Ali Riley
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372 appearances
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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 the game now... Kids are expensive. Yeah. And the game has progressed so far. But, you know, I'm not going to experience or have these salaries and these contracts that these young players are having and not for many years. And it just...
I think I had this image, and I'm so happy to see my friends, Zashira Musevich and Amanda Illestet, Simona Boya, these players that were young players at Rosengård when I was there in Sweden, and seeing them now, one is playing in Sweden, one is, and two are in England, and seeing them be able to step away and have their babies is so special, and I...
yeah i saw that for myself but i just with the way we get paid with the national team and with my contract i and supporting lucas when he came over here before he could work before he had his green card that was stressful enough yeah and i wouldn't want to bring a baby into the world and into our life if i didn't feel like i could support them and give them everything they need um
But yeah, maybe we're closer now than we ever have been to at least being able to try. Oh, you guys will be the best parents. Come on. We'll see. We'll see. It's yeah. The IVF process has been. Yeah, it's a lot. A lot. It's heavy. Yeah.
Yeah.
It is. And I didn't know enough about women's health and. fertility and the statistics. And of course, everyone is completely different. But there are certain statistics that when you reach a certain age that I have now passed, how hard it can really be. Yeah, I just passed that. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's I know I just it's something that I really hope. One of the reasons why I want to share my journey is to connect with other people and be a source of support or a resource. But also, man, I just want the younger players to know what I didn't know.
Yeah.
And just to be prepared and just so it is a choice and not get too. either the end of their career or an age, whatever it is, but just a stage where it's a lot harder and just not... When you're young, you think you're untouchable.
When everyone's telling you, like, to protect yourself and, like, you know, be careful.
Yeah. And you make it work like you were saying, like you find a way. Yeah, you do. Yeah. Yeah. I think just with women's sports and how long it's taken for fertility and menstrual cycle tracking and family planning to become part of the conversation, it was like, When I was in college, we just talked about strength training. And then finally, nutrition and sleep came into the picture.
Recovery came into the picture. And now there's all these tools, technology modalities. And now finally, a lot of these conversations were still led by men and clubs. They're run by men or it's a club that had a tradition of having a men's team and then got a women's team. Or you're going off, you're running a league and a CBA is based off maybe the MLS, like all of these things.
But until you get women, At the table and having these conversations, we are thinking about what it's like to need maternity leave, to want to have some coverage, some support for IVF or family planning, etc. Yeah, embryo freezing, whatever it might be.
But yeah, I think that's something we've talked about a lot is like, for the women who are parents and who want to become parents, how can we keep talking about this and be heard and just make sure that
It's being thought about when decisions and where what goes under the salary cap or what kind of sponsors can we get who will support women because we should be able to do whatever we want in this life. We all love our... Our moms. Our moms, especially this wonderful mother. Thank you. Thank you for sharing these amazing stories with us and enlightening us. Yes.
That would be helpful as well. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. We are not done yet. So stay tuned. We'll be back with more BFFR. It's time for happy hour at Bar BFFR, where we serve up our L's and Dubs of the week and answer one of your burning questions from the hotline.
Here we go. What is something you're loving? I am a huge rugby fan. Oh, okay. I know the story. I can't get enough. So obviously my dad is from New Zealand. So I grew up, he'd wake me up at 3 a.m. and we'd watch the All Blacks. But that was a very, very long time ago. And I didn't know anything about women's rugby. Mm-hmm. It definitely wasn't on TV. And now I have watched the 15s.
I went to the sevens championship weekend. And these women are electric. They are so fit and they're not getting their flowers as they should be because they're just so inspirational. And it reminds me of where soccer was back. I don't know how many years ago, but like they have to travel, play abroad to be able to make money. And there aren't a lot of leagues.
And I just I hope that rugby gets really, really big. The 15th World Cup is this summer. The Women's World Cup, obviously. And the sevens just finished up their league season. the Blackburn Sevens. They're my heroes. I got to do a jersey swap with them and I was just feeling so inspired and to be able to connect with some Kiwis in L.A. was really, really special.
So, yeah, I'm just going to keep I love women's sports. Shock to nobody. But I'm really on the rugby, both the 15s and sevens bandwagon. If you haven't checked these players out, I don't US, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, whoever you need to, I am a huge fan and you should be too. What are you loving?
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