July 3, 2025 • 29 mins
We are back with another minisode of LET HER SHOOT! The Women's Sports podcast that covers the game we want it covered. We have lots of USWNT thoughts after three dominant friendlies. Sarah breaks down what she saw at the USA v Canada matchup in D.C. We are talking youth movement, Canada's woes, and our good ole fashion rivalry with the north.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Today on Let Her Shoot, we're just doing it all
women's national team conversation.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We had multiple friendlies, so she's still with me.
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all soccer, the entire EPA.
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Since I say that I was born, I've been a
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Welcome to Let Her Shoot.
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All the reasons to stay locked in.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I am in a conference room, Sarah, because people who
do they think they are, they're just using the podcast room.
It's basically mine, even though it's not mine.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Uh.
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Sarah Chovnik is here.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Two times Emmy Award winning producer Tristic Craig zero time
Emmy Award winning quote unquote talent the quote unquote is.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Doing a lot of legwork here, not doing some heavy lifting.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
The quote heavy heavy lifting.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Ollie Ollie is headed for What kind of award would
Allie get if he was going to get one of
the time one of the egots.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You know, he's getting Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
No an egot would he get? Otmyre you getting Emmy.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
For He's given me Tony. He's given me Tony Tony.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I agree, he's a little sweet. We have a special
US National Team episode for you, breaking down the last
few friendlies. This friendly Sarah was.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
At, so we're gonna talk a lot about that one
US versus Canada in the d m V.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
It was hot?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Does fish greasee out? So, Sarah, how are you feeling well?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I'm happy that I didn't get so dehydrated that I
didn't make it to this show because it was quite
toasty out there. I'm on an intentionally wearing this today
on ironically, I didn't even mean to. But it was
all USA. I mean it was big uppercase letters USA
at that game last night. I'll tell you what, I
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have never been in an environment like that for a
women's sporting event in my entire life. There were almost
twenty thousand people there in rowdy audi which if you've
never been to a game in Audi, then you need
to because Audi is probably one of the best venues
for a women's sporting event. It's the way it's so
steep that like the sound just like reverberates, and it
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was so exciting. It was so exciting to be there,
and I was a little nervous because like five minutes
before kickoff there was you know, it was like half
the stadium was full, and I was like, oh, this
is a sellout crowd. I thought that there were gonna
be more people there, and then I looked up at
one point because I heard the roar. Seventeen minutes in,
we get a Sam Coffee goal off of a corner
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kick and the roar was like, I mean, it was
like a college football game.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It was just like Katy Perry. It was like Katy Perry.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Do people oh like the song roar?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, I don't. No, we're not fucking with Katy Perry.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
No, I mean I am, but you know she's saying
is she's definitely.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
By by the way, Katy Perry.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I don't know if you ever saw her when she
was on American Idol, but she was always flirting with
the girlies.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Katie Perry's her debut song is I kissed a girl.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So yeah, but then you can easily say that she's
one of those fake bye girls. Yeah, literally just to
try it though, she could be one of those fake
fake girls, and just I just wanted to make my
boyfriend happy, and so I tongued the girl down.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
You got not even two days out of Pride and
you're already coming for the bisexuals.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Somebody said why they really quickly before sorry side road,
that they shouldn't have traded the listen during Pride.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
It was homophobic.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
That's homophobic behavior, is to trade and listen during Pride. Anyway,
back to the soccer, So a couple other observations that
I've had is that there were so one thing that
surprised me actually going back to Pride for a second,
was it used to be because I've been I've been
going to women's sporting events right now for I don't
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know a long time.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I went to a long pause.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
It was, I mean, because I'm trying to think, like,
I've been going to NWSL games since the end of
USL was birthed in the early twenty tens, and I've
been going to women's basketball events. I've gone to a
lot of different women's sporting events, and typically what you
would see in the past is that the majority of
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the fan base that is in the state is the
LGBT community. Like that is that is what it's always
we don't do Q.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
We don't do the Q anymore, LGBTQ plus okay anyway,
So it usually was the gays. It has always been.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
That's always been the fan base at these stadiums. I
was surprised and like, it actually really made me smile,
which is a weird This is going to be sound
like a weird sentence to see how many men were there,
and how many men were with their daughters that were
there or that were just with their girlfriends or their
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wives or whatever that were just like in their rose
level jersey and in their Lindsay Heaps jersey and with
their face paint on. And I was like, you know what,
this is really cool to see because this isn't being
treated like an exhibition. It's being treated like a real
sporting event, like a real die hard fans painting their faces,
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getting their jersey, getting their beers, paying attention to the game.
It wasn't just oh, this is a fun thing for
us to do. Like this was real fans in a
stadium watching a game yelling at the refs for a
card that they should have thought that they thought should
have been given.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Or yelling for I saw that that was a bad tackle,
that was really bad, that should have been a card.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I was sitting next to Sam and like, Yo, that's
that's out of pocket.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I gotta say so so Sam, for anyone who doesn't know,
my fiance is a former soccer player who is from Canada.
