Interview/Video: Julie Ertz on Women’s Soccer World Cup Support by Cari Champion from ESPN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH_E-cGyZuo

The interview starts with the interviewer Cari Champion asking what national women’s soccer team player Julie Ertz enjoyed most during the world cup and what she is looking forward to now that it is over. She also asks how the support of all the fans was and how it felt like when the crowd was screaming “Equal Pay” during games to support the movement towards equal pay for the women’s national soccer team. Champion also includes questions about Ertz’s position as a role model and what her personal motivation is.

I think the interviewer does a very good job because she came in prepared and asked interesting questions about a variety of topics. She also adapts to Ertz’s answers and spontaneously asks further questions about it if she thinks it’s something the audience would want to hear more about. For that she uses phrases like “speaking of…” and “circling back to…” which makes the transitions between the questions smooth and the interview seem more like a conversation. The interview has positive energy and neither of them interrupts the other. I think the interviewer made the best out of her time and got a lot of good information in these eight minutes.