining with people, like going out to
get meals, like eating with my family. Like it's just
such a especially in our culture, is just so like
a thing for people to like connect around. So I
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don't like to be like, oh, I can't go here
because I can't eat that, Like I'm gonna find something,
you know. So, yeah, that's something for me that culturally
it's just such a big deal. So I don't want
to be like, oh, sorry, like I can't. I just
feel like it's a little bit rude at least.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Yeah, and also aside from it being rude, like you
never want to miss out on the experience is because.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Of food exactly totally, and it's also like team bonding.
But also I feel like, yeah, as Latinas or Latinos,
like we bond over food.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
That's that's only when I go back about Pantina, like yeah,
when I got.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Like, that's that's it. I mean, you guys have it
overload and.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
They love they we love the la basta and the bread.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, so do I I am complaining.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I think one of the most.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Impressive things about professional athletes, especially somebody like you who
plays it the level capacity and is as impressive as
somebody like you. I'm repeating what my LEAs said in
the beginning, but forty five career goals in sixty two games,
that is the third most in Virginia history. You have
to have like a how do you lock in? Like
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I just want to know, like as a fitness girly
not a pro athlete myself, but I do still consider
myself an athlete, Like how do you like, what's your
tunnel vision?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Like, like how do you get in the zone? What's
the mindset?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I think? I think I'm just a competitor, like I
think some people are just wired that way. I also
just love soccer Like it sounds so cliche and so simple,
but for me, it's that simple. I love soccer. I
love it. I love it like it's I credit everything
you know in my life, all the good things have
happened to me to obviously my faith in God and
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him just carrying me through every situation, but also just
soccer has. Playing soccer has opened up so many doors
in my life, and it's giving me every opportunity that
I've had in even to obviously just be here with
you guys, and to meet amazing people and to just
have the experiences that I could have never dreamed of. Like,
I just love the game so much, Like I said,
I watch it like twenty four to seven, Like I
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think that's the thing that just keeps me going is
just my love for it. And obviously you know that
it's more than that, because sometimes loving it is not
going to be enough, because it's gonna eb and it's
gonna flow, and you're gonna have years that are hard,
and I've had them, and that's hard to keep that
kind of fire burning whenever it's not going your way.
But I think just being disciplined. I feel like I
was taught the like power of being disciplined at a
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young age. I'd give a lot of credit to my
parents for that, just kind of the way that they
raise me. But yeah, I just I just love I
love the game, like I'm obsessed.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
That's born this, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and own it.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I think when you mentioned going through also like challenging
tough times, you went through through almost two hundred days
without playing after a shoulder surgery.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
What was that injury? Sorry that for the shoulder? What
was it?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I tore my labor I dislocated my shoulder and tore
my labor on and it was actually the second time,
so I've had surgery on it two times.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I also dislocated my shoulder playing as well, and I
never want to go through that paint everything again.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
No, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
How did you deal with that, especially like after having
something that's so important to you being pulled away?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah, I think like the biggest blow of all of
it was that it was the second time. Like, I
think that to me was the most devastating, which is
like I already know what this is, Like I've been
through this. The first time I had surgery was like
my first surgery ever. This was at the end of
twenty twenty two, at the end of my rookie year,
and I didn't know the kind of effects that it
has on your body. And just like literally just from
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like waking up from anesthesia and like the next week
after like that, and how your body is and how
it feels, and I was not okay. I was not healthy.
I like couldn't eat, like I was super skinny. Like
all of that just took such a mental toll on
me as much as like a physical toll. And so
when I knew that I was gonna have to have
surgery again, like all of that came flooding back to
my mind, like I just could remember how it felt,
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and I was like, no, like this time, like I
got to take care of myself, Like I know I'm
going to be fine. I've been through it, Like I
just need to. As hard as it is to like
eat and just simple things like that that you kind
of like don't think about every day, Like it's so
much harder when you're not working out, when you're not training,
like you don't have an appetite. And then you just
had this like traumatic thing happened to your body. Like
it's so hard to just like take care of yourself
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and to try and be healthy. But I give so
much credit to the people that helped me and get back.
