Chris Richards

Hello.

Well, we got the best.

Thank you all for taking the time out for it.

going crazy internally or are you able to kind of like handle an experience like that a little bit of both I almost couldn't believe it because something along the same lines happened right before the last World Cup about three weeks out I had a big injury and so when this happened I was I was super nervous I can't lie but then I almost forced myself to go back on the pitch and finish the match even though I probably shouldn't have but I think for me it was just a sign where I was like you know I have to get through this regardless of what the actual injury is I have to get back on the field and you know

that kind of, you know, saved my chance of once I woke up.

Yeah, you know, I spend a lot of time in the gym just doing ankles, strengthening exercises and a lot of compression, a lot of, you know, trying to massage the swelling out.

But I pretty much spend six or seven hours in the, in the treatment room just trying to get the swelling down and trying to

ease the pain a little bit.

It's been working, but I think it'll be like this probably for the rest of the World Cup.

Wow.

Yeah, I think regardless of your role with the team over X amount of years, I think there's always kind of a question mark of, you know, does the coach really see me in that light?

Or am I really this kind of shoo-in that people say on social media?

Yeah.

So again, it's nerve wracking.

Regardless of who you are, it's nerve wracking.

And for me, I remember sitting, I was laying on the ground in my living room waiting for the call.

And it was 6pm, still didn't see a message.

And I was like, Oh, no, please tell me this doesn't happen.

It was just because the coaches were tardy.

But regardless, you know, it was a nerve wracking 12 or so minutes before I got the message.