Julie Foudy
Appearances
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
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BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
How was the night after you guys won? Did you guys have... The time of your life.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Give us the tea.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Yeah, we don't know. Yeah, it's too far away. Okay, the ballroom, nice.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
I am proud of who I am and what I've accomplished. That was a really good one. Yeah, that was necessary this week.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
How was, how was the next morning? Um, Just fine. A little orange juice, a little Gatorade. Oh, perfect. The next morning for us wasn't too good in 2015. Yeah.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
You remember that? Yeah.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
That was a struggle.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Canada.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Oh, no. It was like some club.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Yeah. Well, we weren't either, but that night we were. weren't you in the dj booth or something no i wasn't in the dj booth but um we had like six o'clock in the morning like morning tv and we were just like oh yeah some of us at the shakes some of us thought we were gonna yeah i was gonna it's not you know It's a good time, though. It's a good time. You deserve the celebration.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Yeah. What do you think has changed the most from the 99ers to now with the U.S. Women's National Team?
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
And I think women's sports in general. Yeah.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
It's not just about like winning. It's about we want more because we deserve it.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
To me, it was minor for the first 15 seconds. Yeah. But yeah, I just did a little something to my calf. But honestly, I like everyone's like, are you dissociating? Because I'm not losing my mind. And I feel like in a really positive like space, like I haven't like, you know, like shit happens. And it's like, let's keep going. I guess we've I've been doing this for long enough.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
I'm a fighter. Let's fight. Yes.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
The sweetest girl too.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
I would do that.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
But like part of me is like, yeah, exactly. Like, are you, are you sad? Like, what is the feeling of like seeing your daughter like leave and.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
She could have gone to USC if she wanted to experience something different.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Come back from worse things like bring it.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Julie, obviously you are a huge part of women's soccer, a Stanford alum, a soccer mom. And I would just love to understand and kind of see how the story that came out on ESPN about a week ago, two weeks ago, um how you were able to like navigate that um and it's the save the katie myers story um and a little bit about like you know
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
mental health and, you know, you have a daughter and I mean, none of us can even imagine the pain that her parents went through. But can you just like walk us through a little bit of that story?
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
But we were winning and I didn't know if like we were, you know.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
And we need to bring it back. You haven't done it in a while.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Bring us home with the three clap.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Okay.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
I will say that when I did the three clap, I didn't do the, I just, you know, okay. I was a little shy. Okay.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Whoa, see that?
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
We're all injured now. I think I felt something in the hamstring. Thank you, Julie. Thank you, Julie. We'll see you soon. It's time for happy hour at Bar BFFR, where we serve up our L's and dubs of the week and answer your burning questions.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Snapped in half, actually.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
And you deserve it. She does deserve it. I texted her when it came out and I'm like, I'm so proud of you. Like, it's amazing. I mean, I played with her since she was a little newbie. So yeah, it's like crazy to see the growth of her.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Yeah.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
So we're on a roll today. Win of the week. Give us your dub. Okay. I mean, the biggest dub I think that we've ever had is that our girl Savvy is home. Yeah. And, you know, I think everyone just like the past, you know, it's like makes us emotional because it's just been so emotional. Yeah. But she's back home. Yeah. When I look at you and your eyes are, I'm like, okay. I know.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
So then what did you do? So not even 24 hours later, I went on TikTok and I searched how to remove a cast at home. You searched this on TikTok? On TikTok. Yeah. That's where I get most of my, you know, quick search and someone's going to give me an answer. So I did what they said and I soaked it in hot water for like 30 minutes.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
She's recovering. She's with her family, her beautiful family. And I think like everyone involved was unbelievable. Our medical staff was like on it.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Yeah. Our medical staff saved her life for sure.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
We're really happy that she's home.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Do you like pump it up? Yeah, you can. Depends how feisty I want to get. Right. L of the week is I was about to get my first minutes this season. And then I was like, you know what? Let's tear the calf.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Let's just tear the calf.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
No, we're not coffee drink.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Now I do a peach ice like a peach green tea.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
