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Hey everyone, welcome to the Casey Current Podcast.
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Today we are officially going international as we talk about one of the most exciting pieces of the growing Casey Current ecosystem, the Teal Rising Academy in Brazil.
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And joining us is someone who is super special and really bringing that vision to life.
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Julia Mani, but she only goes by Julia.
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So one word only from here on out.
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It is just Julia.
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Julia, welcome to the show.
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Thank you so much for joining us.
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How are things in Brazil?
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Hey guys, thank you so much for having me.
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It's really a pleasure to be here.
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A lot of things happening here.
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So a lot of games, a lot of things that we are building.
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So I'm very excited to be part of this and very excited of where we are going.
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Yeah, it is such a blessing and an honor to have these conversations with you and how much you are giving to Teal Rising Academy.
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I know we've had a lot of conversations over email, but now we officially get to have a Zoom conversation in person, and our fans get to know a little bit more about you and, you know, take that trip down to Brazil and really see what the behind the scenes are at the Teal Rising Academy.
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So we start these podcasts off with a very personal question.
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We call them current kicks.
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Before we dive into your story, how would you describe Julia in your own words?
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I think I need to say that I'm a very passionate person.
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So everything I do, I do a lot of passion.
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So these work for me is being uh really a dream come true.
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So I'm very excited to be part of this.
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Thank goodness, because there's a lot of work to do down there in Brazil.
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And there are a lot of um young women and girls who are impacted by the work you do and will be impacted for future generations.
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But let's let's start off with your beginnings.
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And before we talk about the Teal Rising Academy, take us back.
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What's your story and um how did football first become part of your life?
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Okay, so um here in Brazil, um, soccer is everywhere, you know.
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So since I was a kid, I used to go to my with my dad to the games, I used to watch him playing, um, I used to play it sometimes.
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So I really started working with soccer when I was like 19, that I was in a social project just for women.
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Um, I started just playing and then I volunteered to help and then I stayed there like almost for five years, kind of.
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And we went from a project that had 50 people to like, I don't know, today I think they have 800 people there, like since seven to adults.
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And uh I actually I am I graduated in architecture, I didn't get graduating anything related to soccer, but it was in my last year of college that I had the opportunity to do a tryout, and then I passed in a tryout, and then I talked to my parents, and they were like, Yeah, it's your dream, just go.
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And I played for a year, it wasn't I wasn't good, really, and that's fine.
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Really, it's okay, no judgment over here, okay?
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No problem with that.
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I think I just had a different um vision of life, of things that the other players had, and then there was this moment that I just realized that I wanted to be in soccer, I want to be part of that, but um in a different way.
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So that was when I finished college and then I graduated, I did a postgraduation, I don't know how you guys call it, but I did um administration and marketing in esports, and that when it started, I worked in Juventus, I worked for almost five years in Red Bull, Bragantino, and then now I'm here.
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Man, so I couldn't help but notice like there's a photo behind you.
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Um it looks like a huddle.
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Uh what is that?
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Um, it was the first team that we had in Red Bull from the um U20s, so it was the first game, and so it's a really important picture for me.
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So I I frame it.
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Was there a moment in your career or maybe in your life that you realized that you wanted to change the next generation of women in soccer or even just like girls in sports?
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Yeah, so um, when I was playing, there was this game against Corinthians.
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Um, as I say, I didn't play very much.
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I wasn't good, so I only entered in the last minutes and everything, and that's fine, really.
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Um I remember entering the field.
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Um, some players were injured, so we had a little more time to talk and see everything, and then I remember looking at the field and the landscape and everything, and I was like, whoa, it's a beautiful day.
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And then I looked at the stand, and there were some some fans there and some kids, and I was like, it was me a year ago, and now I'm here at the field.
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So why can other kids or other people be here?
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You know, I was um very connected to the project at the time, and I I was working with the U 3013 and U11, um, under 11 and under 13.
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So I was seeing that the girls wanted to become professionals, and we didn't had a lot of extra tour in the place we played in the club that we had.
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And that moment it's just it kicked me very hard.
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Like it was that moment for me that changed everything.
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So here I am.
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And you've you've seen the women's game from a Brazilian perspective, which I think is so unique.
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Where have you seen the biggest progress and where does the biggest opportunity still really exist for young girls?
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I think today um what we can see is that we have more clubs investing, we are more um professionals, uh, more professionalism than we had before.
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And we have more um, how can I say we have more publicity and broadcast and everything for women's soccer, and this is helping a lot.
