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Hot Take: Melissa Ortiz, Former Footballer for the Colombian Women's National Team

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Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5729 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this interview Brenda Elsey is joined by Melissa Ortiz, Olympian, analyst, former professional footballer and member of the Colombian Women's National Team.  They discuss the importance of athletes speaking out against recent police violence against protesters in Colombia and the reality of the women's professional league in Colombia, contrary to a viral advertisement. Melissa also talks about her new role as an analyst for Fubo TV and coffee company called Kick Off Coffee Co.   This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I am so excited today to catch up with Melissa Ortiz, the former Olympian and professional footballer,

0:59.3

also representative of the national team for Colombia, and now an analyst for Fubo's coverage

1:07.0

of the eliminatorias that Comebawal qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup. We're also going to

1:13.2

talk to her about her exciting new project, Kickoff Coffee. Melissa, thank you so much for

1:19.3

joining us and welcome to Burn It All Down. Thank you, Brenda. Super pumped to be part of this

1:24.9

program and dive into different topics, maybe controversial, but always great

1:30.6

to chat about. That's our, that's our forte here. That's sort of name with a game. So we,

1:38.3

we invite any controversy here, celebrate it. So I obviously the last couple of weeks, we've seen massive protests

1:49.0

in Colombia. It's very distressing. For our listeners that don't know much about the situation,

1:55.1

do you think you could just give them a basic primer? Yeah. So the current president in Colombia, his name is President Deuke,

2:03.5

duke, is his last name. He's been in office as a more recent, and this isn't the first

2:09.5

go-around of protests and mass protests, but as of two weeks ago, the end of April,

2:15.7

he tried to do a tax reform in the midst of a pandemic,

2:20.9

in the midst of not only pandemic, but like one of the hardest economic situations the

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