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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In this episode, we chat with Kansas City Current forward Alex Pfeiffer about her incredible journey as one of the youngest players ever signed to the NWSL. Alex opens up about how a major injury became a turning point in her life—shaping her mindset, building her resilience, and helping her form deep friendships. We dive into the challenges she’s faced, how she stays positive through rehab, and what she’s learned about growth both on and off the field. Her story is a powerful reminder that setbacks can fuel comebacks!
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| 0:14.8 | i grew up in st louis okay cool so it's like three and a half hours from here, but yes, I did pretty much. It's a very similar city. That's good. So are you living with your family right now? My whole family decided to move up here. I have a younger brother, so my parents were kind of like, it's just easier to do it that way. So we did that and we moved into this house in August, but I was in an apartment with my mom the whole beginning of the year. That's amazing that your family is so supportive and I'm sure it's nice to all be together. Yeah, that's kind of what my parents wanted. They didn't really want me and my brother being apart. So we're all together now and yeah, it's been nice. Does he play soccer too um he used to but he kind of was |
| 0:56.5 | just like it's not really for me so he plays volleyball so yeah that's really fun to watch i really |
| 1:02.7 | didn't watch much of the sport like obviously i kind of played everything growing up but |
| 1:07.4 | watching him play volleyball it's really cool volleyball is a really fun sport to watch so how have you enjoyed playing at the current so far i've loved it like i just love being here i think for me it was just kind of like i kind of i went everywhere like i went to a lot of different places when i came here i like met black coat kind of before he signed and he just kind of hinted towards me that he was most likely he wanted to be in |
| 1:27.5 | kansas because that's where he's from and was going to sign here so for me you're just like |
| 1:30.9 | all the options he was giving me like with development and like now obviously of getting hurt but |
| 1:36.4 | like before that just like seeing everything like all the progress I had made and like what was to |
| 1:40.9 | come for me like that was just really exciting for me to see like taking |
| 1:44.6 | myself out of it getting injured so yeah definitely and um when you said you were going to a bunch |
| 1:51.6 | different place were you playing on different academies or like practicing with different |
| 1:55.1 | endosl teams i was practicing with different endosel teams like the end of summer of 2024 or 2023. |
| 2:04.1 | So I was, I went to San Diego. |
| 2:08.5 | And I also went to Gotham and North Carolina. |
| 2:14.7 | I feel like that's like almost like college recruiting, like trying out different, you know, |
| 2:19.5 | places and seeing what, what fit best for you. |
| 2:23.3 | Yeah, it was, it was fun, like getting just to see what environment was best for me, but, |
| 2:28.3 | yeah, it was a lot of traveling. |
| 2:30.3 | Besides Black, what really stuck out to you about like Kansas City like the |
| 2:34.8 | the current um like philosophy or like just their style or was there anything yeah I feel like |
| 2:41.8 | all like the like my teammates now like them like I feel like they obviously that was like a rough |
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