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Um, but I still think the the youth development is something that we need to get better.
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I mean, we have a lot of projects and social projects, um, but the clubs, not most of them have the youth teams, so they are starting now.
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So I think we are in this process of um building this next generation of players.
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For sure.
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And now, like you are at the heart and soul of that right now in E2 in Brazil.
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And as we talk about the Teal Rising Academy, from your perspective, for people, for girls who've never heard of this before, what do you want them saying about the Teal Rising Academy?
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And how do you want that perspective?
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So today, E2 Rising is the um is the is the is connected to KC.
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So it's the youth um team of KC, let's say something like that.
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We are developing players here, you 20, we're you 15 and you 17, right?
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So this is the first thing is nice to people know that we are connected to KC because it's different, it's very different.
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But um I hope people say that we have a place where we are developing more than players.
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We're we're helping to develop people too, and that we are um making these girls have the opportunity of um meeting different cultures and and having different opportunities and having dreams that they didn't have before, you know, just um thinking that they can play soccer not only in Brazil but whatever they want.
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So I think I want people to know that and you talk about opportunities all across the globe, whether it's you know here in Kansas City or there in Brazil.
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What do you think as this team expands, as this club expands?
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Um Casey Current could have started an academy anywhere in the world, and yet Brazil was the perfect place for this academy to evolve to become, obviously.
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Um why do you think Brazil was such a perfect place?
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We are passionate person, people, right?
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And we we talk about a soccer everywhere, every time, since we are born.
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Like we say sometimes that we are born with this um thing with soccer, you know?
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It's just I don't know how to explain that.
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So I think this is one thing that is amazing to have Casey here.
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Like they are meet they are trying to understand how we work, and sometimes we can't even explain because things are just we play everywhere.
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We play at streets, we play uh at the beach, we play um, I don't know, we just put two flip-flops and start playing in the middle of the street and things like that.
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So um people wanted to be part of soccer, you know.
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And uh I think we just need to give girls more opportunities.
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So I think it was the perfect place because we have a lot of players, we have a lot of girls trying and wanting to do that, and they just don't have the opportunity.
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So now we have.
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Now we you have this place where they can grow and and develop and hope they can achieve whatever they want.
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Yeah, and you talk about all those girls dreaming of those professional opportunities, but how does Teal Rising Academy set them up for success or help develop them in that way?
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I think our first mission is to make the players understand um where they can go, what they can achieve.
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I don't think they understand how big the club is.
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And it's uh it's something that we are um we are passing to them every day.
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Like, watch this game, watch this um this YouTube video.
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Um, do you understand that this player is is playing here, this player is a national team, this player.
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So uh it's the first thing that we are doing.
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We are teaching them how big Casey is and where they can go.
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So we just had the Casey tool here, right?
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And it was an amazing, like amazing week.
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Like the girls went crazy, it was very nice.
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Most of them didn't speak English, but they made a way of to communicate it, and it was amazing.
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It was amazing.
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So I think um we need to teach them first where they can go and and what they can achieve, and then after that, we can help them to go to these places.
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Yeah.
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Soccer is a universal language, and we here in Kansas City know very well that just having a place and a space and facilities can make a world of difference in your development and in how you play.
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I mean, it's amazing what it's done here in the US and now to have those conversations globally is just so powerful.
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And I think you bring up that the players were so excited about just having Casey Current, two players there and the Casey Current crest being down there and then being able to visually see it.
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But what are those conversations like when you talk to those girls and say Kansas City is this epicenter of girls' sports, and what does that mean to them?
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Um, I still don't think they understand a lot.
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I still think they think it's a far place.
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So it's a uh uh I think Casey being here was amazing because of that.
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It was uh more uh I don't know how you guys say, but it's something that they could yes, very good.
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Yeah, it was something um that they could achieve, they they can achieve.
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So we had some players playing with Casey and training with Casey.
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So after that week, they were like, Yeah, we are gonna start to studying English and I wanna be there, I wanna go there.
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Um, we are gonna watch all the games, we are gonna do this and do that.
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So they are trying to understand more after this interaction.
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And uh it's not just them, even the parents too.
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We we have this conversation with the parents, and they were so excited to have the second team here, and then they the message that I received after, like, our girl is so excited, she's going crazy about this and about that, and she just she wanna go to US now to to meet, I don't know, someone and to see something, and they they never even dreamed to go to US.
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So it's something real now, you know.
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So we are we are um breaking some barriers, um, starting with you can travel, you can meet people, different cultures and different countries, and then you can be there, you can play there.
