Chris Richards

Yeah, it almost doesn't feel real.

It's crazy hearing you say we're almost a week out because...

I haven't even thought of it in that light yet.

I think it'll really hit us once we hit LA.

But for right now, we're in Atlanta getting ready to play Germany and I just feel like another national team camp.

But I know once we set foot in LA, it'll be a completely different

kind of journey from then on out.

That's when the World Cup starts.

Right.

Yeah, exactly.

It feels like everybody's still kind of pulling their breath, waiting for the first steps in LA, and then everybody can just exhale and be in the moment and understand that, no, this is the World Cup.

That's so exciting.

man it was so weird like uh yeah we probably had what three clubs in birmingham and we had maybe five like i guess bigger clubs in all of alabama so it's a very small community everybody knew everybody but a lot of kids that played soccer were also like the kicker for the football team or the honor for the football team and the high school i went to was a huge huge huge football school hoover high school and um

No, every year.

Like, oh man, just come and play for us for a little bit, you know?

And it hurt because, you know, like all my really good friends were, you know, some of the stars on the football team, but I just, it was always, the seasons always overlapped, so I couldn't do both.

What age were you when you started?

Well, at that age, I was playing, funny enough, I was playing at like my daycare.

I was playing in the gym.

Definitely.