What's the ultimate purpose of this?

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The ultimate purpose of this was to build a strong woman.

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What's up, everyone? Today on the pod, we've got something a little bit different.

We usually talk to soccer girls, but today we are talking to a soccer dad.

David Murray is an award-winning

journalist and writer who happens to have a daughter who earned a Division I scholarship to Ohio

University. In his new book, Soccer Dad, he reflects on a common journey for a lot of American

parents and children from rec soccer all the way through high-level training teams and even

into Division I. We talked to David about how to navigate difficult moments how the

game helped him connect to his daughter and some of the issues facing players and parents today

it was such a great and unique conversation and we're really excited for everyone to hear it

so grab your dad grab a parent any parents out there go grab your kids and enjoy also you'll see

i grabbed my own kid during the interview. She's going to

pop in and out. So enjoy. Well, we would love to start this pot off. We do giving a little bit of an

intro about yourself, a little bit of an intro about your life and your dynamic as a soccer

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