Interview: Diana Matheson, Canada Women's National Team Stalwart on the Future of a Canadian League

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this episode Shireen Ahmed interviews Canada Women's National Soccer Team stalwart Diana Matheson, who is responsible for the game-winning goal in stoppage time to clinch the bronze medal for Canada in the 2012 Olympics. They discuss Diana's journey into playing professionally, the building of the Canadian program, an overdue professional league, and if, in fact, history was made right at the 2020/21 Olympics. 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	Flamethrowers, my friends you out, and I'll play with your
0:05.8	babies to the screaming shout, oh, yeah.
0:09.3	Flame throwers, my friends, I'm so happy to be talking to Canadian women's national soccer team stall
0:17.9	were literally the person responsible for our bronze medal in 2002
0:22.6	her feet rather we're queuing up here edge of the area mathison back in get the shot through
0:29.6	schmidt blocked off surely can they have gone to want it right at the death here and the goal scorer is
0:36.1	diana matheson 28 years of age.
0:39.9	Diana Matheson.
0:41.5	Recently retired, had been with the Canadian Women's Program since 2003,
0:46.3	professional player in the NWSL.
0:49.3	She is a fan of Peaches at the moment.
0:52.2	Dana is, among other things, an incredible advocate.
0:55.3	She was part of the first Canadian Women's National Team Union, which is incredibly
0:59.7	important, and an outspoken advocate of all things wonderful.
1:03.5	Welcome, Diana.
1:04.6	Hi, Shereen.
1:05.6	Thanks for having me.
1:06.7	Hi, burn it all down, crew.
1:08.7	She also hails from Oakville, Ontario, which is an important part of the conversation
1:12.4	we'll get into later, because I live not too far from there, and she is revered and loved
1:17.4	as she should be, and the cardboard cutout there was the most photographed cardboard cutout
1:22.6	in club history, and still remains that way.
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