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The SoccerGirl Podcast

286. Becky Sauerbrunn on Motherhood, the UWSNT and Life After Soccer

The SoccerGirl Podcast

SoccerGirl

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5.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This week USWNT legend and World Cup champion Becky Sauerbrunn joins us! Becky talks leadership, motherhood, team culture, life after soccer, and the lessons she learned throughout her incredible career with the USWNT and NWSL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is your baby's pregame jams?

0:02.0

Whenever you can tell you just, once a little music or something, I panic and I can't think of any, like, childhood nursery rhymes.

0:09.0

And so I just go back to like, friends in low places, Garth Brooks, or like some boys to men.

0:14.0

We may laugh, we learn, we might be your game's with seven peas.

0:23.6

Hey guys, today we've got a very special guest. She's a true legend of the game,

0:25.6

someone we've all admired for a very long time.

0:28.6

It's a captain herself, Becky Sauerbrun.

0:31.6

We talked to Becky about captaining the national team,

0:34.6

making sure everyone has a voice and transitioning from playing to podcasting

0:38.8

and now to broadcasting. We also spent a little bit of time with Becky talking about what it's like

0:42.6

to be a new mom. She gave birth to her son Ronan last fall and as two moms ourselves, it was

0:47.2

awesome to connect with her on that level. I don't know how she does it, broadcasting and being a mom.

0:53.6

Like, kudos to her.

0:54.8

That is just unbelievable.

0:57.1

But she's doing an amazing job, just like everything she does.

1:00.1

Check it out.

1:01.3

Becky, I mean, you've captained the biggest team in the world.

1:04.8

What's been harder now, leading the U.S. women's national team or becoming a new mom?

1:09.5

Oh, gosh.

1:10.9

That's a tough one.

1:12.2

I mean, I think it would be easy to say becoming a new mom.

1:17.7

But honestly, I think captaining the national team probably was more difficult.

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