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So it's little steps.
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And you talk about all their different reactions kind of in one, but do you have any stories that really stick out to you about players that you've interacted with, or um something that maybe stands out is that hey, this is exactly why we're doing this.
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So when we told the four players that they were going to train with the KC2, it was very nice.
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Like the different reactions, like, oh my god, what I'm gonna do.
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And then the other one that couldn't stop smiling, and after that week, they they sent a message like, Well, it was really different, I really want to do this, I hope I have this opportunity.
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And uh, I don't have like specific story, but um, I think it was just nice to see everyone so happy with them here and with this, and the parents, as I say, the message that we receive.
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And uh I always shared everything with the staff, and the staff was happy too because they had the opportunity to to work with the KC2, to uh watch the games and be at training, so everyone was just very excited.
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And you see this excitement, you feel this excitement, and we're just we're just getting started.
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Like the future, the growth, the generations to come that will be impacted by this is we're we're just scratching the surface.
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So, for you, what does success look like for the Teal Rising Academy, even though it's very early, um, you know, five, even ten years down the line?
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Seeing the girls five years from now, maybe um going pro doesn't matter where, uh, will be amazing, of course.
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But I think um maybe seeing them talking about tearizing like something that changed their lives will be the most successful thing for me.
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Like they I went there and I did this, and then this changed my life, and I had this dream, and they helped me.
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I think this will be amazing, really.
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And we talk about it on such a personal level and that impact, like it's impacted you, it's obviously impacted me, um, and now it gets to impact this next generation of athlete.
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And we here at The Current talk about being the best women's football club in the world every day.
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We walk into the office, and you guys do the same thing with the Teal Rising Academy.
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But how do you see that playing out um in Brazil in the same way or maybe in a very different way than we see it playing out here in Kansas City?
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For us to be the best team in the world, we need investment and we need to start soon.
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Like the guys are playing since they are, I don't know, five.
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I mean, why the girls can do the same.
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Yeah.
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So if you want the next generation to be very good, they need to start early.
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And I think to be the best team in the world, we need to do this.
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So starting with the 15s and 17s, um, we are investing in the next generation, right?
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We know that if we can we we need to change everything, we need to change the game and make everything better.
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Um, we need to start early.
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So I think um Casey was um it's in the right path to to this, to be the best team in the world, because um they understood that it's not just US, it's everywhere, everywhere.
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And women's soccer is growing everywhere.
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So I think um we are in the right in the right path.
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Yeah, and this pathway now, what excites you about the possibility of someone coming into the Teal Rising Academy, getting an opportunity, developing there, potentially moving to Kansas City, getting that chance there, or even moving on to the professional game.
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What excites you about that prospect?
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Uh I think um the one of the most things that I like about the youth is seeing how they um they grow so fast in everything.
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I mean, for 13 to 17, they change a lot.
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And they grow a lot.
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Um, and I think seeing this, like a girl is gonna come and then she's gonna enter here with 13 or 12, I don't know, and then she's gonna go pro, like all these years that she had here, like all this this pathway that she had.
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I mean, it's gonna be amazing to see that all the change that she had.
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So I think it's the thing that excites me the most.
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I know it's something that takes time, a lot of years, but I think it's very nice to see that she she went there, she she got um her she she made her dreams come true or whatever she she was thinking.
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So I think this is gonna be very nice.
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Yeah, and even to put that into perspective, that these young women have these opportunities now, and players like Marta, Dabinha, Lorena, um Bia didn't have those opportunities, and they still have become not only national successes here in the US, but also international successes and kind of models for um those young women in Brazil.
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So I think it'll be really cool to see not only how they inspire, but how we have been able to um create those opportunities and make it a little bit easier and more accessible for um young women in Brazil.
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Yeah, and you can see um Dudinha now.
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I mean, she's a young player and she's already like playing a lot.
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I know she got hurt now, but she's amazing and she's so young and she's already there.
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So I mean, it's amazing to see this next generation um being able to grow and be whatever in US, in Europe, or whatever.
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Yeah, and speaking of international stage, Brazil is gonna be at the center of women's football here when it hosts the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup.
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What opportunity does that moment really create for young girls in Brazil?
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And how do you think Teal Rising Academy can help turn that inspiration into actual opportunity?
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Um, so we we're gonna have the best players in the world here.
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Like it's a big stage, and everyone is seeing, and it's always the time where um woman's soccer just grows a lot here.
