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00:00Copyright (c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. I think that we've made you soccer into a thriving business, unfortunately. We've really minimized the amount of girls and boys that could play this sport. All you really need is. Some sort of round ball and and any surface you know, it's really the most simple game at the core of it. We now have all these competing leagues. Club fees are astronomical. We have to look at, you know 910, eleven, 12 year olds like what are we doing with with? You know these fees and why are we making them play if they're living in California, they're going to Texas to play. Is that necessary? Absolutely not, you just need to create more accessibility. We are cutting out the bottom half of kids and families from being included. In the sport, and that's hurting the sport in in a huge way. I didn't even start playing youth club soccer like travel soccer until I was like 13 years old. So when I you know talked to these 789 year olds and they say they're the most committed on their team and they work the hardest and they do extra work outside of it with individual coach and all that, that's great. But when you're 9, all you need to be doing is having fun. You don't need to be like working on. Your first touch or back to goal or corvers like that's all fantastic, but like you don't need to be training six times a week. When I look at the number of girls dropping out at a much larger rate than boys, I think of you know the acceptance of girls in sports and the respect that girls should garner in sports as much as boys. And it starts with you know what they see on TV and and the respect that they're given on the field and and then and then being given just the same opportunity as boys are for me, doing my part in trying to grow the NWSL. And make it the most professional, the most successful, most competitive league in the world. So they go to those games week in and week out. And they say I want to be there. I want to do that.

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