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The RE—CAP Show with Tobin Heath and Christen Press

REwind: The Little Magician with Alyssa Thompson

The RE—CAP Show with Tobin Heath and Christen Press

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4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In a special REwind edition of TRS, Tobin and Christen revisit one of their first TRS interviews with none other than Chelsea’s newest star Alyssa Thompson. CP reflects on her time with Alyssa on ACFC, and Tobin lets us know what players should be on our radar. New episodes every week. Watch the video version of the show on YouTube. Sign up for our newsletter, The RE—SET:  https://re-website.com/pages/newsletter Follow RE: https://www.instagram.com/re__inc/ https://www.tiktok.com/@re__inc https://twitter.com/re__inc https://www.threads.net/@re__inc   Follow Tobin: https://www.instagram.com/tobinheath https://twitter.com/TobinHeath   Follow Christen: https://www.instagram.com/christenpress https://twitter.com/ChristenPress To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

2015 World Cup poster and you put your faces on it. So Kristen and I were wondering, whose faces

0:08.6

did you cover? Welcome back to the recap show. We are so happy to be here. And just before we started recording,

0:23.6

Tobin let me know that she expected me to lead and carry the entire episode. So good luck to me.

0:30.7

Good luck. That's it. No defense. No. This week, we decided to do things a little bit different.

0:40.0

We always want to keep you on your toes here on TRS.

0:43.8

So we, for the very first time, are throwing back to one of our first episodes we ever recorded.

0:51.3

Obviously, it has made a lot of noise that Alyssa has left us at Angel City and gone

0:55.7

across the pond to play for Chelsea. And we've had Alyssa on the show twice. And the first time,

1:02.2

it felt like she was a new player on the scene. And she had just come back from the World Cup.

1:09.6

And she and I did not know each other because I was out with my ACL.

1:13.6

She was quite nervous, I remember, and she was just a young duckling, and she's made so much progress over these years and on her journey to Chelsea.

1:23.7

So we're going to revisit some of the best bits of that episode. Let's do it.

1:29.6

But, you know, Tobin and I over the last few weeks have been reflecting on our friendship with

1:35.8

Alyssa, being teammates. I sat right next to her and we were locker buddies. And as everyone

1:42.3

knows, we had a special relationship that meant a lot to me.

1:46.8

And I got to really follow her and cheer her on in her progress. And so this move was exciting and

1:57.1

scary and a little sad for me in losing a piece of my journey at Angel City that meant a lot

2:04.6

to me. How did you feel when you heard the news, Tobin? Yeah, I think I felt really proud, and I think

2:11.0

it just shows how quickly these kids are growing up and how much experience they can have at such a young age. And it very much feels

2:19.8

like Alyssa's journey is still just getting started. And obviously, this is part of these younger

2:28.8

kids becoming professional so early is we have a player now that she played three years in the NWSL.

2:37.4

We saw like such a evolution from her and now, you know, it's one of the highest transfers

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