My surgeon was incredible. He helped me, and he did
the best possible procedure that was like the least invasive
that would still get me the best results. I mean,
he was incredible, and just the team at the DASH
just I obviously had to rehab the whole off season,
so like that means that's their off season too, that
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the pet is coming in every day and seeing me
and getting me back. So I'm super grateful for them
making that sacrifice. But yeah, I think I was more
scared because I knew what it was like, but I
also was more prepared. So I think I've come back
from this surgery much much better than the last one.
I feel stronger, I feel more confident in it. So yeah,
(12:09):
hoping that that's the last one. We're done with those, but.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Please, yeah, we're over. I have two questions. First off,
was that your first major injury or surgery?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, I would say like major for sure, because I
hadn't had an injury that required surgery before that, so
I would say yes. But I did have an injury
a back to back like same injury in high school
and then college, which was a stress fracture in my
foot that was like impossible to diagnose. I don't know why.
My first the first time it happened, I was like sixteen,
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and I didn't play for like three months and nobody
could figure out what was wrong. And then the second
time it happened in college again kind of the same situation.
I knew that feeling and I knew what it was,
and so it was like three weeks and I was good.
So like that was hard trying to figure out like
what was actually wrong. But I think like in terms
of the actual physical and mental toll, like my shoulder
was like brutal for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
What do you like for listeners that are either going
through injury or have gone through injury? What was your
biggest takeaway? Because for instance, I've gone through major injuries,
whether it's knee or achilles tear, and I feel like
in that year of recovery or more over a year
of recovery, like I took.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Away, you know, patience, and like I took him away.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I even like started a business at the same time,
because like, what else was I going to do if
you already had like free time while you're playing, when
you're playing in your rehab and you also have a
lot of free time. So what is has been like
your biggest takeaway in those almost two hundred days of recovery.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, first, I'll acknowledge that, like my injury, although it
did end up taking six months to come back from,
like I'm super grateful as my shoulder and not a
knee ankle like that kind of thing. Those things are
a completely different beast. Uh And thank god I have
not had to encounter that type of situation. But I
think just like under the umbrella of injuries, I think
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it can be from a mental side, quite isolating because
the nature of it. For example, people are in off season,
they're going they're doing fun things, they're planning trips, they're
like doing all the off season things. And I'm in
Houston showing up every day rehabbing, working like I didn't
get You don't get a break, you know, because you're
just having like every day it's a grind, like every
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day matters, and it's every day you're getting closer to
like that return to play date, So I think it
can be quite isolating. And for me, something that I
did during that time was usually the players that are
rehaving they don't have to be in team meetings, they
don't have to like do that kind of thing, and
they can also even show up like while the girls
are outside training, like they don't have to be there
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on arrival time like everybody else. I think for me,
what I did was I was in every meeting. I
was asking questions like if I was going to be
available for the next game, even though I wasn't, Like
I showed up at the same time as all the
girls did because I wanted to see my teammates and
just like seeing them out on the field just created
more desire for me to want to get back out there,
and like more hunger to work hard and to do
my exercise than to do the things that you don't
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want to do anymore so that you can get back
out there. So I think, like from a mental perspective,
that was definitely it, and I think like from a
physical standpoint, like it can be so tedious, just like
the same thing every single day, and you feel like
you're not getting better and you feel like you're not
making any gains, But that's pt Like, that's Rehabit's just
such a long process and it's so tedious, and you
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just feel like you're doing the same thing over and over.
