Team USA’s Chris Richards on Preparing For His First World Cup
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This is The Run-Through. I'm Chloe Mell. And I'm Gemma Nardi. And today on the pod, we have a conversation that I am very excited about between two of our Vogue football fiends, Taylor Antrim and Teen Vogue's Alyssa Hardy, and the U.S. soccer star Chris Richards. The World Cup is upon us, Choma!
I'm sorry, but U.S. soccer stars, no. I don't know.
What is Chris Richards' journey to the World Cup?
I think we're going to crush you in the World Cup. I think that's probably true. But you know what? I think Germany and France and Spain are going to crush all of us. True, true.
We just had a big sporting moment here in the UK, Arsenal fans. Oh, I know. Of which Mondami is one. I know.
He wore a special Eid Arsenal kurta. That was very exciting.
He did. Spike Lee is also an Arsenal fan. We had a huge parade. It took over all of London and everybody was watching the UEFA Cup. So it's been pretty much football mania here ever since. All the time.
How does the football song go? We were playing it. Graham did a presentation of the World Cup to Arthur's kindergarten class. And this morning he was reading the book to the kids and playing the British football song. How does it go again?
Yeah, it's coming home. Yeah, it's coming home. Yeah, it's coming. Yeah, exactly. Coming home.
It's coming. OK, well, I can't sing that right now, but I mean, for you. Yeah. But Chris Richards is coming home and he will be... He, we hope, is going to be playing in the World Cup, but he's injured. So it's a very... Newsy moment for Chris because there's a U.S. team-friendly game against Germany this weekend that he won't be playing in, but we then hope he will be playing in the World Cup. And we had a really fun soccer-ish shoot in our summer issue featuring... a handful of some of our favorite members of the us men's national team and we shot it with iman haman who is a huge soccer fan herself she is dutch moroccan and so she is a team morocco fan but she also plays soccer on a brooklyn rec league which i thought was super charming and um harry lambert styled the shoot and it's such a delight and so that will be the shoot will be out next week but we are hearing from chris today that's so fun i can't wait to see that
I know. I hope you've got a shoot coming up with Gwen B soon. That's all that's coming through my feed.
Well, that's very sensitive in here, Choma, because we're a Knicks podcast. Thank you very much.
But he's the greatest player that may have ever lived.
I like it. You say it as if he might not be alive. Choma, I want to hear about your gorgeous wellness retreat last week. It looked so fantastic. I was particularly into the axe throwing. I know. I know. I think Anna was a bit shocked by the axe throwing.
I know. Anna was like, isn't that dangerous? I was quite scared. I thought if the axe goes in the wrong direction, we're all screwed. But it is such a thing. Apparently people are axe throwing. Archery was my favorite. It was all part of this. We did an egg and spoon race. It was like super sports day-esque. That's so fun.
Archery in the British countryside is really bringing me back to the animated Disney Robin Hood. So that's exactly what I want.
Yeah, it was it was it was super fun. And it was yeah, the Cotswolds are pretty dreamy and they're especially dreamy when there's a heat wave. So I think we were all kind of relieved to be out in the countryside. And yeah, it was super fun. We had our friends at ELO help us out. And it was it was really cool.
What was what is something you learned from one of the conversations or classes or whatever?
Yeah, I think one of the things that stayed with me because, you know, I have a really love-hate relationship with the word wellness. For me, I'm most passionate about women's health. That for me, I know health isn't a sexy word and I think wellness came along because health never got good enough PR. So one of the things that stayed with me was the fact that Most clinical trials on women weren't done until 1993. So that fact that there's such scant research around women's bodies just really infuriates me. So, yeah, that was one of the most, I guess, the thing that stayed with me the most.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–0:36
2
What is Chris Richards' journey to the World Cup?
0:36–6:34
3
How does Chris manage his ankle injury before the World Cup?
6:34–7:03
4
What does Chris think about the pressure of playing for the U.S. Men's National Team?
7:03–21:18
5
How did growing up in Alabama shape Chris Richards as a soccer player?
21:18–26:13
6
What challenges did Chris face while pursuing a soccer career in America?
26:13–38:57
Speakers
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