.julieertz won't apologize for being an aggressive player:
Capitalizing on her prospects is something the seasoned defensive champion has been doing since her teens. After a winning stint at Santa Clara University, the NWSL rookie of the year became the second-youngest player on the victorious 2015 World Cup team, a position she slid into after an injured Crystal Dunn was dropped from the roster. Former alternate Ertz seized her moment by the throat, playing every second of the tournament, emerging as a star.
Dames drafted Ertz to the Red Stars five years ago, in large part because of her brute chutzpah."Julie puts her body on the line. It's unusual to have a player that has all the characteristics that Julie has and still have her willingness to tackle," he marvels, adding,"There is no gray area for her."
"If her goal was just to be a great soccer player, that goal would've already been accomplished," observes her husband, Philadelphia Eagles tight end Zach Ertz."She could rest on her laurels and be complacent. But she's not." "I see moments of a game that could happen," she says, knitting her brow. Premonitions and"visions," not of trophies but of plays, of tackles. Even at rest, she is strategizing.
The sisters excelled in every sport but showed particular promise in soccer, a game"my parents didn't know anything about," Ertz recalls. By age 9, Ertz thought of little else. Local leagues were joined. A net was erected in the backyard. Self-motivated practice was expected. If this was where the family time and money was going to be spent, the girls were called upon to take their commitment seriously. Ertz says the early accountability was a blessing.
"I wanted to finish, and I really, really tried," she says."It was hard to balance classes while I was getting called in with the national team. My parents still ask me when I'm going to finish my education, and I tell them, 'Soon.'"She is a completionist."I want to win more games," Ertz says of her immediate goals."I will never be satisfied," she says of her competitive mentality.
Since then,"Julie has pulled a lot of stuff out of me," Zach says. When they are together, the pair put fun first. They play games of gin or Bananagrams, tease each other good-naturedly."More her making fun of me. We rarely have a bad day." "Our relationship wasn't built on Julie's ability to play soccer and my ability to play football," Zach explains.
"Hips Don't Lie" comes on the radio, and Ertz breaks into song. She makes an inspirational playlist every December, adding songs"over the year whenever I hear one that speaks to me in the moment." The last tune she added was"Sunshine," by Maoli, a breezy island bop celebrating true love. She says it reminds her of a trip to Turks and Caicos with Zach.
During the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Ertz was hitting her stride at center back."The game against New Zealand was one of the best games I've played." Later came Sweden: the first time Team USA didn't win gold in 16 years and the first defeat for Ertz. When she made it back home to Philadelphia, Zach was already with the Eagles in OTAs, and Julie found herself alone in an empty house. Zach flew in her parents to nudge her out of her funk."And I didn't talk to them," she says."I literally sat in silence for two weeks."
Ertz was benched from the national team after the Olympics. For nearly a year she didn't start, an abrupt and gutting life change.Ertz is not one for self-pity. She can do the USWNT math. The bench is deep with exceptional players. Rejection is in the DNA of the cutthroat selection process. Still, it was hard to reconcile.
"To be elite, my fitness had to go way up. And I had to accept that mentally it's going to be very, very hard and push past it.""Feeling wanted, at least somewhere," Ertz says, allowed her"to figure out where I belonged." "This is not a normal thing what we do," adds Naeher."It's hard to understand the psychological side of it unless you're in it."
Ertz sensed there had to be more than leapfrogging from medal to medal, goal to goal."All I had was soccer. That was my identity. If soccer didn't go well, nothing else was great." So she shifted her perspective. Less end game, more journey. Ertz started asking herself,"What else is there?" And her answer was faith, family and deep friendship.
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