But like, I think, you know, you are the most
responsible for the way that you come back. Like, yes,
it is important to have good pets and good doctors
and good surgeons and all that, but at the end
of the day, like you're the one that has to
do the work. So I think like just taking that
ownership and from a physical standpoint, pushing yourself and listening
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to your body and making sure that you are showing
up every day so you can be back as soon
as possible is just as important.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Y'all are to take notes on that, yeah, because there's
so many I've spoken to so many people that have
gone through injury and they're like, well, they get very,
very down and depressed, especially when it's like, for example,
you're playing a very specific sport. If you're a person
that's an athlete that is just in fitness or movement,
(16:21):
is a hobby for you, right, or a part of
your lifestyle, right, you might get like a shoulder injury
and be like Okay, well I have to just fully stop.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Like there's a lot of things.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
That you can do, especially as you rehab and you
get stronger, and if you focus on the things that
you can do, even if it's just rehab, or even
if it's just showing up early to hang out with
the girls before practice and like connect with your teammates
or be present in those meetings and things like that,
those are things that really even though like it's still
tough physically and it's still a devastating moment, can really
(16:51):
help you mentally to stay connected to the hope that there.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Is on the other side because you come back from
an injury.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yes, right, yeah, Yenna, Like for let's just say as
Latinas and like you are so inspiring because there are
many say Latinos in general that you know from when
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they were little, they were like always push to play sports,
you know in Camila and I have actually done like
episodes about this and like trying to motivate and get
more girls or women into sports and whether it's playing,
whether it's supporting women's sports as well. For you, when
you were little, what was Lil Danna like, Like, was
she already in love with the game, like you said,
(17:40):
but were your parents also very supportive, Like I want
girls or women to like walk away from this inspired
by your story.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yeah, no, that's a great question. I think I have
two older brothers, and I have.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Two older sisters.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Okay, I have a twi older brothers, So I feel
like my sisters were like not sporty. They didn't care
for it, like didn't like none of that. And then
my brothers they played soccer, and my dad played soccer.
But like I feel like I literally just like could
have gone one of two ways, and I was just
like a little tomboy. I wanted to run around with
my brothers. I was chasing them everywhere wherever they were
(18:15):
going and playing like I wanted to be doing it
with them, and they only played soccer pretty much. So
I like, for ever since I can remember, that's just
what we did. Like and obviously it's so cultural. My
dad's from Ecuador and then my mom's Mexican, so like yeah,
like it's just ingrained in me, like that's my dad,
Like it was just our sport, Like it's just what
we did. So for me, like I played some other sports,
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but like nothing really stuck the way that soccer did.
And and yeah, I mean I was a little competitor.
Like when there's kids, well you're you know, playing like
pee wee, like four years old and people are like
picking grass and running around circles like no, like I'm
gonna put the ball in the net. Like I was
just like I knew what it was about, and like
I wanted to play. And I've always been like that.
And my brothers like they did not take it easy
on me. They were so annoyed by me that they
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like wanted me to not follow them around, so they
would like push me or like slight tackle and like
pick the ball at me, and like I just like
wouldn't go it. So like even though it was hard
when I was little, like I'm grateful for it. And
my parents were super supportive. Like my mom, so this
is like one of my favorite parts. I guess it's
her story, but it's part of my story. She's my mom.
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But like when she was young, she her mom didn't
let her play sports because like organized sports, because she
had five brothers and so like her mom was like
over the whole like sports thing. She's like I have
one little girl, Like she's gonna be a little girl.
She's not going to play sports.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And like that.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Exactly. Yeah, and that's like how the culture was like
back then, you know, like growing up in a like
small little town like south of LA, Like that's just
how it's going to be, you know. So, yeah, she
she was athletic, but she didn't know the rules. She
didn't know you know, that kind of thing, Like she
just played baseball with her brothers, like because that's all
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the only thing she was allowed to do. So for
me growing up, for her to have that experience and
allow me to explore that and freely, they didn't like
push it on me. They just knew that I loved it,
and they knew that I like being active and I
like playing sports, and so they let me. And that's
something I'm super grateful for because she could have easily,
you know, taken in another direction and be like, no,
my mom didn't let me, I'm not going to let you.
