A Proactive Approach to the NWSL Schedule?
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
After an unplanned week off, Full Time is back in a big way with Alex Morgan, Rachel Daly and Lynn Williams joining the pod to have a discussion about the NWSL and plans for 2022 — with a crowded summer of international matches and World Cup qualifiers, how can players balance club and country? We explore the player perspective on the soccer calendar and what could change — and how proactively talking about this now might help push the NWSL to live up to its hopes of being the best league in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to full time with Megalinahan. I'm Meg. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer |
| 0:21.1 | on the athletic podcast network. Now, it was a bit of an unexpected week off last week. I will admit that. |
| 0:26.4 | That trip to Minnesota really honestly threw me for a loop, but I am home now ahead of NWSL |
| 0:31.8 | playoffs and being on the road three weekends in a row. I will see you in Chicago, Portland, and Louisville, of course. But we've |
| 0:38.8 | got a great, great show this week to make up for it, and we're going to post it a day early just |
| 0:43.5 | because it's so good and I don't want to wait, honestly. Alex Morgan, Rachel Daly, and Lynn |
| 0:48.4 | Williams are going to join the show as a bit of a player panel to discuss plans for the |
| 0:52.6 | 2022 NWSL's season, the schedule. |
| 0:56.0 | Yes, I know I am playing with fire by having a schedule-themed episode, but their discussion |
| 1:00.6 | is so great and so nuanced, it is absolutely, absolutely worth it. |
| 1:05.1 | Before we get to the rest of today's episode, as always, to show your support a full-time, |
| 1:09.6 | plus get all of our women's soccer coverage and everything else the athletic has to offer on our site and app. You can subscribe right now at theathletic.com slash full-time. Right now, it is just $4 a month for your new annual subscription. It's the perfect time to join. We've got postseason kicking off this weekend, a couple of NWSL drafts on the way, and plus a huge U.S. Women's National Team roster drop awaiting us this month ahead of those games theoretically in Australia. |
| 1:34.9 | All right. On to the news. Let's start with the NWSL playoffs, of course, as the field is set, and we've got some games kicking off this Sunday. |
| 1:41.8 | We will have our usual guide to the playoffs at the Athletic |
| 1:44.1 | soon. Steph is running that one this year, but it will be unlocked and free to read as always. |
| 1:49.3 | Of course, keep an eye on Twitter for the link. In the meantime, though, let's focus on the first |
| 1:53.6 | round with the Chicago Red Stars hosting Gotham FC on Sunday at 3 p.m. Eastern on CBS Sports |
| 1:59.2 | Network. The winner of that game will head to Portland for the |
| 2:01.9 | semi-final next weekend. Then Washington Spirit hosts North Carolina Courage, also on Sunday at 5.30 |
| 2:08.1 | Eastern on Paramount Plus. The courage sneaked into that sixth and final playoff spot, |
| 2:12.8 | thanks to the Spirit defeating the Houston Dash on the final day of the regular season, |
| 2:16.9 | Trinidad Rodman providing the game winner. |
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