The retired soccer champion dishes on the Presidential race and Hillary Clinton
In a sit-down interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow, retired U.S. soccer player, coach and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach shared her mission now that she’s retired as well as her thoughts on the 2016 Presidential Race. The interview aired Saturday, January 16, on CNN Newsroom Weekend (3-6pm ET).
Highlights:
On Hillary Clinton and the 2016 Presidential Race:
“I think all candidates have such valuable things that they’re going after and that they want to change about this country. But I think that Hillary lines up with my personal value system. If I was 10 years old and I look up and I can see somebody in the White House, I can look up and I can envision Hillary Clinton and I can put myself in her shoes as a 10 year old…When I’m on the campaign trail for Hillary, obviously I want her to be in the White House, but more than anything it’s about a conversation. Right? That’s what’s so beautiful about this country. It’s not the fact that I believe in x and you believe in y and we can’t be friends. It’s the fact that if I believe in x and you believe in y we can agree to disagree…I’d love to see what’s gonna happen with women and how she (Hillary) actually attacks that.”
On whether she would ever run for elected office:
WAMBACH: Everybody keeps telling me that I’m very political and I should run for office. I’ve been a captain of this country for women’s soccer for so long that we’ve had a lot of different debates on our team and they’re right for them. Like if you believe in something, I believe that for you, I believe that to be true for you.
HARLOW: So is that a maybe?
WAMBACH: Yea that’s a political way of not answering the question.