So I'm grateful that, you know, that's not how it
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worked out for me. But yeah, I think like what
you're saying in terms of like inspiring younger girls to
just be involved in that kind of thing, I think
a big part of it. If the natural like reaction
from a young girl is not like the direction that
I took, and it's more like, you know, they don't
like sports or they don't like that kind of thing,
that's totally fine. I think the important thing is like visibility.
(20:43):
So like now you can turn on the TV and
you can watch a women's soccer game, a women's basketball game.
You can see women playing sports and doing so like
successfully in a way that they can actually like make
a fair wage where they can actually live their life
and not have to work three jobs just because they
want to play a sport. So I think like continuing
to grow in that area and just having the visibility
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out there is like half the battle, because if you
can see it, like how people say, if you can
see it, you can be it. So it's like I
think even if that's not something they're into, even if
they see it, it's like, oh, but that's a girl,
like a girl basketball player or a girl soccer player,
It's like they'll still be into it. It might not
be for them to like participate in, but like they
might be more open to like supporting it because they
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can actually see us, you know, And I don't think
I had that when I was younger.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
And something that I love about you too is that,
like you also show people that you can do both,
because I see your outfits and you are on your
stunting in the streets.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Okay, give us some fashion sicks. Oh my god, like
the brown.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Like crop jacket situation that you just posted with the pants.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I was like, dear God, that's incredible.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Are you recently getting into fashion or have you always
been a fashionista.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I think I'm like recently getting into fashion in a
way that I'm more like expressive and like proud of.
I think like I've always I think it's funny because
I've always been like different though, like since I was little,
like I would just wear weird stuff. I'm like, y'all, y'all, Ever,
now everyone's wearing jorts like I was wearing jorks. Y'all
(22:23):
are bullying me for the jorts in the eighth grade.
Now everybody's had shorts down to their calves. So like,
I was always like a little bit different, And again
my mom was just like, I guess she's just gonna
wear whatever she wants, which was amazing, But like now
now I'm like kind of understanding it better. At least
fashion more like, yeah, I understand it better now, but
it's just it's just fun. It's a way for me
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to like express myself.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I'm not very Like you do have a hobby, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yes, yeah, that would be like my only hobby, I think.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
So, like do you do you pick out your fits?
Like or what do you do? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
So, like, for instance, what I love so much even
about like the end of a sout even w NBA,
like y'all get to stadium with his looks like you
ready to play?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
But because I just go into the post house and
the like where.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Are you going?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Like what do you mean to work?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah? So do you plan those or how do you
get those fits together?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
So it's a little bit of both, Like sometimes I'll
do it myself, but I actually do work with a
stylist Closet six at Closet six on Instagram. Yeah, he's amazing.
I actually met him at the end of my first
year in Houston. He like saw me somewhere, swiped up
on a story like, oh, I like your outfit, And
(23:37):
then when I kind of saw what he was about,
I was like, you're just being nice because like your
outfits are like way cooler than this. But we ended
up meeting and like starting to work together. So the
pictures on my Instagram that are like very like shot
look runway look very like that, he does those. So
he styles and he takes the pictures. He's extremely talented.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Where's Ronnie.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
He's in New York. He's in New York right now.
So yeah, so yeah, he's been just a absolute pleasure
to work with, super professional, like really really made me
super comfortable. He had never worked with a female athlete
before me, so for him to kind of take that
on and like that whole experience and learning curve like,
he did it so gracefully and I'm just so grateful
(24:18):
to know him, to call him my friend, like to
work with him is amazing. So sometimes we do stuff remotely.