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So we had the Olympics and things just went crazy after that, and we know that the World Cup is gonna do the same because it's even bigger now.
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Um, so this is gonna be amazing.
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And knowing that we have now um more more places to watch, like we have Case now, we have Global, we have other um other streamings, and more people are seeing, not just the girls, but um the athletes that are older, they're like going crazy with that because I mean they did a lot of things to this happen.
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So I talk a lot with some players and they are really excited for that.
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And uh we know that it's important to continue with that um wave, let's say like that, after the workup, not we can lose everything that we build.
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So it's important to see.
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Okay, so we have a lot of players, a lot of kids, we're gonna do with that, where they're gonna play, what can we offer?
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So, cheerising um is gonna give this opportunity, right?
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We have places that they can play.
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Um, we have partnership with the the city, what we can do here to help um things grow, um, to help these uh kids, these girls to play.
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So um Um yeah, I think we can do a lot of things here in YouTube and I don't know, maybe national, whatever we think is the best.
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Um, but I think we just we can't lose all these kids that just want to play soccer, you know?
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Yeah, capturing that.
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And it's amazing how accessibility from even just a media partnership standpoint just changes the game.
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Um, okay, so I'm taking you into the storm round.
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We've got a bunch of just quick hitter questions about you.
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You think you can handle this?
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Yeah, let's do this.
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Okay, game on.
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All right, favorite Brazilian footballer of all time.
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Uh I really like formiga.
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I love Marta, but I really like Farmiga.
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Yeah.
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Brazilian player that every American soccer fan should know.
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I think Carolyn is one of them, and Dudinha too.
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I really like them.
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They're just doing a lot for woman soccer and they're just growing so fast.
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It's amazing.
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It's amazing to see them play, right?
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Really.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Brazilian football is a blast.
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Um, okay.
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Best football city in Brazil.
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I'm going to say São Paulo because I think the championship here is very good.
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And we have a lot of big clubs here and a lot of good players.
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So I'm gonna say Sao Paulo.
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Some people may think it's not the best, but I'm gonna say so.
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Hey, this is your these are your answers and your personal opinions.
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So lean in, girl.
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Lean in.
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Um, we love our food here in Kansas City, we love our barbecue, but what is one Brazilian food that everyone in Kansas City must try?
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So we have um brigadeiro, that is a kind of dessert, it's chocolate, and we have pão de queijo, it's like cheese bread.
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They're the the two that everyone that comes to Brazil will say that everyone needs to try.
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But we love desserts here, so whatever dessert you wanted here, you need to go for it.
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Great.
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I will send you some barbecue, you can send me those desserts, and then we can um make true opinions on on what we think is the best.
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I love this.
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Uh, one word to describe Brazilian football as a whole.
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Passion.
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No better word than that.
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No better word than that.
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Uh, one quality every great young player needs that cannot be taught.
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I think determination, because you can teach a lot of things, like from soccer, but whatever she wants or not, it's not something that we can do for her.
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She needs to have it.
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Or so I think determination is the word.
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Spoken like a true development coach.
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I love that.
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I'm learning a lot about this, so yeah, clearly, but that's a great answer.
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It's a great answer.
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And finally, what do you hope a teal rising player says about the Teal Rising Academy 10 years from now?
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Um, I think that it's a good place to develop not just as a player, but as a people, a person too, and that teal rising can change lives and and make dreams um better and and bigger.
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Like you can dream bigger if you are here.
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So I hope people can say that from 10 years from now.
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Nothing is impossible, that's for sure.
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We uh are living it every single day and just changing the world, right?
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Yeah, I mean, I think Brazil never thought that could have uh uh a team that was only from for from women's.
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I mean, it's something very different here.
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We always have the main team and the woman's team.
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So just a woman's team, it's changing everything.
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I love it.
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We're having a blast.
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Julia, thank you so much for joining us.
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We really appreciate it.
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More importantly, thank you so much for the work that you are doing to really create opportunities for the next generation of players in Brazil.
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The distance from Brazil to Kansas City may be thousands of miles, but Teal Rising Academy is bringing those two football communities closer together and really building a pathway for the future of the women's game.
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So, so glad you were on here today.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you so much so much for having me.
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And uh, it's being really amazing to be part of this and having the opportunity to build this here and to be part of Casey family.
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It's just very nice, very amazing.
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Yeah, it is beautiful.
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Well, and thank you, fans, for listening, and we will see you next time right here on the Casey Current Podcast.
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Be inspired, Casey.