She's a Canadian and so she heard her roots are
not with the US national team, they're with Canada, and
so she was probably.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Immigrated.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
That's actually a part of the immigration test is that
you have to name us.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Name US and US women's national team players and your
favorite things about them. Until you can't do that for US,
you're not getting in.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Name the starting name, our starting roster, and if you
can't do it, you're not allowed to come in. So
she was sitting there and every time there would be
like a hard tackle. There was one really early on
in the game, and I think it was I'm trying
to remember who it was. I think it was Heidema
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and she just like body checks her out of bounds
and I looked over at Sam immediately and she goes, no,
you didn't see that. You didn't see that. This game,
this is just how this game is gonna go. This
game is chippy. Canada and the US are chippy. There
are chippy game. I mean, you're always gonna I loved that,
by the way, that all states sponsored it and called
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it the Continental Classico or whatever it was like, which
is funny because that's like Spanish, and yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I had a really quick side road again.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I had a guy who replaced me when I left
my radio show, and he's always using Spanish terms.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And I'm like, is Brad Latino? He's like, oh la,
oh miga, like get your surveces, and I'm like, why
is Brad saying all this? Like Spanish name was Brad?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Brad?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Like named Brad?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
What are you doing anyway? So it was shippy.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
They don't like each other, they don't like These teams
don't like each other. I asked Sam, Hey, why don't
these teams like each other? And her answer was just
because they just don't.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, it's kind of like Romeo and Juliet and the
neighbors were neighbors, but like.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The Montagues what is it? And the Managues and the something.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
The capulates and it's like, yo, these two families just
don't fuck with each other.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
We don't even know where it starts, where it goes back.
It's probably when we invaded them.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I think it's from when they abandoned us during the
you know, the Revolutionary War and said no, we're going
to stay with England.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So well, that's what I mean. It's like it doesn't
I think it goes back to like English ties.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Like way back. Yeah, there's still they're still monarchy where
they're still monarchy and we don't they but you know
what's funny is like they think we want to be them,
and we think they want to be us, and like
we know, we know they want to be us. I
don't know that they want to right now, well not
right now, but like not right now.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Historically, maybe there's no Love Island Canada, okay.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
And they're never will be They're never Oh what would
it even be?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Oh way could I for they're not British.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Oh that's what they say.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
You know, hey, but you did an accent.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
No, I mean, I'm trying to distinguish you. It's like Fargo. Sorry,
boot sry sorry. See exactly anyway, they want to do
back our stuff. They want our culture, our pop culture,
our music, our fashion. They literally want stevery. They don't
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they yeah, they don't want to be their own thing.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
We don't.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
And we know that they're thieves because don't forget that
they cheated at the Olympics and that was why they
have to have a new coach now who By the way,
I want to go back. I want to back up
a little bit. So Canada sure that. So Canada and
the US have always had a tough back and forth rivalry.
It the last two Olympics have really added to this.
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You know, Canada won gold at the twenty twenty played
in twenty twenty one Olympics, and the US won gold
at the last Olympics. And if you don't really remember,
because this was a before the tournament started, but right
before the Olympics started, Canada got busted flying a drone
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over New Zealand's practice. After that, they got you know,
they got penalized. They had to really work their way
through the pool play in order to make it to
the semi finals. They did, which was super impressive. Because
no one really thought they could. They had to essentially
go undefeated in pool play, and their coach was ended
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up being fired. They ended up hiring a new coach
more recently, Casey Stony, who had been at the San
Diego Wave. Her leaving the Wave was a little bit
like no one really knew what was going on. It
was a little bit I don't really know what's happening here.
So she gets fired and then like a couple weeks later,
Alex Morgan just suddenly retires and there's a lot going on.
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So there was a lot of n She's a good coach.
Though she's a good coach, she's kind of in that
she's from England, so she's a little bit in that
Emma Hayes world of like her mindset, her mentality of coaching.
And I think that she really is a great coach
for Canada to bring their program back and get them
out of kind of this stigma that they've had now
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with the whole cheating allegations and having to get rid
of their coaching staff. So I think Casey Stony is
a really good fit for them. She was not happy
with this outcome. Yesterday she was put in plane three nothing,
three nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It was.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
An as it was an a belt to ask, belt
to ask, and it was a good game. It didn't
feel like it should have been a belt to ask.
All of the US goals came off of set pieces.
There was a corner kick, there was a free kick,
and there was a throw in, so all three of those,
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which historically is what Canada is really really good at,
and what they did not capitalize off of. And I
think that was what Casey Stony was not so happy about,
was the set pieces. Scoring on set pieces and also
defending set pieces is what Canada is known for, and
that was what their weakness was yesterday. They didn't I
don't even know that they had a they ran a
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set piece, now that I'm thinking about it, I can't
remember watching them kick a corner or a penalty kick
at all yesterday. So now I'll give them the credit.
Had they there were a lot of opportunities for it
to have gone even more out of hand than it did.
It could have been sick nothing if a couple of these.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You know, their defense is one that hit the crossbar.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, their goals Kayln Sheridan is one of the top
goals like she's really really good. But then they have
some like questionable players that I think there's been a
there's been some frustration for Canadian fans on certain players
that are getting into the lineup and and you know,
maybe they need to bring in some younger players as
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well in the way that the US has been doing.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
So they're washed. You're saying that these Canadians are saying
that they're washed. No, I'm not saying what are the
Canadians saying? The saying that they're washed.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I think that they're just there's they're having a long
in the tooth. No, they're having some I think they're
having some difficulty getting balls into the back of the net.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Well, that's kind of thing, is they're really.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, it's just kind of if you look at like
a pyramid of strength, right, like their strength is defense
and then their midfield and then their weakest part. But
their weakest spot is their offense.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Like our men's US national team. Correct, But that's very frustrating.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, Like they're like the men's US national team where
it's like, yo, could we get a guy that could
put the fucking ball in the net?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Correct? I think frustration.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Polistic being the only thing. So yeah, I can get
what Canada is saying.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
You know, some of these going and pulling younger players
out of the NWSL or now they have the Northern
Super League that they can come and pull younger players
out of and start developing them. The US has really
kind of found this in putting younger talent on the field.
