Hello, welcome back to full-time with Meg Linnehan. I'm Meg. You were listening to a show

all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. Both Steph Young and I traveled to U.S. Women's National Team Games last week. We are both back from our individual stints in Ohio. So we're going to talk some national team talk. We're going to talk some NWSL. And, you know, we both watch Ted Lasso, so that's

going to be in the mix as well. We can do a couple Ted Lasso reaction mini sections in here. So just

as a heads up early on, there will be spoilers for this week's Ted Lasso. We do mention those

ahead of when we actually start talking about them, though.

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Let's just get right to stuff.

Here we go.

Stuff, so we both went to Ohio over the last week and a half or so, not at the same

time and to two different cities in Ohio.

How was your Ohio experience?

I have a lot of thoughts on the way Cleveland built out there downtown and Lakefront area.

Like if we want to talk urban infrastructure, we can do that for this podcast.

But other than that, it was a game. You know, they won 9-0. And actually my main takeaway from that was like, after every time, every time we have one of these games, there's a lot of hand-wringing where people are like, what does it all mean? And like, how do we take anything away from these 9-0-8-0 blowouts? Andouts and you know it does a disservice to the women's game

and these other teams come here and they're underfunded and et cetera et cetera and the underfunded part is legitimate like we should all

definitely be keeping an eye in paraguay and like their national team and understand that this was a lot of you 20 kids because a lot of their starting players are in Europe and couldn't make it.

But at the same time, in general, not every game has to have meaning.

We just finished a tournament cycle.

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