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Hey everyone, welcome to the Casey Current Podcast.
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Today we are officially going international as we talk about one of the most exciting pieces of the growing Casey Current ecosystem, the Teal Rising Academy in Brazil.
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And joining us is someone who is super special and really bringing that vision to life.
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Julia Mani, but she only goes by Julia.
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So one word only from here on out.
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It is just Julia.
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Julia, welcome to the show.
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Thank you so much for joining us.
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How are things in Brazil?
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Hey guys, thank you so much for having me.
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It's really a pleasure to be here.
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A lot of things happening here.
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So a lot of games, a lot of things that we are building.
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So I'm very excited to be part of this and very excited of where we are going.
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Yeah, it is such a blessing and an honor to have these conversations with you and how much you are giving to Teal Rising Academy.
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I know we've had a lot of conversations over email, but now we officially get to have a Zoom conversation in person, and our fans get to know a little bit more about you and, you know, take that trip down to Brazil and really see what the behind the scenes are at the Teal Rising Academy.
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So we start these podcasts off with a very personal question.
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We call them current kicks.
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Before we dive into your story, how would you describe Julia in your own words?
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I think I need to say that I'm a very passionate person.
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So everything I do, I do a lot of passion.
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So these work for me is being uh really a dream come true.
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So I'm very excited to be part of this.
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Thank goodness, because there's a lot of work to do down there in Brazil.
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And there are a lot of um young women and girls who are impacted by the work you do and will be impacted for future generations.
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But let's let's start off with your beginnings.
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And before we talk about the Teal Rising Academy, take us back.
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What's your story and um how did football first become part of your life?
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Okay, so um here in Brazil, um, soccer is everywhere, you know.
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So since I was a kid, I used to go to my with my dad to the games, I used to watch him playing, um, I used to play it sometimes.
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So I really started working with soccer when I was like 19, that I was in a social project just for women.
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Um, I started just playing and then I volunteered to help and then I stayed there like almost for five years, kind of.
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And we went from a project that had 50 people to like, I don't know, today I think they have 800 people there, like since seven to adults.
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And uh I actually I am I graduated in architecture, I didn't get graduating anything related to soccer, but it was in my last year of college that I had the opportunity to do a tryout, and then I passed in a tryout, and then I talked to my parents, and they were like, Yeah, it's your dream, just go.
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And I played for a year, it wasn't I wasn't good, really, and that's fine.
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Really, it's okay, no judgment over here, okay?
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No problem with that.
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I think I just had a different um vision of life, of things that the other players had, and then there was this moment that I just realized that I wanted to be in soccer, I want to be part of that, but um in a different way.
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So that was when I finished college and then I graduated, I did a postgraduation, I don't know how you guys call it, but I did um administration and marketing in esports, and that when it started, I worked in Juventus, I worked for almost five years in Red Bull, Bragantino, and then now I'm here.
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Man, so I couldn't help but notice like there's a photo behind you.
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Um it looks like a huddle.
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Uh what is that?
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Um, it was the first team that we had in Red Bull from the um U20s, so it was the first game, and so it's a really important picture for me.
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So I I frame it.
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Was there a moment in your career or maybe in your life that you realized that you wanted to change the next generation of women in soccer or even just like girls in sports?
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Yeah, so um, when I was playing, there was this game against Corinthians.
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Um, as I say, I didn't play very much.
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I wasn't good, so I only entered in the last minutes and everything, and that's fine, really.
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Um I remember entering the field.
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Um, some players were injured, so we had a little more time to talk and see everything, and then I remember looking at the field and the landscape and everything, and I was like, whoa, it's a beautiful day.
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And then I looked at the stand, and there were some some fans there and some kids, and I was like, it was me a year ago, and now I'm here at the field.
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So why can other kids or other people be here?
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You know, I was um very connected to the project at the time, and I I was working with the U 3013 and U11, um, under 11 and under 13.
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So I was seeing that the girls wanted to become professionals, and we didn't had a lot of extra tour in the place we played in the club that we had.
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And that moment it's just it kicked me very hard.
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Like it was that moment for me that changed everything.
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So here I am.
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And you've you've seen the women's game from a Brazilian perspective, which I think is so unique.
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Where have you seen the biggest progress and where does the biggest opportunity still really exist for young girls?
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I think today um what we can see is that we have more clubs investing, we are more um professionals, uh, more professionalism than we had before.
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And we have more um, how can I say we have more publicity and broadcast and everything for women's soccer, and this is helping a lot.