Sometimes when I do have time to go over there,
I'll go over there and we can shoot together. But yeah,
he's just so creative and he's very open. He doesn't
like force anything on me. It's not like, oh, because
my name's on it, I want it to look like this,
Like No, he wants me to look like d like
what I like and what I'm interested in and what
(24:39):
I'm willing to try with you know, kind of pushing
my limits a little bit, but in a way that
we're both comfortable with. So he's amazing, Like I can't get.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Money, he is serving okay literally serving.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Got you work with a stylist too?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I mean this is a huge talking point for our
listeners as well, because like, what, what do you love
so much about working with the style?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
From your perspective?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, my stillence is Lene Attelier. I don't know how
to pronounce that actually interesting myself.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I think for me it's all about like building confidence too,
and and having open conversation about like how you want
to express yourself. I think something that I loved with her,
which I'm sure that you also did with yourself this
was that we like sat down and we were like,
what are your pain points? Like what has your is
your experience with fashion? Like what are things that like
make you feel comfortable and don't make you feel comfortable?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Like how what?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
And then also she like challenges me to try pieces
sometimes that I might be like, oh that's not for me,
and then I put it on and I'm like oh way, yeah,
like and then.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
It just makes me feel really great. And I do
feel like.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
There is a difference in in in the way in
my confidence too, when I show up tournament and.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I know that I got a look on.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, yeah, like it just it makes me I.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Even subconsciously present myself in a different way.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Yeah for sure. Yeah, no, I couldn't agree more. Yeah,
it's amazing.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
And I think it's especially for like if we're busy,
like it's it's styling and thinking about what you're gonna
wear for these things like takes plenty.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
It takes time, it's its effort.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
So like I'm with my stylists at the top of
every weekend, honestly, we plan out the outfits that I'm
gonna wear for that week, and and that's the secret.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, that's what I need.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
We were just talking about that this morning too, because
I'm right now decided.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
It's like I need like forty five outfits times, like it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Could be like I have to have so many studio
fits soon for summer tournaments. So like I'm like, I
like it's more of a time thing for me to do.
I actually enjoy like piecing up outfits and like accessories
and stuff like that, but a lot of time goes
into that. So yeah, that was like our topic, our
discussion this morning. Okay, wait, let's jump back into soccer
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real quick. My soccer girlies and I kind of similar,
but I haven't learned why you. You played for the
US youth national team and then you made a jump
to the Mexican.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Actually, so, I, you know, grew up.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I'm American born and raised in the United States of Florida,
but I played for Cooham. Yeah, so I want to
know what that was like for you in terms of
making that decision to you know, say, okay, I don't
want to play on the US potentially like women's national team.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Mexicano was a national team for me.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Yeah, I'll start by saying it was really hard. It
is really hard. I got my Mexican passport when I
was like sixteen because my dad was always Once he
like found out that we would be able to that
would even be a possibility, he was like, let's just
get everything in order so that if one day you
do decide you want to go over there, we won't
(27:43):
all of the like headache of it will be done.
You could just go. So that door was open very
early and for a very long time, which I'm super
grateful that they were so patient with me with that.
But I think because I grew up in the US,
obviously all I grew up seeing and knowing and then
getting into that system, into that youth national team system
(28:03):
was US soccer. Like that when I saw myself in
a World Cup, when I saw myself all of those
things like it was in a US soccer jersey. So
I think the hardest part for me was like having
to let that version of my dream kind of die
and like just realizing, like, if I make this decision,
that is no longer a possibility when I had grown
(28:24):
up thinking like that was the goal, you know. So
And another hard part of it was that I made
that decision very early in my career. I had just
gotten drafted. I was like three months into my professional
career and I decided to switch. So I think for me,
one of the biggest points was the possibility of playing
in a World Cup at twenty years old, Like we
were about to have qualifying and then we were going
(28:46):
to go on and then obviously ended up not qualifying,
which was a huge disappointment, but a really important experience
that kind of shaped me and I know it'll make
me a better player in person. For what happened, and
it also sparked a lot of change for the federation,
which was definitely needed. You know, we want to go
to a World Cup, but we don't want to go
just to say we went. We want to go and
(29:07):
we want to compete, like we want a chance, you know,
a fighting chance, and I don't think the state of
the team at that time would have allowed us to
do that. So yeah, I think like a big part
of it, after the fact that I didn't realize was
going to have such an effect on my life, was
just the cultural aspect of it. Like I grew up
in the town I live in is called prosper Texas.