I think we've been seeing that. We saw Claire Hutton,
Izzy Rodriguez both were first time scorers. Avery Patterson, Sam
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Coffee scored twice in these three games. Alyssa Thompson has
been every time she got the ball last night, it
was like she's gonna she's gonna score, she's gonna say something.
It was like you could feel the energy in the
air when Alyssa touched the ball. It was like everyone
just like moved forward on their chair, you know, because
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it's like, oh, here it comes, it's coming.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
He looks coming far. I mean, I think what I
saw was that it looked like the time of possession.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And I didn't see what this actually was, but it
just looked like Canada couldn't get their foot on a
ball for more than five to.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Ten seconds before the US took possession back. And it
felt like.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Almost like a like international Spanish type of national league
play where we were just on the attack until maybe
like the eightieth minute, eighty fourth minute or something like,
but we were just down their throat.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
That's how we play them, that's how you play them.
We don't give them a lot of space.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And I like that. That's the kind of soccer.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's the kind of football that I won our country
to be putting in place. And I think also to
your point, so many young players that were shining where
I'm not even aware of who some of them are,
and I'm like, oh, we can't get rid of heard
she's she's sick, or oh I can't get rid of
she's too good.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, she's way too good.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
And we had multiple players who are staples of the
US women's national team that didn't play. And my question
for you is, are they kind of getting get edged
out when we have like a final roster decision.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
It's hard because lindsay.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Leave out Trinity. I'm not saying that, no, but.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I do think that. And this was sort of a
comment I made early on uh earlier on like a
couple months ago, was mal and Sophia are both out
from maternity they're both you know, we don't know when
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they're coming back, right, we'd have no idea. We haven't
seen malplay or Sophia play in several months, you know,
we have not seen them with the team. We've not
seen them with their club teams. We don't know what
they're coming back with. They are still so young, Like,
they're still so young, they're still in their mid twenties.
I think a lot of people forget that Mal is
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that young because she started on the team like at
the age of sixteen, so we've been watching her for
ten years. So I think people forget that Mal is
still only twenty seven because we've been watching her for
so many years. Trinity has had more of a newer introduction,
but she's still early twenties. Same with Sophia. So I
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will say though that my hot take is that I
don't know, and I would venture to say I do
not believe that we will ever see the Triple Espresso
play together on a national team again. Maybe they'll all
be on a roster at one point, but I don't
necessarily know that I ever see that starting three be
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the staple of the team. So we're saying goodbye to
the triple Espresso. But we are saying hello to the
baby Chino, who is the Thompson, Giselle Thompson and Croy Bethune,
which they are the future. They are the future of
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this team. I also think there are players like Lindsay
Heaps who are getting older and are you know, yes,
she is a foundational backbone of this team and the
structure of this team in the locker room. But I
think one of the big problems with Vlacko, the coach
before Emma, was his reluctance to start moving around players
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who had made maybe kind of gone past their prime
and continue to play players because of their pedigree. And
that was a big criticism of the last World Cup
was does Megan Rapino need to be on the field
because there were a lot of people who believed that
there was younger, fresher legs that could have been on
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the field taking those penalty kicks that wouldn't have knocked
us out. And I think that that But then there's
the other side of it of like do you want
the pedigree because act like you've been there before. Experience
is key, and so having a player like a Repino
back at that World Cup or having a Heaps going forward,
or a Trinity or a Sophia or a male who
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have that ability to teach these kids how it is
that you perform on the stage because it is a
huge stage. There are just twenty thousand people at your games.
You know, this is not the big leagues. It's as
big as you get. So I think there's a delicate balance,
and I think Emma Hayes is really figuring that out.
And I think where a lot of us have scratched
our heads being like, wow, she is complaying a completely
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different starting lineup tonight than she did the night before,
which was different than the night before that, like, and
it's different every time.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
This quote's crazy is she's like, how stacked are you
when you have a totally different starting group every four days?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Like you're literally like, I don't want so and so
to play. I don't want Rose level to play except
for every four days. It's like, oh, wow, we must be.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Really deep to have confidence doing that, especially against the
team like Canada where the rivalry is really huge, and
losing off home soil in Washington, DC would have been
if it would.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Have been on fourth of July weekend, on fourth of
July weekend. God forbid we lose that match three zero.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yeah, you can't. You can't lose that match. One of
my favorite moments of the entire night. In about like
the eighty fifth minute, the crowd starts chanting, we want Tara,
We want Tara. Who is Tara Mickeon and she is
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a Washington Spirit player, so you know, half the crowd
was there as Spirit fans, and she gets subbed on.
She plays the last few minutes, she comes into a
standing ovation and she has got an assist at the
eighty ninth minute, which was It's just a really cool
moment to see for women's sports, like chanting that they
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want a player on the field. And it was her
birthday too, so shout out to her her happy birthday.
What a great birthday present. Playing on her home field
on her birthday for her national team on fourth of
July weekend. I feel like there's probably not any experience
that gets much better than that.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
That's cutting onions right there, that's cutting onions. That's like
gives you chills. Uh Lynn, do I pronounce it? Dian
doola bandola and bandola.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
She's a beast.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
She's oh yeah, like it's she's like you know again,
because I'm just coming in here with fresh eyes.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You just you're like, oh, who was that?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh yeah, she's really good. It's like when I first
experienced Marta for the first time, I'm like, oh, yeah,
she's Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
She's the one. You don't need to really know a
lot to know she's the one. That's how I felt
about watching Bandola.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, she's fine. I saw. There's like a lot of
people think that like when she gets her leg wrap on,
that like that's when she gets the Asia leg wrap on.
