Interview: Ashley Lawrence, CWNT Gold Medalist and Ballon d'Or Finalist

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this episode Shireen Ahmed interviews Ashley Lawrence, a member of the gold-medal winning Canadian national soccer team. She currently plays for PSG in France and a finalist for both the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2021 and the prestigious Ballon d'Or award. 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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0:00.0	Hey, Flamethrowers, to have Ashley Lawrence on the show today.
0:05.0	I'm so excited to have Ashley Lawrence on the show today.
0:16.0	For those of you that don't know her, Ashley is a Canadian soccer player who plays for Paris
0:20.9	Saint-Germain in Division I Feminine. She also plays for the Canadian women's national team
0:25.9	where she had a sensational gold medal performance at the Tokyo Olympics. And from her gold medal
0:31.6	win in Tokyo to being a finalist of this year's Ballandor, it is clear her fighting spirit and passion for soccer goes far beyond
0:40.2	the field. In addition to being a Tim Horton's connoisseur, she is also a source of inspiration,
0:47.0	and her dedication to supporting and encouraging the next generation of young girls and women in sports
0:52.7	is very evident.
0:59.0	Thank you. the next generation of young girls and women in sports is very evident. Hello.
1:00.2	Hello, Ashley.
1:01.0	I know we were limited on time.
1:03.2	Hello.
1:03.7	Thank you for having me.
1:04.7	I actually wrote a piece about you for Shadalene before the Olympics.
1:09.5	And it was very easy for me to decide to write about you. So thank you so much
1:14.1	for being on Burn It All Down. And my first question to you, it must have been tough to miss the
1:19.0	victory tour, but how are you feeling now? Yeah, it definitely was tough. But I was kind of dealing
1:26.8	with like a minor thing. So just being with my club in Canada,
1:32.1	we decided it would just be best to not do the long travel. But I'm feeling much better now.
1:37.8	And yeah, looking forward to our next game against Real Madrid. So you're right now, you're not at home.
1:45.4	You're in Paris.
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