(29:29):
It's like was when we first moved here in the
middle of nowhere. Now it's like quite there's a lot
of people here now, but yeah, like there's not a
lot of Hispanic people. Like I wasn't speaking we don't
speak Spanish, I don't speak Panish to my parents, like
just my grandparents, and like I didn't I was not
like connected with my culture really in any way other
than like the dinners we eat and like talking to
(29:49):
my grandparents. So to kind of like make that change
and then going to the University of Virginia, like also
not a place where there's Hispanic people, and then living
in North Carolina, like I just was so out of touch.
And then finally when I made that switch, the way
that it changed my life, like it brought me so
much more like fulfillment and just like satisfaction that I
(30:11):
think then I think if I would have just like
gone to the World Cup, do you know what I mean?
Like there was so much more to it that I
didn't realize that was not about soccer at all. And
so to get to like actually reconnect and like travel
to Mexico, to have to play in Mexico, to like
be in front of those fans, to feel what it's
like for them, because it's so different, you guys, know,
especially the country that you're from, Like soccer in the
(30:33):
US is not what soccer is in these countries, like
it is what they live and breathe and die by.
So to get that experience and then to also just
like the food that we eat there and the conversations
that I have with my teammates, the music we listened to,
Like my whole life just like started changing and like
shifting more into you know how my my parents kind
of well not my dad's not Mexican but just like Hispanic,
(30:55):
but like how they grew up and now like I
have so much more for full conversations with like my
extended family who like they don't speak English or like
that kind of thing, because I have so much more
experience in immersed in the culture than like kind of
just seeing people every once in a while being like,
oh hey miss you, like whatever.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Now like so much more, my family is so much
more invested in my career because they feel represented by it,
and that like I could have never imagined that would
have been the case, but it's so it's so like
warming and fulfilling that like I could bring more people
with me, and like more people are invested and more
people feel like they're on this journey with me because
they feel represented by just me. So like that is
(31:39):
like more than any like World Cup could ever give me.
And so like I didn't know that going into it,
but now being on the other side, I'm like, oh,
I wouldn't have it any other way, Like I I
wish I did it, you know years ago.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You know you're you're like a true epitome or example
of like Niliakina. Yeah, you know, just like commie and
I are some times we feel that through our life experiences.
What is like your advice to those who also feel that,
like about embracing the culture of combe in, Like you're
(32:11):
also feeling that you know you're from here, but from
there you're kind of like the outsider in some ways,
then you you're still an insider at the same time.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like when you grow up in
places like I grew up, like the easy thing to
do is to just like fit in. And I think
I don't think it's about fitting in. I think it's
just about doing what's true to you. Like if I wish,
like I spoke more Spanish when I was younger, I wish,
you know, like I watched more Mexican soccer. I would like,
(32:39):
you know, like those kinds of things like, and I
think it's just so you don't realize until you're older,
Like actually, how cool and what a privilege it is
to have different like facets of culture that you can
like tap into. And so for me, like now it
is heavily more Mexican just because of the team, but
like even like my dad, like the Ecuadorian side like
I grew up like being a or fan and Equador
(33:00):
We're playing Mexico root for Ecuador, Like it was so funny.
And then now I'm like you guys think, Yeah, I
think like in terms of like advice, just like you said,
like just embracing it, Like I think it sounds really simple,
but it could be so hard, like when you're young,
especially when you're trying to figure out who you are
and what you identify with and all these different things.