You know, that's that's like we're getting into it now.
And so someone was like, oh, no, here we go,
uh leg wrap. Lynn is out there. She's a blast
to watch. She was one that, like, for a long
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time under Vlaco was not getting the looks that she
should have been getting. And that was one of the
things that I think Emma Hayes has done is bring
her in and get her involved in the in the
rotation because she is one of those players that is
so electric when she she's so fast. So I think
Lynn is one of those one of those players that
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you know, she's gotten moved around a little bit in
the NWSL teams. You know, I think finding her place.
She's really come into herself a little bit later in
her career, whereas you see some of these other ones
that were peaking in high school, like Alyssa Thompson. So
we're not peaking. We don't have no idea where Alyssa
Thompson's peak is. I mean, we could still be scary
base of yeah, we could still be at the base
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of her talent. We don't even know yet. All I
know is my god, she is fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, she's obviously one of those players where she's what
is she like nineteen? She's scary to watch her carry
You're like, what could you be? You could be.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Everything for us? And you're right, you look at like
what this team could be, and like what Emma Hayes
has done, like this is one of the most masterful
performance because honestly, we were starting to just roll out
the same old, same old, Like I was so tired
of seeing Alex Alex Morgan Rippino, you know, and and
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this is fresh, this is fun, this is young, this
is gen z. They're doing TikTok dances. You got like
sisters on the team, you got first US women's national
team appearances, You know who we got a little little
action to see is ooh she bad, Naomi Germa.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We got to see her.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Out there, the secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Defense
aka someone that Sarah never brings up because because she
knows it's going to come out.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
With ooh she bad, ooh she bad. She'll be captain,
you know, she'll be the veteran that is leading that
back line for a decade, the next decade. You know,
there's no doubt about that. I don't think that this
is Naomi's team to lead going forward, Like I truly
believe that. And she had the captain's arm band last night.
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Lynn had it the week before. And this is what
I mean, like we're starting to see a little bit
more responsibility dished out to these younger players. We're starting
to see Lindsay Heaps wasn't even on the roster for
these friendlies. There were a lot of players that weren't
on their roster. You know, you had a couple older veterans,
Emily Sonnett was playing, but there was no Crystal Dunn,
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there was no Lindsay Heaps, there was no obviously no
Trinity Sophia. Now, but you have these other players, these
younger players, Sam Coffee, Naomi Germa that are really coming in.
They're putting the captain's arm band on, Lynn Biandola who
are putting the captain's arm ban on, and they are
leading this team to for nothing. For nothing three nothing
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finishes against good teams with good players.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
And I'm all about it.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I'm all about Baby Chino, I'm all about this new
line that we have. I'm all about the youth movement.
We had to keep Trinity.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
We have to keep Trinity. She's the star. She's got stay.
You like, twenty three years old, you can't. Yeah, and
Trinity will be back.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Trinity will. The thing is is that Trinity's coming back
from a soccer injury. She's she's still playing through it.
They're coming back from maternity leave. There's been other players
that have have left side. LaRue very notably, was a
young player who had you know, kind of the nobody
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really ever saw her not being a part of the
national team roster. And then she went and she had
a kid, and then she didn't come back and play
again on the national team. You know, she won a
World Cup and then we didn't see her again. You
also have other players like Crystal Dunn who have come
back from eternity and who have made it back on
to the team. So you know, do I don't. I
think there's no really anecdotal evidence to say it's going
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to go one way or the other. It all just
depends on how they come back and how they rehab.
But I think it's more so that in that time
that they're gone, there are players that are coming in
and are earning those spot And I don't think it's
about as a matter of them losing their spots. I
think it's a matter of you have these younger, more
versatile players coming in and earning them.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Tough decisions for m is very very tough.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I mean, yeah, what a hard world that she has
to pick between all this talent, I know, and.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
What what hard work do we have to deal with
one another all this talent?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Sarah Tchovnik, I think that's about sums it up for
our US women's national team.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I think it does, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Hey? I think.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Did you, by the way, did you pass out stickers
and are flyers did to the to the coustunity?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
How do they react to it?
Speaker 4 (27:44):
I think I scared a few people, probably.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Because your headband.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
No, I took that off. I didn't wear it. It
was too gay, it was too gay looking.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I think I just got a little bit like, Ooh,
I'm not We're not going to rambow into this.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Think baby, I'm I'm proud to be an American soccer fan. Yeah,
but walking around DC with that much red, white and
blue on these days sends the wrong message.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
So, yeah, you didn't want to get invited to an
NRA meeting or to January sixth, They I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
We want we want you to.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Uh, we want to didn't want to get an editing
the Capitol.
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Speaker 1 (28:33):
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Speaker 2 (28:37):
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Speaker 1 (28:42):
On the ground from some of these events.
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And in order to do all that, uh and give
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Speaker 1 (28:54):
You so much and we'll see you again next week.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Am I hot or I gave anything out wrong?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
This is my world.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I make big moves and my big heals since the
day think I was born. I mean I make kill
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Today on Let Her Shoot, we're just doing it all
women's national team conversation.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We had multiple friendlies, so she's still with me.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The episode just a little a mose booge for you
all soccer, the entire EPA.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I'm a hot girl. I gave anything I want. This
is my world. I make big moves in my big hues.
