2019 NWSL playoff preview and USWNT coaching search w/ Meg Linehan, plus USL League One Championship preview and Lansing Ignite update w/ Jason Weintraub
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🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It's a two-parter on this Friday episode!
2:15 - Part I features Meg Linehan of The Athletic discussing the likelihood of Seattle Reign FC coach Vlatko Andonovski taking over the US women's national team. Meg also previews what to watch for in this weekend's NWSL playoff semifinals.
Here's a link to an article Meg and Steph Yang wrote for The Athletic that goes deep on each playoff team.
30:06 - Today's show is sponsored by Ruffneck Scarves. Go to http://RuffneckScarves.com and use code "TOTALSOCCERSHOW" for a 20% discount.
32:37 - Part II has Jason Weintraub of the League One Fun podcast discussing the USL League One Championship game and explaining the situation with the Lansing Ignite. It's a happy topic/bummer topic sort of segment, but with lots of interesting insights and even some tinfoil hats!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. I'm your host for this episode, Taylor Rockwell. Daryl Grove is not with me. He is still in Boston, but he will return next week when he returns. The NWSL playoffs, the NWSL semifinals, I should say, will have happened. We will know who's going to be in the final. That's because the semifinals are this weekend. First up on Sunday, October 20th, on ESPN2. |
| 0:39.6 | You've got North Carolina Courage hosting Seattle Rain FC. Then at 3.30, again on Sunday, |
| 0:45.3 | again on ESPN2, you've got Chicago Red Stars hosting the Portland Thorns. So Meg breaks down |
| 0:51.0 | what we should expect from those games, who some of the key performers may be. We also talk a bit about the U.S. women's national team coaching search. It seems like there is a very likely candidate who very likely will end up getting hired, has not yet officially happened. But Meg talks about the latest there and what that coach might bring to the national team. So my chat with Meg is going to be part one of this episode in part two. I talk to |
| 1:12.4 | Jason Weintraub of the League One Fun podcast. That is a podcast that not surprisingly covers |
| 1:17.2 | USL League One. The USL League One championship is also this weekend, Saturday evening at 7 p.m. |
| 1:22.8 | You've got North Texas hosting the Greenville Triumph, North Texas with a million exciting young players, |
| 1:29.4 | Greenville Triumph, playing defensive and trying to neutralize those young, exciting attackers. |
| 1:35.2 | We'll see what happens. |
| 1:36.5 | But Jason breaks down that game. |
| 1:38.2 | He also talks a little bit about the, I should say a lot bit about the situation with the Lansing Ignite, |
| 1:43.4 | a team that did very well |
| 1:45.0 | this season, now got knocked out of the playoffs, and now maybe are knocked out of existence. |
| 1:49.8 | We'll see what happens there. |
| 1:51.3 | They could fold. |
| 1:52.2 | They have not yet, at least not when we recorded this episode. |
| 1:55.5 | So Jason talks a bit more about kind of what has happened there, how the situation has gone |
| 1:59.9 | the way it has, and what may end up happening. So lots of great content here from a couple different leagues |
| 2:06.0 | and a couple different areas of U.S. soccer. Hopefully you enjoy. With all of that introduced, |
| 2:12.5 | I will turn it over to me chatting with Meg Linnehan. Meg, good to have you back on the program. |
| 2:17.9 | Thanks for having me one more time. |
| 2:19.4 | Yeah. |
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