Sydney Leroux
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435 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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we had said to us soccer for a long time leading into the world cup, knowing it was going to be, you know, in the United States and a big deal like, Hey, what do we have planned for after? Like, we know that we have to do this celebration tour. Where are we going? What are we doing? And, uh, And they're like, well, nothing. Very on brand at the time, right? Like, what do you mean nothing?
Like, you're going to have this huge World Cup and then it's just like, yeah, good job. You're done. I mean, this, and we kept saying, this is the time to promote it and to sell it and to get into, you know, different cities and let's do a tour afterwards. And I think the only thing that Hank Steinbrecher was telling us about, who was the head of U.S.
soccer at the time, was they were contemplating if we should take a tour to Africa. And I was like, you have got to be kidding me. Yes, Africa needs help in getting women's soccer popular. But we are sitting on this goldmine of this World Cup. Why wouldn't you do something here? So we... decided that we were gonna do our own thing if they weren't gonna do it.
And so we found a little loophole in our contract where we could do an indoor tour. Mia, because her brother Garrett at the time had had cancer, was doing these indoor tours that we were helping her with to be a fundraiser and awareness for Garrett. And so we thought, well, we could do indoor tours. They can't control us in that.
And we can bring our own sponsors on because that's a space, again, they can't control. And we just don't call ourselves the national team. We just call us Team USA or whatever. And so we ended up crushing it with this indoor tour that we full page ad the day after we won, we announced and U.S. soccer tried to sue us. We've seen that before. On brand. On brand. On brand. On brand. On brand.
Um, we were like, wait, what? We told you we were going to do this. We've sent you letters. We've told you, you were going to do nothing. And we had sent letters and really documented it and said, okay, since you're doing nothing, this is what we're doing. Never heard anything. So yeah, needless to say, we pulled a little coup there and that was fantastic.
And again, it just, you know, for the first time it was like, and this is something that this generation and you all are so good at, which I have so much respect for is like, if people say, no, we're not gonna do it, you guys go, okay, then we'll build it ourselves, right? Okay, we'll start our own company. We'll start our own merch line, right? Whatever it is, we're gonna go build it.
And for our generation, that was a huge deal to say kind of a double F you. And we're going to do it ourselves. And I'm really proud because it did show U.S. soccer. Like, you're not tapping into all this value. Like, that's the thing. Like, we can all agree there's money sitting on the table that you're leaving. Let's go. Move it. And so that really woke them up.
Like, was there more? Brandy was naked all the time. Literally, when she took her shirt off in the game, I was like, here we go again. Brandy getting naked. God. Yeah, we had, I think we had We rented out the Ritz Carlton Pasadena, or was it Four Seasons? I think it's a Ritz. Is there a Ritz in Pasadena, right? It's too far away. Ballroom.
Yeah, we rented out the ballroom and it was like all your friends and family. It was a huge party. Literally before the final, I was like ironing my outfit and Brandy was my roommate. She's like, what are you doing?
She knew. I'm ironing my outfit for post-game celebrations. She's like, you're insane. But yeah, it was fun. I mean, and especially because... again, like that, that whole month of buildup and, and the number of people watching was something that, you know, no one thought we could do.
And so to be finally successful in, in convincing us soccer and really the world that like, they should pay attention to this, uh, brought us a ton of joy. We were like, yes, finally, even though it took another 25 years.
Where was that?
Where was that? Vancouver. Yeah, but where in Vancouver? Was it like at a Nike house or what was it?
Why again did we say yes to this morning show?
I love the diversity of the team, which, right? Like you look around even walking tournaments now, right? Like it was so white and it was so middle-class and, and still we have a lot of hurdles to get over, but like to see, was it the Olympic team that over half the team was black or Brown, right? And I'm like, this is amazing. So yeah,
To have finally some diversity for young girls to see, I think is huge. I think the depth. of the group in terms of, um, and you guys see it with angel city. I mean, these like what 15 year old, 16 year old. I'm like, I heard you guys talking about that the other day. Yeah.
Well, and like that, just, you know, these younger kids are so acclimated so much faster with, you know, social media brought up. Yeah. You didn't have that. Um, Yeah, but I do love that the thread that will always remain the same with the national team is that it's not just about winning, right? It's about winning and there's more to it.
There's winning and changing the culture, winning and inspiring these young girls to play. Like we've always been so cognizant of that piece of it as female athletes so often are. And I love that that thread has run through every generation of the national team.
Yeah, for sure.
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