Since I say that I was born, I've been a
big deal.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It was fine, okay, so we got leve level up,
level up three two.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Welcome to Let Her Shoot.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Uh. The only podcast that covers women's sports the way
that we want them cover, which is no bullshit, no
kid gloves, just respects for the athlete and the fans
and the US and.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
All the reasons to stay locked in.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I am in a conference room, Sarah, because people who
do they think they are, they're just using the podcast room.
It's basically mine, even though it's not mine.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Sarah Chovnik is here.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Two times Emmy Award winning producer Tristic Craig zero time
Emmy Award winning quote unquote talent the quote unquote is.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Doing a lot of legwork here, not doing some heavy lifting.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
The quote heavy heavy lifting.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Ollie Ollie is headed for What kind of award would
Allie get if he was going to get one of
the time one of the egots.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You know, he's getting Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
No an egot would he get? Otmyre you getting Emmy.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
For He's given me Tony. He's given me Tony Tony.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I agree, he's a little sweet. We have a special
US National Team episode for you, breaking down the last
few friendlies. This friendly Sarah was.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
At, so we're gonna talk a lot about that one
US versus Canada in the d m V.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
It was hot?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Does fish greasee out? So, Sarah, how are you feeling well?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I'm happy that I didn't get so dehydrated that I
didn't make it to this show because it was quite
toasty out there. I'm on an intentionally wearing this today
on ironically, I didn't even mean to. But it was
all USA. I mean it was big uppercase letters USA
at that game last night. I'll tell you what, I
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have never been in an environment like that for a
women's sporting event in my entire life. There were almost
twenty thousand people there in rowdy audi which if you've
never been to a game in Audi, then you need
to because Audi is probably one of the best venues
for a women's sporting event. It's the way it's so
steep that like the sound just like reverberates, and it
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was so exciting. It was so exciting to be there,
and I was a little nervous because like five minutes
before kickoff there was you know, it was like half
the stadium was full, and I was like, oh, this
is a sellout crowd. I thought that there were gonna
be more people there, and then I looked up at
one point because I heard the roar. Seventeen minutes in,
we get a Sam Coffee goal off of a corner
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kick and the roar was like, I mean, it was
like a college football game.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It was just like Katy Perry. It was like Katy Perry.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Do people oh like the song roar?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, I don't. No, we're not fucking with Katy Perry.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
No, I mean I am, but you know she's saying
is she's definitely.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
By by the way, Katy Perry.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I don't know if you ever saw her when she
was on American Idol, but she was always flirting with
the girlies.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Katie Perry's her debut song is I kissed a girl.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So yeah, but then you can easily say that she's
one of those fake bye girls. Yeah, literally just to
try it though, she could be one of those fake
fake girls, and just I just wanted to make my
boyfriend happy, and so I tongued the girl down.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
You got not even two days out of Pride and
you're already coming for the bisexuals.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Somebody said why they really quickly before sorry side road,
that they shouldn't have traded the listen during Pride.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
It was homophobic.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
That's homophobic behavior, is to trade and listen during Pride. Anyway,
back to the soccer, So a couple other observations that
I've had is that there were so one thing that
surprised me actually going back to Pride for a second,
was it used to be because I've been I've been
going to women's sporting events right now for I don't
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know a long time.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I went to a long pause.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
It was, I mean, because I'm trying to think, like,
I've been going to NWSL games since the end of
USL was birthed in the early twenty tens, and I've
been going to women's basketball events. I've gone to a
lot of different women's sporting events, and typically what you
would see in the past is that the majority of
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the fan base that is in the state is the
LGBT community. Like that is that is what it's always
we don't do Q.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
We don't do the Q anymore, LGBTQ plus okay anyway,
So it usually was the gays. It has always been.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
That's always been the fan base at these stadiums. I
was surprised and like, it actually really made me smile,
which is a weird This is going to be sound
like a weird sentence to see how many men were there,
and how many men were with their daughters that were
there or that were just with their girlfriends or their
(05:37):
wives or whatever that were just like in their rose
level jersey and in their Lindsay Heaps jersey and with
their face paint on. And I was like, you know what,
this is really cool to see because this isn't being
treated like an exhibition. It's being treated like a real
sporting event, like a real die hard fans painting their faces,
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getting their jersey, getting their beers, paying attention to the game.
It wasn't just oh, this is a fun thing for
us to do. Like this was real fans in a
stadium watching a game yelling at the refs for a
card that they should have thought that they thought should
have been given.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Or yelling for I saw that that was a bad tackle,
that was really bad, that should have been a card.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I was sitting next to Sam and like, Yo, that's
that's out of pocket.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I gotta say so so Sam, for anyone who doesn't know,
my fiance is a former soccer player who is from Canada.
