Jaden Shaw finds Thompson. Thompson fires. A banger shot for Melissa Thompson. It's Tuesday, but it's not a regular Tuesday.

Yes, it is Football W.

Yes, it is two-time World Cup champion, Ali Krieger, Jeff Kusuf.

Look who's here with us.

Let me give you the proper introduction, Crystal Dunn, that you deserve as you signed off

on your retirement announcement.

Former NWSL MVP golden boot

winner three-time shield winner, three-time champion, World Cup champion Olympic gold medalist.

Welcome to Football W. Thanks, guys. Welcome to ESPN. How are you? I'm great now that I'm sitting

here with you guys taking such good care of me. Thank you for that. But no, I mean, it's been a whole month since my retirement announcement and life has been good. I've been just living, you know, living it up and seeing and connecting with some amazing people I haven't seen in a while. And that's the beauty of now having a little bit more time on my hands. I saw a social media trend and I'll ask you this. It's not a curve ball. I told you I'm not going to throw you any gotcha questions. Okay. But what is what is a habit that you have let go of now that you had to keep, whether it be intense training, a lot of, I mean, we have to stay hydrated, right? but what is something that you've been like, ooh, this is kind of nice to not have to worry

about it anymore?

Okay, it would definitely have to be the working out aspect of my life.

I mean, I'm still super into like, you know, being healthy and taking good care of myself,

but to not have to do a prep exercise to push my body past its limits is like, I never thought I

would see this day, you know? And it's been really great. And I think the day to day is what

probably got, you know, harder later and later in my career. And I think to be able to wake up

and kind of just embrace my son and kind of not feel like I have to rush off somewhere has been

really the best part of retirement

so far.

I'll quote you too because I think it's perfect for this moment.

You said the life of a professional athlete can never truly be replicated but I'm excited

to continue impacting the game from a new perspective.

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