USWNT's Sophia Smith Joins The Pod

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Grant talks to Sophia Smith, one of the rising stars in world soccer, about the Portland Thorns, her recent time with the US Women's National Team, the big year ahead before the World Cup, and more.

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall.
0:10.4	Our interview guest today is Sophia Smith of the Portland Thorns and U.S. Women's National
0:15.7	Team.
0:16.8	Before we get going, you can sign up for a subscription to my writing site at grantwall.com, which is
0:23.5	celebrating its one year anniversary this week that's grantwall.com.
0:28.5	Now, here's my interview with Sophia Smith.
0:33.7	Our guest now is the MVP favorite this season in the NWSL, and one of the electric young
0:40.4	attackers on the U.S. Women's National Team, Sophia Smith has 11 goals for the first place
0:46.0	Portland Thorns, and recently helped lead the United States to the ConquerCaff Championship.
0:52.2	Sophia, congratulations on everything you're doing and thanks for coming on the show.
0:56.2	Thank you.
0:57.2	Thanks for having me.
0:58.4	So we're going to talk Portland, we're going to talk the national team, but first, I want
1:03.2	to ask you about something that you posted on Twitter a few years ago, and it was a cool
1:08.5	photograph of young you with Abby Wombach when she was with the U.S. Women's National Team.
1:16.2	What were the circumstances around that photograph?
1:19.3	Yeah, so I had just gotten my first cap with the U.S. Women's National Team, and I mean,
1:27.8	I just remember she tweeted something about me getting my first cap, and I thought to myself,
1:35.5	I was like, wait, I have a picture with her when I was little, and I remember going and
1:39.4	watching her play with the Women's National Team and her being a huge reason why I started
1:45.6	to have the dreams that I had and started to really work towards being on the national
1:50.4	team and not being one of my biggest goals.
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