229. THE WORLD CUP WITH ABBY: Inside Her Most Stunning Moments & 2023 Predictions

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Self-improvement, Education, Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Time to HUDDLE UP, Pod Squad! Our most beloved The Soccer expert – Abby Wambach – prepares us for the World Cup, bringing us inside her personal rollercoaster journey through four World Cups: The real scoop behind her impossible, iconic goal against Brazil in 2011; The moments she will never forget from the brutal loss against Germany; How she *really* reacted when learning she would not be starting for the 2015 US Team; How we can ALL learn to lead from the bench; and What to expect in this year’s tournament. Plus, Abby delivers the pep talk we all need for this year’s World Cup. LFG, USA! About Abby: Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup Champion, and six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award. She was the United States’ leading scorer in the 2007 and 2011 Women’s World Cup tournaments and the 2004 and 2012 Olympics. She is a part owner of Angel City FC, the first majority-female-owned soccer team in history. Abby lives in California with her wife and their three children. TW: @AbbyWambach IG: @abbywambach

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0:00.0	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:13.2	This is what we are calling World Cup Week.
0:19.1	Ooh, okay, because...
0:21.0	My jam.
0:22.0	We are going to get the pod squad completely ready for the most exciting, important
0:29.9	sporting situation event, event on the planet, okay?
0:38.6	The most important and exciting sporting event on the planet is coming up and the pod squad
0:46.6	needs to be ready.
0:48.2	So what you need to know pod squad is that in preparation, I did sit down with Abby at
0:53.8	a table and said, I really think it's important that we highlight the shit out of the World
0:59.0	Cup.
1:00.2	And so I want to brainstorm who we should have on to talk about the World Cup.
1:05.5	And Abby Wombok did sit with me for 20 minutes.
1:09.4	I said, I want somebody who knows the ins and outs.
1:11.7	I want somebody who has been there, who has had the highs, who has had the lows, who will
1:15.8	take us into the moments of the World Cup.
1:18.4	Obviously, we already had Rapinoe.
1:20.6	We're going to bring on the precious warrior, Sophia Smith.
1:24.6	After, yeah.
1:25.6	We took 20 minutes, but Abby did say, I've been to the World Cup.
1:33.4	What about me?
1:34.4	And I've gotten coach.
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