Ali Riley

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372 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard Jun 2025

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BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley · Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports · 19 May 2025 podcast

Yeah, no, I get that.

No, but if Sydney were here, I think she would be able to explain some of her responses. So that will be for another time. Yeah, can't help herself. And she has hilarious responses.

Okay. So what has been your favorite or one of your favorite sports moments so far of 2025?

That's so nice. Well, I love the shout out to your bestie. I'm obviously missing my bestie here. So maybe we do like a bestie. When we do our reunion, we have Audrey and Sydney there, obviously.

So do you get just invited to all women's sports events now? Like, do they just roll out the red carpet for you because they should?

It is. We're making history here all the time as women in sports.

Well, I think you're right on time because I just feel like we are in a new era of women's sports, especially with women's soccer. We're seeing it in women's basketball. I know we want to highlight and make sure that we're also... sharing stories of all these other sports who don't traditionally get as much coverage. Do you think that we are still in this trailblazing

movement moment or have women's sports become normal enough with the investment, with the coverage that we're in a new era yet?

Like I wasn't alive, but like-

Amen. Coach Jackie J. Spitting facts. So, Jackie, this is the point of the podcast where Sid and I usually have happy hour at Bar BFFR. Would you mind joining me for happy hour?

Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay, well, so we like to start with something we're loving. And for me, that was this announcement that the Women's World Cup is expanding, not the next one, but the one after in 2031 to 48 countries. And I think this is a big dub for soccer.

Yeah. And we saw in 2023, it was so exciting. There were these amazing stories. And I think there will just be more of that because like you say, the talent is there. And also, should we have so many fewer teams than the men? We can also have a large World Cup and it will be super successful. And

What this will mean having more nations involved just for the representation, what having, I hope that the prize money is also increasing dramatically for 2027 and 2031. Obviously, this is something we've been fighting for so hard. But with that means when you qualify and then when you get out of the group stage, all of that, that money can have a huge impact on these players' lives. Yeah.

But just the whole, you know, seeing her to be able to dream her and be her having this expanded Women's World Cup will be awesome. I will not be there as a player, but I will be watching.

So I like how the table's quickly turned with who was doing the question asking here. But because it's you, so last cycle, I was very, very lucky to be involved with Feef Pro. So that is the global player union. So I was on, I was a part of a group of players that Thank you so much. May surprise some people, but we hadn't had single occupancy rooms before.

We had not been guaranteed business or first class travel, certain conditions, certain quality of a hotel, location of the training pitches. All of this was something that hadn't been in as policy and protocol to match what the men were having. Prize money was a big conversation. The armband was a conversation. And so with prize money, we did get this guarantee. There's two parts to it.

One is, so the prize money did increase. But what was more important was that how would that money actually get into the hands of the players? Because like you say, the money goes to the federations and then depending on if the teams have a collective bargaining agreement, they may see a percentage of that. So with New Zealand, we have a CBA that is equal to our men's team.

We have a players association that is unbelievable. And so we were guaranteed a large percentage of that prize money. So what this conversation was about was making sure that every player was going to get at least $30,000, depending on how the team did, and that that money would—each federation would guarantee that that would go to the players, right?

Since then, I haven't read that that was able to be followed through in a way that we know that that actually happened. So I do believe that this is a conversation that needs to continue.

And then also the president of FIFA did say, okay, well, we're not going to make prize money equal for 2023, but we will make large steps to have equal prize money for the next cycle, which is quickly approaching. Yeah. So I will be on the edge of my seat and advocating in any way I can, whether I am playing or not, to make sure that these conversations continue.

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