She's a Canadian and so she heard her roots are
not with the US national team, they're with Canada, and
so she was probably.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Immigrated.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
That's actually a part of the immigration test is that
you have to name us.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Name US and US women's national team players and your
favorite things about them. Until you can't do that for US,
you're not getting in.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Name the starting name, our starting roster, and if you
can't do it, you're not allowed to come in. So
she was sitting there and every time there would be
like a hard tackle. There was one really early on
in the game, and I think it was I'm trying
to remember who it was. I think it was Heidema
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and she just like body checks her out of bounds
and I looked over at Sam immediately and she goes, no,
you didn't see that. You didn't see that. This game,
this is just how this game is gonna go. This
game is chippy. Canada and the US are chippy. There
are chippy game. I mean, you're always gonna I loved that,
by the way, that all states sponsored it and called
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it the Continental Classico or whatever it was like, which
is funny because that's like Spanish, and yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I had a really quick side road again.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I had a guy who replaced me when I left
my radio show, and he's always using Spanish terms.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And I'm like, is Brad Latino? He's like, oh la,
oh miga, like get your surveces, and I'm like, why
is Brad saying all this? Like Spanish name was Brad?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Brad?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Like named Brad?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
What are you doing anyway? So it was shippy.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
They don't like each other, they don't like These teams
don't like each other. I asked Sam, Hey, why don't
these teams like each other? And her answer was just
because they just don't.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, it's kind of like Romeo and Juliet and the
neighbors were neighbors, but like.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The Montagues what is it? And the Managues and the something.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
The capulates and it's like, yo, these two families just
don't fuck with each other.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
We don't even know where it starts, where it goes back.
It's probably when we invaded them.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I think it's from when they abandoned us during the
you know, the Revolutionary War and said no, we're going
to stay with England.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So well, that's what I mean. It's like it doesn't
I think it goes back to like English ties.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Like way back. Yeah, there's still they're still monarchy where
they're still monarchy and we don't they but you know
what's funny is like they think we want to be them,
and we think they want to be us, and like
we know, we know they want to be us. I
don't know that they want to right now, well not
right now, but like not right now.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Historically, maybe there's no Love Island Canada, okay.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
And they're never will be They're never Oh what would
it even be?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Oh way could I for they're not British.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Oh that's what they say.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
You know, hey, but you did an accent.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
No, I mean, I'm trying to distinguish you. It's like Fargo. Sorry,
boot sry sorry. See exactly anyway, they want to do
back our stuff. They want our culture, our pop culture,
our music, our fashion. They literally want stevery. They don't
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they yeah, they don't want to be their own thing.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
We don't.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
And we know that they're thieves because don't forget that
they cheated at the Olympics and that was why they
have to have a new coach now who By the way,
I want to go back. I want to back up
a little bit. So Canada sure that. So Canada and
the US have always had a tough back and forth rivalry.
It the last two Olympics have really added to this.
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You know, Canada won gold at the twenty twenty played
in twenty twenty one Olympics, and the US won gold
at the last Olympics. And if you don't really remember,
because this was a before the tournament started, but right
before the Olympics started, Canada got busted flying a drone
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over New Zealand's practice. After that, they got you know,
they got penalized. They had to really work their way
through the pool play in order to make it to
the semi finals. They did, which was super impressive. Because
no one really thought they could. They had to essentially
go undefeated in pool play, and their coach was ended
(11:09):
up being fired. They ended up hiring a new coach
more recently, Casey Stony, who had been at the San
Diego Wave. Her leaving the Wave was a little bit
like no one really knew what was going on. It
was a little bit I don't really know what's happening here.
So she gets fired and then like a couple weeks later,
Alex Morgan just suddenly retires and there's a lot going on.
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So there was a lot of n She's a good coach.
Though she's a good coach, she's kind of in that
she's from England, so she's a little bit in that
Emma Hayes world of like her mindset, her mentality of coaching.
And I think that she really is a great coach
for Canada to bring their program back and get them
out of kind of this stigma that they've had now
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with the whole cheating allegations and having to get rid
of their coaching staff. So I think Casey Stony is
a really good fit for them. She was not happy
with this outcome. Yesterday she was put in plane three nothing,
three nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It was.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
An as it was an a belt to ask, belt
to ask, and it was a good game. It didn't
feel like it should have been a belt to ask.
All of the US goals came off of set pieces.
There was a corner kick, there was a free kick,
and there was a throw in, so all three of those,
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which historically is what Canada is really really good at,
and what they did not capitalize off of. And I
think that was what Casey Stony was not so happy about,
was the set pieces. Scoring on set pieces and also
defending set pieces is what Canada is known for, and
that was what their weakness was yesterday. They didn't I
don't even know that they had a they ran a
(12:54):
set piece, now that I'm thinking about it, I can't
remember watching them kick a corner or a penalty kick
at all yesterday. So now I'll give them the credit.
Had they there were a lot of opportunities for it
to have gone even more out of hand than it did.
It could have been sick nothing if a couple of these.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
You know, their defense is one that hit the crossbar.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, their goals Kayln Sheridan is one of the top
goals like she's really really good. But then they have
some like questionable players that I think there's been a
there's been some frustration for Canadian fans on certain players
that are getting into the lineup and and you know,
maybe they need to bring in some younger players as
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well in the way that the US has been doing.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
So they're washed. You're saying that these Canadians are saying
that they're washed. No, I'm not saying what are the
Canadians saying? The saying that they're washed.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I think that they're just there's they're having a long
in the tooth. No, they're having some I think they're
having some difficulty getting balls into the back of the net.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Well, that's kind of thing, is they're really.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, it's just kind of if you look at like
a pyramid of strength, right, like their strength is defense
and then their midfield and then their weakest part. But
their weakest spot is their offense.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Like our men's US national team. Correct, But that's very frustrating.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, Like they're like the men's US national team where
it's like, yo, could we get a guy that could
put the fucking ball in the net?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Correct? I think frustration.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Polistic being the only thing. So yeah, I can get
what Canada is saying.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
You know, some of these going and pulling younger players
out of the NWSL or now they have the Northern
Super League that they can come and pull younger players
out of and start developing them. The US has really
kind of found this in putting younger talent on the field.
