Episode 127: Alyssa Naeher

Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy

Julie Foudy

Sports

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Two-time World Cup champion Alyssa Naeher joins Laughter Permitted to talk about how she became a goalkeeper, how her background as a point guard in basketball helps her in goal and where her steadiness at the position comes from. Alyssa shares how she was told several times in her career that she didn't have the "personality" to be the starting goalkeeper for the USWNT and how she stayed true to herself despite naysayers. Alyssa also discusses last summer's World Cup and how she is able to find peace within herself during the pressure of penalty kicks. In Most Pressing Questions, find out Alyssa's morning routine and whether she can hit a "logo 3." In Questions Permitted, Julie makes a revelation that blows Lynn's mind. If you have a question or comment for Julie and Lynn, they'd love to hear it! Email them at [email protected]

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0:00.0	The Laughter Permitted podcast is brought to you by Ally.
0:02.9	Do it right.
0:03.9	Hello party people, welcome to Laughter Permitted.
0:06.2	I'm Julie Fowdy.
0:07.1	I'm Leno Zowie.
0:08.3	Our guest this week is two-time World Cup champion,
0:12.4	Alyssa Nair.
0:14.2	And, for those of you who don't know Alyssa,
0:17.6	she is not one who loves to have the spotlight on her,
0:21.1	nor does she love talking about herself, in which we do both. So I thoroughly
0:27.8	enjoyed getting some time with her and finding out what makes her click. I got major coaches vibes from Alyssa. As you know I love
0:38.0	talking with coaches because of the thoughtfulness and that's what I felt so much in this conversation with
0:47.1	Alyssa.
0:48.3	Alyssa is the long-time goalkeeper for the U.S US women's national team.
0:53.4	She won a World Cup both in 2015 and 2019.
0:58.2	She also won a bronze medal at the 2020 Olympics
1:00.8	and she currently plays in the NWSL for the Chicago Red Stars.
1:06.5	And in talking with Alyssa, we revisit last summer's World Cup in which the United States was eliminated in the round of 16 after
1:16.8	and maybe we'll put a picture of this up with the post but that goal line technology
1:21.9	declared by the thinnest of bloody margins
1:25.0	that the Swedish penalty kick indeed went over the goal line which as you'll hear from, she has different thoughts on that.
1:35.0	Look like she blocked it, yet it was called a goal upon review.
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