910. A Day in the Life of a Women's Professional Soccer Player, Abby Smith

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Abby Smith is a Professional Soccer Player in the National Women’s Soccer League based in the U.S. She is in her 5th overall season and her third with the Utah Royals FC located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Abby grew up in Dallas, Texas, playing for the Dallas Texans Soccer Club. In her youth and into her professional career, Abby has been able to participate in the United States National Team at all levels, including U15, U23 and most recently with the Senior National team.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison. Every Monday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love
0:22.4	to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. On Fridays, I interview an individual
0:28.4	with many years of experience from one of the most popular occupations or professions who
0:33.6	shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.
0:43.7	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Abby Smith, and our topic, A Day in the Life.
0:46.5	What's it really like to be a professional soccer player?
0:47.8	Welcome, Abby.
0:50.3	Hi, thank you for having me.
0:51.8	It is our pleasure.
0:56.0	Abby, are you using your talents doing work that you love? Yes. Yes,
1:01.9	I am. All righty. We certainly want to hear this whole story. Abby Smith is a professional soccer player and the National Women's Soccer League based in the U.S. She's in her fifth overall season
1:08.0	and her third with the Utah Royals located in Salt Lake City, Utah. She grew up in Dallas,
1:14.1	Texas, playing for the Dallas Texan soccer club. In her youth and into her professional career,
1:20.3	Abby has been able to participate in the United States national teams at all levels, including
1:25.5	under 15 to under 23, and most recently with a senior national team.
1:31.2	Well, as we discussed earlier, Abby, I'm going to give a few overview statistics for your
1:35.6	occupation of being a professional soccer player. This is from the various sources that we have
1:40.3	researched in the last couple of days. The U.S. is one of the top countries in the world for women's soccer. Its national team was number one in the world in 2015 and 2019,
1:51.3	and it was established in 2012 as successor to the women's professional soccer league.
1:56.3	There are nine teams in the league, and a typical season goes from April to August or September with 24
2:01.4	games, 12 at home, and 12 on the road. I also got some statistics from another study that shows that
2:09.1	the U.S. women's soccer games have generated more revenues than U.S. men's games over a three-year
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