Bria Felicien, Creator of The Black Sportswoman

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Grant interviews Bria Felicien, the creator of The Black Sportswoman, which includes recent feature stories on Briana Scurry and Crystal Dunn. Felicien discusses her thoughts on the USWNT and the SheBelieves Cup, which starts on Thursday, and she also gets into a wide-ranging conversation on the NWSL, her journey and how to create pathways for more Black women soccer journalists. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. Frustrated that you can't get games from Spain's La Liga on your cable or satellite system? Sign up to stream Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in La Liga and other international leagues and tournaments live and on-demand from your mobile phone, tablet or directly on your TV with the Fanatiz app. Fanatiz features channels you know, like BeIN Sports in English and Spanish, GolTV and many more. And it costs only $7.99 a month. If you’d like to try Fanatiz for yourself, you can get a free week-long trial by going to fntz.co/Grant-FZ. 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, thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.9	Today's interview guest is Brea Felicienne, the creator of the Black Sports Woman Newsletter
0:18.4	with new features on Brianna Scurry and soon Crystal Dunn.
0:22.5	We've had some great guests lately, including Ivan Gazetus, Semra Hunter, and Lutz
0:28.5	Fanon Steel. I also encourage you to check out my podcast series, American Prodigy, the
0:34.4	Freddie and Do Story. All eight episodes are out, and you can binge all of them to your
0:40.0	heart's content. Now, here's my interview with Brea Felicienne.
0:46.3	Our guest now is Brea Felicienne. She's the Atlanta-based creator of the Black Sports Woman
0:52.9	Newsletter, whose mission is to amplify the stories of Black women athletes and sports.
0:59.1	She's also the managing editor of the next women's basketball newsroom,
1:04.4	and she has written about women's soccer for the Equalizer, 538, SB Nation, and the Black
1:10.7	Sports Woman, including a terrific recent story on the U.S. women's national team legend,
1:16.4	Brianna Scurry. Brea, thanks so much for coming on the show.
1:20.5	Thank you so much for having me. I'm super, super excited.
1:23.9	Lots to talk about here. Let's start with Ms. Brianna Scurry's story. I really liked it.
1:29.1	I remember writing a magazine story about Bri during the 99 Women's World Cup
1:35.2	the week before they won it all. And there are some things in your story that I didn't
1:41.1	realize until reading it, that Scurry is writing her memoir for publication in 2022,
1:48.4	and a few other things. What were some of the main takeaways you got from doing that story on her?
1:54.0	I think, oh, by the way, I did, I used your story for research, so that's pretty cool.
1:59.2	Awesome. But I think the biggest takeaway was one, I'm glad people noticed and realized that
2:09.2	bookstores and people are missing her story told in full, and I've realized that even more now.
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