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Um, but I still think the the youth development is something that we need to get better.
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I mean, we have a lot of projects and social projects, um, but the clubs, not most of them have the youth teams, so they are starting now.
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So I think we are in this process of um building this next generation of players.
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For sure.
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And now, like you are at the heart and soul of that right now in E2 in Brazil.
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And as we talk about the Teal Rising Academy, from your perspective, for people, for girls who've never heard of this before, what do you want them saying about the Teal Rising Academy?
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And how do you want that perspective?
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So today, E2 Rising is the um is the is the is connected to KC.
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So it's the youth um team of KC, let's say something like that.
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We are developing players here, you 20, we're you 15 and you 17, right?
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So this is the first thing is nice to people know that we are connected to KC because it's different, it's very different.
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But um I hope people say that we have a place where we are developing more than players.
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We're we're helping to develop people too, and that we are um making these girls have the opportunity of um meeting different cultures and and having different opportunities and having dreams that they didn't have before, you know, just um thinking that they can play soccer not only in Brazil but whatever they want.
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So I think I want people to know that and you talk about opportunities all across the globe, whether it's you know here in Kansas City or there in Brazil.
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What do you think as this team expands, as this club expands?
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Um Casey Current could have started an academy anywhere in the world, and yet Brazil was the perfect place for this academy to evolve to become, obviously.
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Um why do you think Brazil was such a perfect place?
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We are passionate person, people, right?
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And we we talk about a soccer everywhere, every time, since we are born.
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Like we say sometimes that we are born with this um thing with soccer, you know?
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It's just I don't know how to explain that.
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So I think this is one thing that is amazing to have Casey here.
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Like they are meet they are trying to understand how we work, and sometimes we can't even explain because things are just we play everywhere.
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We play at streets, we play uh at the beach, we play um, I don't know, we just put two flip-flops and start playing in the middle of the street and things like that.
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So um people wanted to be part of soccer, you know.
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And uh I think we just need to give girls more opportunities.
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So I think it was the perfect place because we have a lot of players, we have a lot of girls trying and wanting to do that, and they just don't have the opportunity.
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So now we have.
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Now we you have this place where they can grow and and develop and hope they can achieve whatever they want.
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Yeah, and you talk about all those girls dreaming of those professional opportunities, but how does Teal Rising Academy set them up for success or help develop them in that way?
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I think our first mission is to make the players understand um where they can go, what they can achieve.
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I don't think they understand how big the club is.
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And it's uh it's something that we are um we are passing to them every day.
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Like, watch this game, watch this um this YouTube video.
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Um, do you understand that this player is is playing here, this player is a national team, this player.
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So uh it's the first thing that we are doing.
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We are teaching them how big Casey is and where they can go.
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So we just had the Casey tool here, right?
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And it was an amazing, like amazing week.
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Like the girls went crazy, it was very nice.
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Most of them didn't speak English, but they made a way of to communicate it, and it was amazing.
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It was amazing.
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So I think um we need to teach them first where they can go and and what they can achieve, and then after that, we can help them to go to these places.
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Yeah.
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Soccer is a universal language, and we here in Kansas City know very well that just having a place and a space and facilities can make a world of difference in your development and in how you play.
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I mean, it's amazing what it's done here in the US and now to have those conversations globally is just so powerful.
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And I think you bring up that the players were so excited about just having Casey Current, two players there and the Casey Current crest being down there and then being able to visually see it.
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But what are those conversations like when you talk to those girls and say Kansas City is this epicenter of girls' sports, and what does that mean to them?
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Um, I still don't think they understand a lot.
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I still think they think it's a far place.
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So it's a uh uh I think Casey being here was amazing because of that.
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It was uh more uh I don't know how you guys say, but it's something that they could yes, very good.
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Yeah, it was something um that they could achieve, they they can achieve.
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So we had some players playing with Casey and training with Casey.
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So after that week, they were like, Yeah, we are gonna start to studying English and I wanna be there, I wanna go there.
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Um, we are gonna watch all the games, we are gonna do this and do that.
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So they are trying to understand more after this interaction.
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And uh it's not just them, even the parents too.
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We we have this conversation with the parents, and they were so excited to have the second team here, and then they the message that I received after, like, our girl is so excited, she's going crazy about this and about that, and she just she wanna go to US now to to meet, I don't know, someone and to see something, and they they never even dreamed to go to US.
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So it's something real now, you know.
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So we are we are um breaking some barriers, um, starting with you can travel, you can meet people, different cultures and different countries, and then you can be there, you can play there.