God awful. But since I tore my calf, zero back pain.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
I don't know when I ever had a soft life. But you bring it up a lot. I know because I want it so bad. Like I want to be soft, but I don't think I'm built for it. I'm built for survival.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
That's you.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
You love to go to bed early.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Yeah. Aside from the coffee that we don't drink.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
What do we do as a coping mechanism? Send each other TikToks. Yeah, we talk to each other so that we can laugh. Yes. Yes. Laughing at each other's pain. That's always great. Yeah, we send reels and TikToks to each other all day.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
This is before I'm going into training because I like I cannot do this. You had like the whole you only had I only had my thumb and I'm like, it's just a finger. I've been going around. So I soaked it in hot water and tried to cut it with just some just I think hair scissors and it didn't work. So I came in, it was soaked, like absolutely soaking wet inside. So I had to get it removed.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
OK, Taylor, thank you. I think, yeah, recently we've really looked at women's cycles in sport specifically. You see ACLs, you see a lot of injuries during your cycle. Yeah. And we have someone who comes to our training like in the beginning of the year when we're doing all of our meetings and we talk about our cycles. Last season, we all had to do the test.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
We all had to, um, track our ovulation so that we knew that we were still ovulating or that we were having a period, like a normal period. Um, but yeah, I mean, there's a lot more to be done.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
you know, there's so many things that go into a cycle. Like my period is different from your period, you know? And it's like, at least we're looking into that. And at least we're like seeing this, like, it's not a pro I guess it's a problem that sucks to have a period. Why doesn't, why don't men have it? Yeah. just give them something, just give them something.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Um, but yeah, I think it's really important. And obviously Allie and I are geriatric now. And so I think even to plan, like if you want children and you know, you're playing, playing a women's female sport, um, That you know that your body is working the way that it needs to work. And if it's not, then you can get the help early instead of waiting.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
And that's why, I mean, you... Allie and I both froze our eggs, so... Yeah, I think...
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
We do our morning.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Yeah, our wellness. And you have to answer if you're on your period what day.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Yeah. We had a teammate who could not train because her periods were so bad. And you just see how different people are like with their cycles. And you're like, oh, my goodness, like I don't have that. But like for someone else, it's like debilitating. Yeah. So we learned a lot with that. And I think it's really good for like the young players coming up.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Like this is something that we need to talk about.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
That was a great question, Taylor.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
It was a good episode. Yeah, it was emotional.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
We don't care where you're listening or watching.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
And then I was supposed to wear a splint. And I'm like, how am I supposed to remember that? The finger's still broken. Yeah. It's actually really ugly, but it still doesn't spray.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Yes. Well, it's like you go, you pull up, they wash your car. It's genius, actually. So I'm like, it's worth it. It's worth the membership. Thank you, Topanga.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Would you like a story time? What? What is going on? I was supposed to get my first minutes coming up. And that Monday, I decided, you know what? Why not just tear the calf? So I tore my calf. We were shooting. I like planted really weird and I just popped and like I heard it. The coach heard it. And then I was like, yeah, there's no way that I just did that. So I'm just going to carry on.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
And so I finished off the rep and then I went to step down and I was like, yeah, I just tore my calf.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Tell her she's funny. Well, thank you. Yeah. Thank you. You are. I know I'm funny, but yeah.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Obviously, we don't care where you're watching and listening as long as you're watching and listening to us. Period.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Do you feel the same amount of stress watching them as you did when you went into a game?
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Congratulations, Izzy.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
Do your kids listen to you, specifically Izzy, going into college and being a soccer player? No.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
No.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
I'm like, I used to not say anything. Remember? In the beginning, I never said anything. Well, when he was two. Yeah.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
He's very good. He's really good. Free kick specialist, for sure. Yeah. That's a lot of pressure.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
He loves it.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
But I will say that the 99ers are iconic. Obviously, you know I know about them, Julie. First of all, the 99ers, when I was growing up, we obviously heard of the U.S. Women's National Team. And that is how I... changed countries because I said I wanted to play on the best team in the world.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
And then I was called Judas by Canada.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Julie Foudy on Motherhood, Affecting Change, and The Three Clap
You're right. It is hard to see the progress when you're in it. But everyone looks at the 99ers and that is where... we came from. That's nice.