Like just if that's what you if you love your
culture and like you want to embrace it, like just
(33:22):
do that and you're going to be better for it
and more I would say, more like well rounded in
a way of just like being able to connect with
different types of communities and people and and that kind
of thing. So yeah, it's been it's been a really
cool experience and one I definitely didn't think I was
going to get so much added value like that has
nothing to do with soccer, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
It's so fulfilling.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
I mean, I've I was born on Hintina and I
came to the US when I was like seven, but
and there's still like that type of like reconnection with
our culture that is so important and it just like
it's it's one of the most fulfilling things that like
we can do. So whenever I have the opportunity to
like encourage anybody to like go out there and like
do the thing and like visit their their country even
(34:05):
if they don't have any more family left there or
anything like that, Like, so I always tell them to.
So props to you, Like I'm sure that you're discovering
so many amazing things, and you know, eventually, maybe one
day if you're like.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
A little bored and you want to pop on a novel,
like there's.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
I gotta know, I gotta know before before we let
you go, because we're you have to wrap.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
But what did you like go to hype track?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
HiPE track? Like one song?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah? One?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Or yeah, Like.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
I feel like it just depends on the mood that Okay,
well I'll just let you in on a secret. I'll
do that. I'll give you one, but I'll let you
on a secret because I think it's actually so funny.
I love secrets. But you guys know the like very
famous Mexican song. Yes, yes, so you're saying, I like
(35:00):
it doesn't matter what track. Like Sometimes before games I'm
listening to worship music or I'm listening to like Drake
Like it just depends on the day. But like that song,
I have to hear it at least one time before
any game that I play in. And it doesn't matter
if it's Dash, it doesn't matter if it's Mexico. Like
no one. I actually don't think I've ever told. I
think I've told my mom this and that's it. So
I'm gonna get made fun of. I literally at least
(35:21):
one time, at least one time, I just have to,
like it just has to happen, and I just sit
there quietly and I just like, don't tell anybody about it,
and I just let it run its course. And then
I'm like, Okay, I got it.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
I love that to add to my playlist. Do you
ever do singers? It just like in your ear.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
It's just in my ear, and I'm just enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
It was so good.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Yeah, literally Mexican.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I just can't do, you know, alto like, I can't
do it. I'm actually embarrassing. I won't public maybe after
a few like Taky last Minus maybe maybe that, but
not now.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Literally before we recorded this, I pretty sure it was
like try not to scream too much.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh shoot, I just screamed Latin. Okay for anyhow, Danna.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
It was such a pleasure to get to know you.
We are so excited to see you like pop off
this season. We will be one thousand percent cheering for
you from the sidelines.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Thanks. And it's so great to meet you, guys. I
appreciate you having me on and it was a lot
of fun, so comfortable. I love it. It's great.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
Well, don't go anywhere anybody, because we still have to
do that. I got my foremos last segment, but we'll.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Be thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Welcome back everybody.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Now we call this segment Aga my Famosa where I
kick things off making kameni fams about the latest and
greatest REX about sports, and then you give me the
latest and greatest REX about music.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
And this week, or the last couple of weeks, I
have discovered an artist that she's been around for a minute.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Like she was in She performed at Coachella this year.
She is a little bit more like Indie. Her Ispanola.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Her name is Jude Line, Jude Line, and her voice
is just majestic and iconic. My favorite track from her
right now is called Mangata, and she has like it's
like Indie Edmy a little bit of trap, but I
would like to call it like a little bit more
alternative than like the mainstream.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Stuff that's happening right now. Her entire vibe, like, first
of all, she's so nice.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
She came to the studios to show us some of
her new tracks, which are all just like so impressive.
She works with a lot of French producers, and the
sound is very unique and that I love, especially because
like I feel like in the Latino space there's a
lot of like moving around, but I get gon so
when I hear a different sound, I'm always like pulled
(38:14):
in that direction.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
And I love kind of like a euphoric moment that
you can just kind of get lost in the.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Beat and and kind of like find a repetitive kind
of flow. I think that track is perfect for running.
But she has so many like really really dope vibi tracks.