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So it's little steps.
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And you talk about all their different reactions kind of in one, but do you have any stories that really stick out to you about players that you've interacted with, or um something that maybe stands out is that hey, this is exactly why we're doing this.
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So when we told the four players that they were going to train with the KC2, it was very nice.
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Like the different reactions, like, oh my god, what I'm gonna do.
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And then the other one that couldn't stop smiling, and after that week, they they sent a message like, Well, it was really different, I really want to do this, I hope I have this opportunity.
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And uh, I don't have like specific story, but um, I think it was just nice to see everyone so happy with them here and with this, and the parents, as I say, the message that we receive.
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And uh I always shared everything with the staff, and the staff was happy too because they had the opportunity to to work with the KC2, to uh watch the games and be at training, so everyone was just very excited.
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And you see this excitement, you feel this excitement, and we're just we're just getting started.
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Like the future, the growth, the generations to come that will be impacted by this is we're we're just scratching the surface.
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So, for you, what does success look like for the Teal Rising Academy, even though it's very early, um, you know, five, even ten years down the line?
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Seeing the girls five years from now, maybe um going pro doesn't matter where, uh, will be amazing, of course.
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But I think um maybe seeing them talking about tearizing like something that changed their lives will be the most successful thing for me.
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Like they I went there and I did this, and then this changed my life, and I had this dream, and they helped me.
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I think this will be amazing, really.
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And we talk about it on such a personal level and that impact, like it's impacted you, it's obviously impacted me, um, and now it gets to impact this next generation of athlete.
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And we here at The Current talk about being the best women's football club in the world every day.
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We walk into the office, and you guys do the same thing with the Teal Rising Academy.
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But how do you see that playing out um in Brazil in the same way or maybe in a very different way than we see it playing out here in Kansas City?
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For us to be the best team in the world, we need investment and we need to start soon.
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Like the guys are playing since they are, I don't know, five.
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I mean, why the girls can do the same.
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Yeah.
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So if you want the next generation to be very good, they need to start early.
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And I think to be the best team in the world, we need to do this.
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So starting with the 15s and 17s, um, we are investing in the next generation, right?
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We know that if we can we we need to change everything, we need to change the game and make everything better.
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Um, we need to start early.
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So I think um Casey was um it's in the right path to to this, to be the best team in the world, because um they understood that it's not just US, it's everywhere, everywhere.
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And women's soccer is growing everywhere.
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So I think um we are in the right in the right path.
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Yeah, and this pathway now, what excites you about the possibility of someone coming into the Teal Rising Academy, getting an opportunity, developing there, potentially moving to Kansas City, getting that chance there, or even moving on to the professional game.
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What excites you about that prospect?
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Uh I think um the one of the most things that I like about the youth is seeing how they um they grow so fast in everything.
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I mean, for 13 to 17, they change a lot.
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And they grow a lot.
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Um, and I think seeing this, like a girl is gonna come and then she's gonna enter here with 13 or 12, I don't know, and then she's gonna go pro, like all these years that she had here, like all this this pathway that she had.
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I mean, it's gonna be amazing to see that all the change that she had.
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So I think it's the thing that excites me the most.
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I know it's something that takes time, a lot of years, but I think it's very nice to see that she she went there, she she got um her she she made her dreams come true or whatever she she was thinking.
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So I think this is gonna be very nice.
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Yeah, and even to put that into perspective, that these young women have these opportunities now, and players like Marta, Dabinha, Lorena, um Bia didn't have those opportunities, and they still have become not only national successes here in the US, but also international successes and kind of models for um those young women in Brazil.
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So I think it'll be really cool to see not only how they inspire, but how we have been able to um create those opportunities and make it a little bit easier and more accessible for um young women in Brazil.
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Yeah, and you can see um Dudinha now.
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I mean, she's a young player and she's already like playing a lot.
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I know she got hurt now, but she's amazing and she's so young and she's already there.
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So I mean, it's amazing to see this next generation um being able to grow and be whatever in US, in Europe, or whatever.
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Yeah, and speaking of international stage, Brazil is gonna be at the center of women's football here when it hosts the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup.
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What opportunity does that moment really create for young girls in Brazil?
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And how do you think Teal Rising Academy can help turn that inspiration into actual opportunity?
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Um, so we we're gonna have the best players in the world here.
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Like it's a big stage, and everyone is seeing, and it's always the time where um woman's soccer just grows a lot here.