I think we've been seeing that. We saw Claire Hutton,
Izzy Rodriguez both were first time scorers. Avery Patterson, Sam
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Coffee scored twice in these three games. Alyssa Thompson has
been every time she got the ball last night, it
was like she's gonna she's gonna score, she's gonna say something.
It was like you could feel the energy in the
air when Alyssa touched the ball. It was like everyone
just like moved forward on their chair, you know, because
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it's like, oh, here it comes, it's coming.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
He looks coming far. I mean, I think what I
saw was that it looked like the time of possession.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And I didn't see what this actually was, but it
just looked like Canada couldn't get their foot on a
ball for more than five to.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Ten seconds before the US took possession back. And it
felt like.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Almost like a like international Spanish type of national league
play where we were just on the attack until maybe
like the eightieth minute, eighty fourth minute or something like,
but we were just down their throat.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
That's how we play them, that's how you play them.
We don't give them a lot of space.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And I like that. That's the kind of soccer.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's the kind of football that I won our country
to be putting in place. And I think also to
your point, so many young players that were shining where
I'm not even aware of who some of them are,
and I'm like, oh, we can't get rid of heard
she's she's sick, or oh I can't get rid of
she's too good.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, she's way too good.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
And we had multiple players who are staples of the
US women's national team that didn't play. And my question
for you is, are they kind of getting get edged
out when we have like a final roster decision.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
It's hard because lindsay.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Leave out Trinity. I'm not saying that, no, but.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I do think that. And this was sort of a
comment I made early on uh earlier on like a
couple months ago, was mal and Sophia are both out
from maternity they're both you know, we don't know when
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they're coming back, right, we'd have no idea. We haven't
seen malplay or Sophia play in several months, you know,
we have not seen them with the team. We've not
seen them with their club teams. We don't know what
they're coming back with. They are still so young, Like,
they're still so young, they're still in their mid twenties.
I think a lot of people forget that Mal is
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that young because she started on the team like at
the age of sixteen, so we've been watching her for
ten years. So I think people forget that Mal is
still only twenty seven because we've been watching her for
so many years. Trinity has had more of a newer introduction,
but she's still early twenties. Same with Sophia. So I
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will say though that my hot take is that I
don't know, and I would venture to say I do
not believe that we will ever see the Triple Espresso
play together on a national team again. Maybe they'll all
be on a roster at one point, but I don't
necessarily know that I ever see that starting three be
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the staple of the team. So we're saying goodbye to
the triple Espresso. But we are saying hello to the
baby Chino, who is the Thompson, Giselle Thompson and Croy Bethune,
which they are the future. They are the future of
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this team. I also think there are players like Lindsay
Heaps who are getting older and are you know, yes,
she is a foundational backbone of this team and the
structure of this team in the locker room. But I
think one of the big problems with Vlacko, the coach
before Emma, was his reluctance to start moving around players
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who had made maybe kind of gone past their prime
and continue to play players because of their pedigree. And
that was a big criticism of the last World Cup
was does Megan Rapino need to be on the field
because there were a lot of people who believed that
there was younger, fresher legs that could have been on
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the field taking those penalty kicks that wouldn't have knocked
us out. And I think that that But then there's
the other side of it of like do you want
the pedigree because act like you've been there before. Experience
is key, and so having a player like a Repino
back at that World Cup or having a Heaps going forward,
or a Trinity or a Sophia or a male who
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have that ability to teach these kids how it is
that you perform on the stage because it is a
huge stage. There are just twenty thousand people at your games.
You know, this is not the big leagues. It's as
big as you get. So I think there's a delicate balance,
and I think Emma Hayes is really figuring that out.
And I think where a lot of us have scratched
our heads being like, wow, she is complaying a completely
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different starting lineup tonight than she did the night before,
which was different than the night before that, like, and
it's different every time.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
This quote's crazy is she's like, how stacked are you
when you have a totally different starting group every four days?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Like you're literally like, I don't want so and so
to play. I don't want Rose level to play except
for every four days. It's like, oh, wow, we must be.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Really deep to have confidence doing that, especially against the
team like Canada where the rivalry is really huge, and
losing off home soil in Washington, DC would have been
if it would.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Have been on fourth of July weekend, on fourth of
July weekend. God forbid we lose that match three zero.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Yeah, you can't. You can't lose that match. One of
my favorite moments of the entire night. In about like
the eighty fifth minute, the crowd starts chanting, we want Tara,
We want Tara. Who is Tara Mickeon and she is
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a Washington Spirit player, so you know, half the crowd
was there as Spirit fans, and she gets subbed on.
She plays the last few minutes, she comes into a
standing ovation and she has got an assist at the
eighty ninth minute, which was It's just a really cool
moment to see for women's sports, like chanting that they
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want a player on the field. And it was her
birthday too, so shout out to her her happy birthday.
What a great birthday present. Playing on her home field
on her birthday for her national team on fourth of
July weekend. I feel like there's probably not any experience
that gets much better than that.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
That's cutting onions right there, that's cutting onions. That's like
gives you chills. Uh Lynn, do I pronounce it? Dian
doola bandola and bandola.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
She's a beast.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
She's oh yeah, like it's she's like you know again,
because I'm just coming in here with fresh eyes.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You just you're like, oh, who was that?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh yeah, she's really good. It's like when I first
experienced Marta for the first time, I'm like, oh, yeah,
she's Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
She's the one. You don't need to really know a
lot to know she's the one. That's how I felt
about watching Bandola.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, she's fine. I saw. There's like a lot of
people think that like when she gets her leg wrap on,
that like that's when she gets the Asia leg wrap on.
