Hello! Welcome to Laughter Permitted World Cup Champs Week. I'm Julie Fowdy.

Alongside Lynn O'Zoey. How are we doing Lynn? Doing great tools ready for day four of

World Cup Champs Week. Up today we have Lynn. We're no longer on the pot. I'm

sad to announce. We are in our setting is the back. Again the team hotel this

time in Charlotte no longer Chicago and we're in a restaurant in the back of

the Omni. Correct? That's right we're in a back room of the restaurant at this

hotel. And this podcast is with two young stars of the US women's soccer team

Rose LeVel. You might have heard she had a very good World Cup and so did her

friend and midfield Sam Muiss. First World Cup for both of these players Rose

played collegially at the University of Wisconsin. Sam played at UCLA and in

particular Rose. I mean her journey to get back from injury. She was injured for

good year and a half almost two years in 2017-18 leading into the World Cup.

And for them to come to the World Cup their first ever and just crush it was so

fun to see because these are certifiably two stars on the national team and the

future of this team which gives me great hope because they are awesome women. So

get comfortable listening. It's Rose and Sam.

Rowling. Are you Rowling? Rowling. Okay so back in the day when I had the

the camera with the 99ers I would always ask a player to set the scene.

Set the scene where are we? What are we doing? So can you Sam or Rose set the scene?

Right here right now. Right here right now. We're sitting at a square table. There's

donuts in front of us. We always have donuts by the way. Oh okay that's a

thing. Oh that's fun. Yeah nice. We are in Charlotte, North Carolina. Oh good. It is

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