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So we had the Olympics and things just went crazy after that, and we know that the World Cup is gonna do the same because it's even bigger now.
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Um, so this is gonna be amazing.
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And knowing that we have now um more more places to watch, like we have Case now, we have Global, we have other um other streamings, and more people are seeing, not just the girls, but um the athletes that are older, they're like going crazy with that because I mean they did a lot of things to this happen.
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So I talk a lot with some players and they are really excited for that.
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And uh we know that it's important to continue with that um wave, let's say like that, after the workup, not we can lose everything that we build.
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So it's important to see.
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Okay, so we have a lot of players, a lot of kids, we're gonna do with that, where they're gonna play, what can we offer?
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So, cheerising um is gonna give this opportunity, right?
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We have places that they can play.
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Um, we have partnership with the the city, what we can do here to help um things grow, um, to help these uh kids, these girls to play.
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So um Um yeah, I think we can do a lot of things here in YouTube and I don't know, maybe national, whatever we think is the best.
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Um, but I think we just we can't lose all these kids that just want to play soccer, you know?
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Yeah, capturing that.
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And it's amazing how accessibility from even just a media partnership standpoint just changes the game.
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Um, okay, so I'm taking you into the storm round.
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We've got a bunch of just quick hitter questions about you.
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You think you can handle this?
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Yeah, let's do this.
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Okay, game on.
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All right, favorite Brazilian footballer of all time.
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Uh I really like formiga.
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I love Marta, but I really like Farmiga.
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Yeah.
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Brazilian player that every American soccer fan should know.
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I think Carolyn is one of them, and Dudinha too.
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I really like them.
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They're just doing a lot for woman soccer and they're just growing so fast.
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It's amazing.
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It's amazing to see them play, right?
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Really.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Brazilian football is a blast.
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Um, okay.
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Best football city in Brazil.
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I'm going to say São Paulo because I think the championship here is very good.
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And we have a lot of big clubs here and a lot of good players.
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So I'm gonna say Sao Paulo.
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Some people may think it's not the best, but I'm gonna say so.
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Hey, this is your these are your answers and your personal opinions.
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So lean in, girl.
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Lean in.
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Um, we love our food here in Kansas City, we love our barbecue, but what is one Brazilian food that everyone in Kansas City must try?
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So we have um brigadeiro, that is a kind of dessert, it's chocolate, and we have pão de queijo, it's like cheese bread.
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They're the the two that everyone that comes to Brazil will say that everyone needs to try.
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But we love desserts here, so whatever dessert you wanted here, you need to go for it.
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Great.
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I will send you some barbecue, you can send me those desserts, and then we can um make true opinions on on what we think is the best.
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I love this.
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Uh, one word to describe Brazilian football as a whole.
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Passion.
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No better word than that.
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No better word than that.
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Uh, one quality every great young player needs that cannot be taught.
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I think determination, because you can teach a lot of things, like from soccer, but whatever she wants or not, it's not something that we can do for her.
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She needs to have it.
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Or so I think determination is the word.
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Spoken like a true development coach.
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I love that.
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I'm learning a lot about this, so yeah, clearly, but that's a great answer.
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It's a great answer.
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And finally, what do you hope a teal rising player says about the Teal Rising Academy 10 years from now?
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Um, I think that it's a good place to develop not just as a player, but as a people, a person too, and that teal rising can change lives and and make dreams um better and and bigger.
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Like you can dream bigger if you are here.
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So I hope people can say that from 10 years from now.
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Nothing is impossible, that's for sure.
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We uh are living it every single day and just changing the world, right?
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Yeah, I mean, I think Brazil never thought that could have uh uh a team that was only from for from women's.
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I mean, it's something very different here.
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We always have the main team and the woman's team.
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So just a woman's team, it's changing everything.
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I love it.
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We're having a blast.
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Julia, thank you so much for joining us.
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We really appreciate it.
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More importantly, thank you so much for the work that you are doing to really create opportunities for the next generation of players in Brazil.
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The distance from Brazil to Kansas City may be thousands of miles, but Teal Rising Academy is bringing those two football communities closer together and really building a pathway for the future of the women's game.
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So, so glad you were on here today.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you so much so much for having me.
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And uh, it's being really amazing to be part of this and having the opportunity to build this here and to be part of Casey family.
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It's just very nice, very amazing.
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Yeah, it is beautiful.
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Well, and thank you, fans, for listening, and we will see you next time right here on the Casey Current Podcast.
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Be inspired, Casey.
