Ali Riley
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372 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Ali Riley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that number is actually on the high end because it's skewed by the few clubs and leagues that actually pay more like the NWSL. So the NWSL is the top paying league. But last year, the minimum salary was still only $37,800. Imagine making $40,000 and living in Los Angeles. Yeah, I... It's tough. Yeah.
Every season, because of this number, we talk about ways we could actually supplement our soccer income and help pay the bills. Make the big bucks. I feel like these ideas escalate very, very quickly. We had one teammate had a great idea...
maybe a beer angel tears yes something with the angels and connect with the brewery we wanted to make t-shirts and then we're like okay maybe we do feet pics maybe a nude calendar like we need the money and then i just thought we needed to up the ante and go for the big bucks and i told ally like we should sell our game worn spandex because
All right. On that note, it's time for a quick break, but we'll be back with more BFFR. So don't go anywhere.
I know it worked, Sandy. Don't worry.
Yeah, she was my target. And again, it worked. It worked. It worked. Yeah. She definitely got positive reinforcement for her effort. Yeah, she really did. You and Sandy watching Rue play soccer. I know you said that. It is the most endearing and funny. And you guys are so intense and you sound the same and you're trying to coach her and she's just out there. She's there for the vibes.
And you guys get so serious and you can't help yourself.
She reminds me of someone. I don't I don't I don't know what that is. Well, yeah. It's funny that it was your mom because my dad was my coach and also had never played soccer.
Yeah. I'm not sure how we got here. But he was my coach and my mom, she was the opposite. She came and watched me play when I was, you know, four or five. And she said, John, that is not soccer. Oh. And she went home. And a few years later, she said, John, she playing soccer yet? And my dad's like, she's the best. She's amazing. She's, you know, Pele. And so my mom biked down to the field.
Took one look and biked home because we were still just, well, I actually was just sitting in the grass picking flowers.
And then I would schedule playdates with my teammates, probably on the other team too. It was networking for me.
It's just about community and fun and being an only child. It was... that sisterhood too. I just, I know, I know those were, that was my big family and having my dad there. We, we just, we loved going to practice together and he was the best and he would chase us and come up with the best games. And then eventually it was, it was time for me to move on, find a better, better coach.
Yeah. And then you followed in their footsteps. You became part of that legacy playing for the U.S. Women's National Team. But I forget that that you weren't a 10 year old girl watching that.
OK, well, I was I was older, actually, than 10. I just picked a nice round number.
So I was a little bit older, but that just made such an impact on me. And it wasn't, oh, I can play soccer for a living or even play for the national team. But it was women, strong women, Brandi Chastain, the sports bra moment shirt off with the abs.
And the 90,000 people there to watch women play sports. I think that was so inspirational for me. But it wasn't something – there wasn't then a pathway for any of us to follow.
But seeing then the Sports Illustrated cover, Mia Hamm having commercials with Michael Jordan, that really was – So influential, I think, for me. But yeah, I mean, I didn't think it was anything that I would necessarily do. But it definitely made me love soccer even more. Speaking of kind of the 99ers, do you have a Mount Rushmore of soccer players? Based on...
We'll get her on the show because there are a lot of stories there.
I think I saw she's playing TSD. Oh, wow. And she probably still got it.
Yeah.
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