I want to go see her perform at elsewhere here
in Brooklyn, and she her show, she had like this
this backup dancer who was kind of like a man slave,
(38:42):
and I love a man slave moment.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I'm sorry, I love a man slave moment. He was
just there like swooning over her.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
Also he was a little bit like crazy, I think,
but like it was just like it all hit at
the same time because it was like her look is
so like alternative, her sound is so alternative. And then
to this like man that she was like on his
back like and he was like carrying her or like
being her like servant.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
I was like, go off. So that's Jude Line.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
Add her to your playlist to listen to her and
then come back and thank me later, because I know
you are one of my favorite artists of the moment,
and I know that we just had a conversation with
Leannamelies and I feel like that is our AASA moment
for football, And I think that one of the most
fun MOSA things besides your beautiful and amazing personality you're
(39:33):
girls as an athlete and you're just impressive nature overall,
is that you are still continuing to play football for
fun obviously, but also people like they want to know,
like how you train, like what's your like.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
People will be like those apps. Though she's like it's genetic.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
I'm like, it's them, that's how she.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
No.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
So it's funny you say, like, oh, you play like
soccer stale. Well, guys, Honestly, over the past six months,
like I moved from New York to Miami, and I've
been feeling so guilty, like this miss in my heart
and my soul because I actually haven't been playing a
lot of soccer like I used to when I lived
in New York. And you know, I was in New
York and I got to play soccer, and I said.
(40:17):
One of the things I said is like, well, I'm
in New York. I'm going to hit up my crew
that I always go and play morning footy with, and
I'm going to get my hour sash, get my touches
on the ball. But guys like I also, and I'm
going to be super like open and like transparent with you.
I wasn't nervous, but I was a little fearful. And
we had a whole conversation about injuries and getting over injuries,
(40:37):
and like, I'm thirty five years old and like the
least thing I want to do right now in my
life is get injured and go through a whole rehab,
especially with work and I travel so much. So like
I was actually like a little word like God, please
don't get injured. And that's the worst thing you could
think about when you're going to go play a sport.
But I do want to give y'all a recommendation, like
a tip, like get over that fear, Like shit happens,
(41:01):
and if it happens, it happens, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
Like, but you're also doing everything that you that you
possibly can to make sure that it doesn't happen. Like
Many's strength train I do, Madie says recovery. She literally
has an ice plunge in her back.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
I do to a whole punch.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Okay, it's where your device. So she's like doing everything
that she possibly can. And that's why you're like, get
over it too, like there's only so much that you
can do exactly.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Race is kind of like, but isn't it crazy?
Speaker 2 (41:26):
And I still like go through that fear and that
like mental talk in my brain where I'm like, oh,
I'm a little scared, But then I'm just like whatever,
you're gonna have fun, go and have fun. So if
you guys want to try out, like whether it's a
new sport, what's getting back into the sport that you
love to play, whether it's doing an exercise, whether it's
going to zoomba, whether whatever it is, like go and
do it, book that class book.
Speaker 5 (41:48):
That ride with Kami, drop it low.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Yeah, just get over that fear because like, guys, I'm
so happy I did that this morning. I actually it
brings me back to like my childhood and my my
inner girl that I got to play. And as far
as the apps go, I'll give you those tips and
tricks in another episode.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Literally, Jene's like, I don't know what you what you guys?
What do you guys want me to do?
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Well, that's a wrap I think for this week's episode
of Thank you very very much to our special guest Vienna.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
What else comey?
Speaker 5 (42:23):
Yeah, don't forget to keep commenting on these episodes. Send
us message, just like let us know, like what you
want to see next, Like we we want to see
like y'all's feedback on the pod, Like we've been loving
recording these episodes for y'all and.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
We just can't wait to do more.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
All right, Well, we'll catch you on the next We'll
catch you next time.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
He is an iHeart Women's Sports production and partnership with
Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
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Speaker 2 (42:55):
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