Interview: Sam Coffey and Ellie Jean on their first NWSL Season

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Amira Rose Davis interviews her former students, Ellie Jean of Gotham FC and Sam Coffey of the Portland Thorns, about their first season in the NWSL. They also talk about how their college journey impacted who they are now and their goals for the future.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Burn it all right.
0:03.0	And I'm soaps you up.
0:03.4	I'm here.
0:04.5	I'm so screaming shout.
0:08.4	Oh, yeah.
0:09.7	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the sports podcast you need.
0:14.1	Hey, Flamethrowers, Amir here.
0:16.5	I am so, so excited for the conversation I'm about to have because I called up two of my
0:23.1	favorite people in the world, Ellie Jean and Sam Coffey, to wrap up this NWSL season.
0:29.1	We are recording it before a playoff start, but the regular season is over.
0:32.6	I wanted to check in on them about their first year in the NWSL.
0:36.6	And it has been a wild year. What a year to come into
0:40.1	this league. We've had historic CBAs in women's soccer that has changed from the federation level
0:45.3	to the NWSL. Of course, the Gates report just dropped. There's a lot of things happening.
0:51.4	And it is a wild time to start your career in this league. So I wanted to welcome
0:56.7	them. Well, welcome Ellie back to the show and welcome Sam to the show. So we could talk about,
1:02.0	you know, being a professional soccer player because I remember when they were just not. They
1:07.8	were so adorable. And now they're grown. You're all, you were adorable amateurs.
1:13.5	And now you're like super grown. Part of the reason why I'm super excited about this. And I, you know,
1:18.2	everybody who listens to this show knows how much I love you guys and how much I am a fan of y'all
1:24.1	and always have been. But it's, it's been so exciting to watch your individual journeys and really sweet this year
1:32.2	to watch them criss-cross, even though you managed to avoid playing each other all year,
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