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Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Becky Sauerbrunn Interview

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Grant has a lively interview with Becky Sauerbrunn, the two-time World Cup-winning defender for the USWNT and Portland Thorns. Sauerbrunn discusses why she chose to honor Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her U.S. jersey last year and the letter she received from RBG; how she has responded to the challenges of 2020; her role in the APPRECIATE EXCELLENCE response apparel to the racism and misogyny of those who ran her former club, the Utah Royals; how she's feeling about the USWNT ahead of its upcoming camp; and what she thinks white players need to do to support the Black Lives Matter movement. Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIhXWUw0H4 Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0

Hey there, welcome to football with Grant Wall.

0:09.7

Thanks so much for joining me.

0:11.3

Today's interview guest is two-time World Cup winner, Becky

0:16.0

Sourbren. We've had some great interview guests lately including Giorana, Fabrizio Romano, and Kyle Martino, along with many others.

0:25.8

So check those interviews out.

0:27.5

It would be absolutely huge for this podcast's growth.

0:30.5

If you could subscribe, recommend us to your friends and take just a little time to rate and

0:35.5

review us in Apple Podcasts. Now here's my interview with Becky Sowerburn.

0:43.2

Our guest now is Becky Sowerburn. Our guest now is Becky Sowerburn, a two-time World Cup winner for the U.S. Women's National

0:49.0

team and a defender for the Portland Thorns who meet

0:53.0

O.L. Rain on Saturday in the Seattle area

0:56.4

at 8 p.m. Eastern on Twitch.

0:59.3

Becky, thanks so much for coming on the show.

1:01.4

Yeah, thanks for having me again. Yeah, it's good to have you back. We're

1:04.7

going to talk plenty about soccer here, but I want to start off by asking you a question about

1:10.9

someone who is special to you.

1:13.0

Last year, the U.S. women's national team players honored women who were important to them

1:18.0

by wearing the names of those women on the back of your jerseys. And you chose Supreme Court Justice

1:26.5

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and we lost RBG recently and I was wondering what went into your decision to choose RBG in that moment for your Jersey and how you felt when she wrote back to you to thank you for it.

1:43.5

I chose RBG a lot of because what we were going through as a team at the time

1:48.2

was a lawsuit about gender equality.

1:50.8

And so to pick a woman who spent her entire career fighting for that,

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