Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. Today our guest is Jenny Chu, one of the most recognizable faces on television for fans of

US soccer over the past years she covered men's World Cup qualifiers for CBS on the sideline from

Kingston and San Juan, among other places she was also a sideline reporter for CBS in the

Champions League, including at the final in Paris when Real Madrid defeated

Liverpool and she covered the Kondkaf W championship this past summer.

Been a busy year for her.

She was born and raised in El Paso.

Jenny, welcome. Thank you guys. That was a great intro. When you were a young

girl, your dad would come to your soccer games. You told this story recently and read the newspaper and I and

I would love for you to tell the story of how he like sort of the moment where he sort of realized that you were good at soccer.

So we put us in all sports. We played all different kinds of sports and he did not pay attention at all.

Wight, read the newspaper, did not care. The idea was like to keep us away from drugs and like give us something to do. So he didn't care about like whether we were good athletes or not.

And he would sit in the way back, whatever. All of a sudden like there was a huge cheering like all the parents were standing up and yelling and cheering like kind of like moving along the sideline I don't know if I've been to like young soccer games like they're like moving along the sideline with the people and my dad is like what the heck

like what just happened and they're all screaming and stuff so my dad gets up and he's like hey

like what just happened and that girl was like super fast I guess like kind of like

ran past but he didn't see the girl he just saw

the action behind the parents and they were like what do you mean that was your daughter

and I had like ran past and like scored and stuff and he was in shock he was what? So he like started to pay attention finally because he had just been stuck in his newspapers and he was like oh wow she's like athletic she's kind of like really good at this. So I was the catalyst in getting my soccer to be a

soccer family because we did all kinds of sports and my dad I remember like the

walk up was the Westside Rec Center you know you guys aren't from Paso, but the walk up, my dad was like,

hey, you're like, you're pretty good, you have like some potential, like, do you want to take this seriously?

And I was like, yeah, sure, like not really understanding what I was committing to at that time, at all I was like yeah what sounds great and like very soon after I had like a private coach I had like I went to a specific gym to like be fitness and then I got moved to a boy's team like this whole thing happened like really quickly but my dad was like you have talent let's exploit it. Let's go all full throttle we're headed there so just from a moment like that he was

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