Chris Richards

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424 appearances 8 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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The Run-Through with Vogue · Team USA’s Chris Richards on Preparing For His First World Cup · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

I think you should stick with basketball.

I was very firm on it.

My parents were very supportive of my dream, but I think

I think they'd also admit that they also questioned it a little bit, um, because again, we didn't have people to look up to in the soccer world, especially from, from Birmingham.

You know, it's not something that many kids had ever done, uh, or dreamed up.

So I was kind of a quote unquote, like, I guess a pioneer you could say, but, um,

Yeah, completely, completely.

I mean, I even...

So I left my family at 16.

Right after I turned 16, I moved to Houston to live with the host family.

And I remember when I was leaving, a director of a soccer club in Birmingham told me like, oh, this would be the worst decision of your life.

Like, you won't make it.

I mean, I had, you know, like teachers laughing at me.

I told them I want to do this for a living.

I had everything, you know.

But I just kept my head down and decided that I wanted to prove them wrong.

And I think I've done pretty well at that.

You certainly have.

Yeah, definitely.

I mean, I remember going to a women's national team game.

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