BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Facing It, Childhood Idols, and Soccer Mount Rushmore
28 Apr 2025
It’s finally here – the BFFR podcast! On the very first EVER episode of BFFR with Sydney Leroux and Ali Riley, our hosts are holding nothing back. They talk about how BFFR came to be, Sydney’s recent break from soccer, and how stoked she and Ali are to be back on the field together again. Ali and Sydney dive into their childhood heroes, how the women’s game has changed over their lifetimes, and what the future holds for professional women’s soccer in the United States. PLUS they share their W’s and L’s of the week and answer YOUR burning questions on the BFFR hotline. New episodes of BFFR with Sydney and Ali drop every Monday. Subscribe to the show on YouTube and follow on all your favorite podcast platforms. For bonus content and to send your mailbag questions in to the show, follow on all social media platforms @BFFRShow. (https://www.bffrshow.com/).
Full Episode
Puss, puss. Kick it here. Period. See you in the big D.
Welcome to the first ever episode of BFFR. I can't believe this. No, me neither. How did we get here? I don't know. I don't know, but I'm so happy. I don't know. We're here. We're here.
And before we get into it, because we're going to get into it. Oh, we're going to get into it. May we remind you to follow us on social media at BFFR Show, subscribe to the show on YouTube, and follow us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts. Yeah.
Honestly, we don't really care how you're listening or where you're listening from as long as you're listening to us.
Period. And if you rate and review the show. We only accept five stars. It helps others find us. And we definitely want to be found. You can even call us at 1-833-TXT-BFFR. That's 1-833-898-2337. We love hearing from you.
Your question or comment might end up on the show. It's got to be good, though. All right, Sid, kick us off with an affirmation. All right, besties and testies. We don't discriminate. We don't fake it. We face it. Puss, puss. You know, let's start out with a bang. Yeah, let's do it. Yeah. Tell us, Sid. Yeah.
If anyone watching this show doesn't know that I took mental leave from soccer, that's what I did. I think this is, you know, why we kind of started the show is just to be like very honest and real and open about everything. Relationships, life, friendships, teammates, teams, all the things that
Um, and yeah, I was, I was really struggling and I just had a lot of things kind of on my plate all at once. And, um, it was really hard and I definitely didn't take the time that I needed, um, in the moment. That's just not who I am. Um, but then, you know, my best friend and, and my friends who are also my teammates, um,
came to me and you basically said you need help and we're worried about you. And my family was as well. And I think that that was really important for me to be able to like not only see what I was putting myself through, but to see what I was putting everyone else through. I think that was really hard.
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