You know, that's that's like we're getting into it now.
And so someone was like, oh, no, here we go,
uh leg wrap. Lynn is out there. She's a blast
to watch. She was one that, like, for a long
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time under Vlaco was not getting the looks that she
should have been getting. And that was one of the
things that I think Emma Hayes has done is bring
her in and get her involved in the in the
rotation because she is one of those players that is
so electric when she she's so fast. So I think
Lynn is one of those one of those players that
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you know, she's gotten moved around a little bit in
the NWSL teams. You know, I think finding her place.
She's really come into herself a little bit later in
her career, whereas you see some of these other ones
that were peaking in high school, like Alyssa Thompson. So
we're not peaking. We don't have no idea where Alyssa
Thompson's peak is. I mean, we could still be scary
base of yeah, we could still be at the base
(23:32):
of her talent. We don't even know yet. All I
know is my god, she is fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, she's obviously one of those players where she's what
is she like nineteen? She's scary to watch her carry
You're like, what could you be? You could be.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Everything for us? And you're right, you look at like
what this team could be, and like what Emma Hayes
has done, like this is one of the most masterful
performance because honestly, we were starting to just roll out
the same old, same old, Like I was so tired
of seeing Alex Alex Morgan Rippino, you know, and and
(24:15):
this is fresh, this is fun, this is young, this
is gen z. They're doing TikTok dances. You got like
sisters on the team, you got first US women's national
team appearances, You know who we got a little little
action to see is ooh she bad, Naomi Germa.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We got to see her.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Out there, the secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Defense
aka someone that Sarah never brings up because because she
knows it's going to come out.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
With ooh she bad, ooh she bad. She'll be captain,
you know, she'll be the veteran that is leading that
back line for a decade, the next decade. You know,
there's no doubt about that. I don't think that this
is Naomi's team to lead going forward, Like I truly
believe that. And she had the captain's arm band last night.
(25:02):
Lynn had it the week before. And this is what
I mean, like we're starting to see a little bit
more responsibility dished out to these younger players. We're starting
to see Lindsay Heaps wasn't even on the roster for
these friendlies. There were a lot of players that weren't
on their roster. You know, you had a couple older veterans,
Emily Sonnett was playing, but there was no Crystal Dunn,
(25:23):
there was no Lindsay Heaps, there was no obviously no
Trinity Sophia. Now, but you have these other players, these
younger players, Sam Coffee, Naomi Germa that are really coming in.
They're putting the captain's arm band on, Lynn Biandola who
are putting the captain's arm ban on, and they are
leading this team to for nothing. For nothing three nothing
(25:43):
finishes against good teams with good players.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
And I'm all about it.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I'm all about Baby Chino, I'm all about this new
line that we have. I'm all about the youth movement.
We had to keep Trinity.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
We have to keep Trinity. She's the star. She's got stay.
You like, twenty three years old, you can't. Yeah, and
Trinity will be back.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Trinity will. The thing is is that Trinity's coming back
from a soccer injury. She's she's still playing through it.
They're coming back from maternity leave. There's been other players
that have have left side. LaRue very notably, was a
young player who had you know, kind of the nobody
(26:26):
really ever saw her not being a part of the
national team roster. And then she went and she had
a kid, and then she didn't come back and play
again on the national team. You know, she won a
World Cup and then we didn't see her again. You
also have other players like Crystal Dunn who have come
back from eternity and who have made it back on
to the team. So you know, do I don't. I
think there's no really anecdotal evidence to say it's going
(26:48):
to go one way or the other. It all just
depends on how they come back and how they rehab.
But I think it's more so that in that time
that they're gone, there are players that are coming in
and are earning those spot And I don't think it's
about as a matter of them losing their spots. I
think it's a matter of you have these younger, more
versatile players coming in and earning them.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Tough decisions for m is very very tough.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I mean, yeah, what a hard world that she has
to pick between all this talent, I know, and.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
What what hard work do we have to deal with
one another all this talent?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Sarah Tchovnik, I think that's about sums it up for
our US women's national team.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
I think it does, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Hey? I think.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Did you, by the way, did you pass out stickers
and are flyers did to the to the coustunity?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
How do they react to it?
Speaker 4 (27:44):
I think I scared a few people, probably.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Because your headband.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
No, I took that off. I didn't wear it. It
was too gay, it was too gay looking.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I think I just got a little bit like, Ooh,
I'm not We're not going to rambow into this.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Think baby, I'm I'm proud to be an American soccer fan. Yeah,
but walking around DC with that much red, white and
blue on these days sends the wrong message.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
So, yeah, you didn't want to get invited to an
NRA meeting or to January sixth, They I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
We want we want you to.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Uh, we want to didn't want to get an editing
the Capitol.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah. We want to encourage everybody in the Costunity to
follow us and subscribe to our pot and our YouTube.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
This is what helps our Costunity grow. That's what we
all want.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
We want more episodes, we want more interviews with athletes,
we want to do stuff live.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
On the ground from some of these events.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
And in order to do all that, uh and give
you more content, we rely on you so definitely doing
that and thank.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You so much and we'll see you again next week.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Am I hot or I gave anything out wrong?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
This is my world.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I make big moves and my big heals since the
day think I was born. I mean I make kill
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