Sam Kerr

Just Women's Sports

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4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The all-time leading scorer in both NWSL and W-League history joins Kelley to discuss the unorthodox path she’s taken to becoming a global superstar. Sam discusses her lifelong passion for Australian rules football, why she was forced to switch sports by her family, how she went from picking up soccer at age 12 to debuting for the Australian national team at 15, her recovery from two career-threatening injuries in less than a year, why she moved to Chelsea, winning equal pay, and what it means for Australia to be co-hosting the 2023 World Cup. Go deeper. Together With: WISS, your full-service accounting & business growth advisory partner. Get a 30-minute advisory session Magic Spoon, healthy cereal that tastes too good to be true. Get 12% OFF with code: JWS Sports Save You Money.

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0:13.8	I hadn't really ever showed up for the national team and then like I went out there and I scored my first ever hat trick for the national team so I was like oh this is so good and then like literally just after that it's like all I needed is like one game to like reinforce like just be yourself just be who you are.
0:17.8	Welcome to the Just Woman Sports Podcast where we talk to the biggest athletes in the world about the untold stories behind Women's the best goal score on the planet. She holds the all-time scoring record in not
0:34.4	one but two soccer leagues Australia's W League and the NWSL in America.
0:39.6	The captain of Australia's national team she recorded her first cap when she was just 15,
0:44.7	and has already played in three World Cups. A two-time NWSL MVP and four-time
0:50.8	footballer of the year in Australia, Sam now plays for Chelsea in the Women's Super League in England.
0:56.0	Sammy, welcome to the show.
0:59.0	Thanks for having me. How you doing?
1:02.0	Yeah, good. How are you? Good. You just had a birthday. I say it's still my
1:06.5	birthday. I have a birthday week. Okay, yeah, that's fair. I think having a birthday
1:10.5	week is completely acceptable. Yes. Well that's a good place to go back to the beginning. We're going to start from where it all started with you which you were born in Perth, Australia, and most of our listeners,
1:27.8	I think are based in the US. I think we probably have some international listeners but Perth is not your typical
1:35.3	like city that you hear about in Australia you hear about Sydney, Melbourne, those
1:40.8	places but you're from Perth so how would you describe Perth Australia?
1:47.0	The quiet achiever you know we're just like we're just like that state that everyone's like, oh yeah Perth, but like never pays any attention to, but we're the best state. We're like on the West Coast, we've got the best weather, best beaches, best athletes.
2:03.2	Exactly.
2:03.6	Exactly.
2:06.2	Like people I say, oh, Perth so boring, but we're like, yeah, we love it.
2:09.5	Like, it's smaller, it's still a big city, but it's maybe not as, I guess, buzzing as Melbourne and
2:15.2	Sydney, but we like it that way.
2:16.9	For sure.
2:17.9	All right, so you grew up playing Australian rules football. So Ozzy,
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