Jill Ellis on Olympics preparations, Alex Morgan, and what she's writing in her notebook

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

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4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The summer of soccer continues in August as the Rio Olympics get underway, with the U.S. women's national team looking to follow up its 2015 World Cup title with Olympic gold. In advance of the tournament, SI senior writer Grant Wahl caught up with U.S. coach Jill Ellis for the Planet Futbol Podcast. In the interview, Ellis discusses the fitness status of Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd, and what having a full healthy Alex Morgan will do for the U.S. team in Rio. The coach also offers her theory of why it's been so hard for teams to pull off the Olympic-World Cup double, and what exactly it is she's writing so furiously in her notebook on the sideline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the Plano Football podcast is brought to you by T-Mobile.
0:04.0	See how T-Mobile has changed the game at the 2016 T-Mobile Home Run Derby.
0:09.0	Go to T-Mobile.com slash MLB to see how. We've got a great guest on today's Planet Football Podcast. She is the head coach of the
0:26.5	reigning World Cup champion US women's national team. Her US team will be
0:31.2	aiming to win its fourth straight Olympic gold medal when the tournament starts in Brazil on August 3rd.
0:37.3	She's Jill Ellis. Thanks for joining me, Joe.
0:39.6	My pleasure, Grant. Good to be here.
0:41.2	Great to be here. We're here in Chicago, before the South Africa Friendly.
0:45.6	You've got two friendlies to go before the Olympic tournament starts.
0:49.9	You're trying to become the first Women's World cup winner to come back the next year and
0:55.0	win the Olympic gold medal. Why do you think it has been so difficult for teams to
0:59.2	do the double in the past? Is it a mental thing or something else that's a great question because you know I think
1:06.8	we're we're obviously you know still turning over every stone and making sure that we're ready
1:12.0	but you know I think the
1:13.3	psychology piece is a part of it that you you know you get to the you get to the
1:17.1	summit of your sport and then the next year it's you know I think repeating is
1:20.2	hard in anything but I think in our sport it's you know the World Cup is the
1:25.0	premier event so I think now getting yourself
1:28.0	you know, back in position to do it again.
1:31.0	It is a long haul, you know, you you think about in terms of if you go back towards
1:35.9	World Cup qualifiers to now it's almost two years of non-stop our players are back in
1:41.8	the league and so I think I think the yeah the mental
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