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Jordyn Listro is the captain of Tampa Bay Sun and a midfielder for Canada women’s national team. She’s 31 now. But she didn’t have a club when she was 22 through 25. Instead, she was doing medical sales 😳 Listro talks about that period in her life to @RileyJamesTV on GOLZ TV. “I went to play professionally in Spain and came back and realized there wasn't a lot of opportunity to play professional soccer as a Canadian at that time,” she said. “We didn't have a pro league. So I had different interests throughout college and I was like, ‘Okay, what do I want to do post-soccer? If this is what soccer has done for me, what am I going to do after?’ “And so I majored in health sciences. I've always been interested in the medical field. “And while I was in college, I had a mentor at the time who I shadowed who did medical device sales because I had no idea what it was. “It's very popular in the U.S. And so he took me through a day in the life, and basically you wake up, you go into the operating room and you sit in surgeries basically all day with different surgeons, or you go from one hospital to another hospital or surgery center to surgery center, and you're selling a piece of equipment, or multiple pieces of equipment, or implants for a surgery, and then you're going to the next one and doing the same thing. “You're building relationships with surgeons because, again, it's like sales, but you're still in the medical field helping patients because your products are valuable to their surgery. “So it was so different, but I really enjoyed it because there's so much pressure to know exactly what your products require, and you have to make decisions in a split second because, you know, somebody's on the operating table. “I had, like, the sports science portfolio, or sports medicine portfolio. So I was in ACL surgeries, rotator cuff surgeries, hip surgeries with orthopedic surgeons. “And we had commonalities because playing professional sports, they love to chat about that during surgery, or I can relate because a lot of my teammates have had similar surgeries. “So to be there and witnessing it and then thinking about all the things they've been through, I really took a liking to it because I felt like I was helping patients, and I also was able to have that pressure environment of, like, it's go, go, go all the time. “And you're trying to, you know, sell as many things as you can, and you're trying to help patients. So it's a very interesting job. “People are like, ‘Don't you have to go to med school for that? Because you're honestly, like, telling a surgeon how to do a surgery with your product.’ “But there are some times that the surgery doesn't go as planned, or the product doesn't work as well, and you didn't make the product. “So they're looking at you for a solution, and you have to be able to find one in that moment, having a background of anatomy, or knowing the product to a T. “So yeah, it's a very interesting job, but I enjoyed it a lot.” Listro thought her pro soccer career was over. She only went to the gym to lift weights and played pickup with surgeons at that time. But NWSL side Orlando Pride came calling in 2020. And the rest is history.