Becky Sauerbrunn
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51 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Becky Sauerbrunn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't know what's about to happen right now. And I had not done a lot of reps. And so you have someone in your ear talking to you while you're trying to answer questions. And luckily, the people that I'm with, like Shannon Box and Julie Foudy and Sarah Walsh, who's the host, they were so great and put me at ease and answered every single stupid question that I had.
And they just kind of became like a team right away. And when you retire, you'll find out that you miss that team environment. And so to kind of walk into another team and have them take care of you, I was like, oh, I can do this.
I know. I know. Sid, you know that I've never been good with makeup or dressing myself. And so they do your hair and makeup. Well, that's not true. And I was like, please go very light coverage. And they're like, sure, sure, sure. We got it. And I saw my face that first time and I was like, dear God. It just didn't look like me. Luckily on TV, it looks better. But in person, you'd be like, oh no.
But you're a... That's not true.
I am. Very.
Yeah, it was a big game. Becky, that was all you. I love that memory just because I know how much you loved scoring against Canada. So any time I could be involved in a game that you scored against Canada, I was like, yes!
I remember a lot just like you with Cassius and us like lugging all your stuff and making sure that, you know, we got into the team vans because FC Kansas City, we didn't have a bus. So we were all in charge of our own vans. No. We'd get in at like 1030 at night and we'd be like, we got to find something to eat.
So we're like going through the Wendy's drive-thru and we're like just trying to find food. And just like looking back now, now that hopefully I will have a baby boy of my own, just like how fiercely you love cash and like, how amazing it was for me to be able to see someone just like take care of their kid like that.
Like I feel like you are a role model for me now about how I want to be able to raise my kid. And a soccer one that I remember is that you had just gotten back from pregnancy. And I think we're playing the Boston team and I assisted your first goal back. And I knew how much it meant to you to get that first goal. Yes.
Oh man. I mean, most of the quieter moments, like that's just kind of my leadership style anyway, whenever it had to be a little bit louder. I think we were so fortunate that people like Sid or Megan Rapinoe or Alex Morgan, like there were people that would stand up and do that kind of stuff. So for me, a lot of the stuff was quieter and that's just kind of where I...
thrived and i think building relationships with players and having them know that if they needed anything if they had questions concerns like they could come to me and so i took a lot of pride in having relationships where people trusted me with important things and so like working with the players association like having people's livelihoods in my hand like that's weighty and really important and and that's like quieter smaller work that has bigger ramifications
I think in many points in the program, there's just this like huge transition phase where a coach will come in and they'll kind of phase out the older, more veteran experienced players and just give a lot of time and energy to the youth. And I think we keep forgetting that this happens and it's very natural.
So everyone's kind of like, oh my gosh, you know, there goes Alex and Kelly and Pino and Becky and like, what's going to happen? And it's like, this happens all the time. It happened to Boxy and Abby and like all these big name players. And so I think we just have to remember that this is a normal part of the cycle. And what excites me is seeing how good some of this young talent is.
And I look at on your guys' team, like an Alyssa and Giselle Thompson, like that's like how they're playing right now. I think it's like really exciting to me to see how, especially Alyssa, like from two years ago at the 2023 World Cup to now, she just has like her game has evolved so much. And so give her another two years and what is she going to look like in 2027?
Like that kind of stuff really excites me.
How are your ties? So because of my podcast, I have to watch a lot of soccer. Oh, so sad for me. So I watch, if I can, so many of the games. If they're on at the same time, I have to usually pick and choose. But I'm always watching the Thorns, but yeah, I watch almost every single game I can.
You can say it.
Like, no one will own being a cat person. Yeah, that's true. That's true. They would rather say they're not even an animal lover.
I know.
That's such a good feeling. Thinking I'm going to read it.
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