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Christen Press, KC Current Own Goal 70’ | Angel City FC vs. Kansas City Current - May 21, 2022

Christen Press | Angel City FC vs. Washington Spirit - May 13, 2023

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Abby Wambach: And talent is not a person’s personhood, and it’s not their heart, per se. What talent is, is you can see their work ethic, you can see their natural gifts, but it’s not really the person that you get to know. It’s like this persona, the outline of a human being.

Glennon Doyle: And so it feels fake.

AW: So it was fake.

GD: It just makes me wonder because we have now met so many people who are so freaking good at one thing. They have achieved this level of greatness. And I would say, and I think you probably would too, that percentage wise, it’s amazing at how many of them feel so lonely, isolated, unseen, fucked up in lots of ways. So much to the point where you know I wish for my children to not be extremely great at anything just because I’ve seen the results. For real, I don’t believe in it.

GD: Because when I think about, in order to be that great, you had to not pay attention to any of the parts of life that actually make you feel loved, like actual relationships, connection, the mundane things, one day… You had to ignore that to achieve greatness. Do you think that greatness comes at the cost of connection and peace?

AW: Yeah, I think that there’s a very small part of the population that can achieve, at least I can speak for athletic greatness like I was able to achieve, in terms of the whole of the world. But I do think there are some people that are able to manage it in better ways than I was. Christen Press is the first person I think of, somebody who takes her full humanity.

Amanda Doyle: She centers it. She centers it as, ‘you can’t watch me in soccer without knowing this about me.’ So it’s kind of like a requirement. If you’re going to buy this, you’re also going to buy this.