7 Fun Facts About World Cup Champ Christen Press, Who's Sure to Make Waves in Tokyo

In 2019, after clenching a second FIFA Women's World Cup championship title, Press and three current and former USWNT players — Megan Rapinoe, Tobin Heath, and Meghan Klingenberg — founded the eco-conscious fashion lifestyle brand, Re—inc. The brand's genderless streetwear is made with all body types in mind.

Press told POPSUGAR that the "strength and love" they received from fans following the 2015 World Cup championship fuelled their inspiration to "challenge the status quo." "We can be the makers of the world that we want," Press explained last fall. "Let's build something ourselves. Let's bet on our own value. Let's claim our space and be female entrepreneurs as well as female athletes and world champions."

For almost a decade, Press has been a global ambassador for Grassroot Football, an organisation dedicated to educating, inspiring, and teaching adolescents in developing countries how they can live healthier lives through football. Press now serves as a member of the organisation's global board, too. "Football has always been much more than a game in my life," her bio reads. "I'm particularly excited about GRS' work with young women in these communities. I want these girls to know that anything is possible and they have the ability to achieve whatever they set their mind to."

In an interview with Visit California, the Palos Verdes native talked about her love for the ocean, as well as "Mexican food, street tacos, and margaritas," which she says should be "the official state culinary experience" for anyone who visits her beloved home state.

While some athletes feed off anger, pressure, and pent-up energy, none of those things help improve Press's game. "So much of my physicality comes from my mind and yoga is the link between those two things," Press told The Post Game ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics. "I'm the best player when I'm smiling, when I'm having fun, when I'm super relaxed, when I can enjoy scoring goals, and when I can laugh off my mistakes. [Meditation and yoga are] my way of staying centreed." The following year, she told ESPN that, in place of pregame superstitions, she commits to a 20-minute meditation before a match.

Sports are in Press's blood. Her dad was a college football player, who once had his eyes set on playing in the NFL and was determined to pass his love for sports on to his three daughters. "He was having us dribble a basketball in the backyard, trying to kick the football ball as high as we can, throw a football and tackle each other, and you know, run sprints," Press told Fanatics in 2016. "I think he gave me my love for competition and that little bit of drive and motivation to be better than the people I was playing with."