A Tale of Two Midfields
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
First, Brooks Peck of The Athletic joins Full Time to fully break down The Year of Kristie Mewis after her return to the USWNT and goal against the Netherlands. Then, Arianna Scavetti of Lyon Offside helps break down just what is happening with the France national team as the conflict between captain Amandine Henry and head coach Corinne Diacre elevates in a public fashion.
Follow Brooks on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrooksDT
Read Brooks on Kristie Mewis during the Challenge Cup: https://theathletic.com/1955627/
And read Brooks on Kristie Mewis, USWNT goalscorer: https://theathletic.com/2225800/
Follow Arianna on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AScavs
Find her work at Lyon Offside: https://lyonoffside.com/author/ascavetti/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello again, and welcome back to full-time with Megalinahan. I am back with you after the holiday. |
| 0:21.4 | Thank you, as always, for joining me here on the Athletic Podcast Network for this show. |
| 0:25.1 | All About Women's Soccer, I am your host. |
| 0:27.3 | Megalindahan, I'm a staff writer at the Athletic covering the women's national team and the NWSL. |
| 0:33.3 | All right, so we do actually have a United States women's national team to discuss. |
| 0:37.9 | And things keep happening almost to the point where I would like everyone to take a nap for a week, |
| 0:43.1 | mostly so that way I could also sleep but finish the feature that I need to write this week. |
| 0:47.8 | But first, obviously, we've got a show for you. |
| 0:50.6 | And I am joined by Brooks Peck, one of my editors at The Athletic, and we are breaking down 2020, the year of Christy Mewis, that is in all caps, the year of Christy Mewis for you. Then Ariana Skavetti is here to help make sense of what is happening right now in France with the conflict between Amundi-Enri and Corinne Diochre going public. But before I get to my best attempt at catching you up on all the news that has been happening |
| 1:14.7 | first, you may have seen the Athletics Black Friday Cyber Monday sale for $1 a month, |
| 1:20.3 | and I have great news for you if you did not take advantage of it and felt like you missed out |
| 1:24.5 | because that deal is still running right now at theathletic.com |
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| 1:33.0 | So you actually have until 1159 p.m. on Friday night, that's Pacific Time, |
| 1:37.9 | to sign up as a new subscriber to the athletic for a year. |
| 1:41.1 | For $12, you will get a full season of NWSL coverage, plus the |
| 1:45.3 | U.S. Women's National Team runs through the 2021 Olympics, assuming, of course, that we have an |
| 1:49.7 | Olympics, and I still hop a flight to Tokyo. But either way, I will be guiding you through a full |
| 1:54.6 | year of women's soccer, and you can get that for $12 total. But you don't just get my NWSL and U.S. coverage. |
| 2:01.8 | You also get basically the whole damn site to boot every story, every feature news |
| 2:06.0 | podcast, you name it, plus the athletic app. |
| 2:08.6 | And if you listen to the show, you have heard me plenty on why I think it is super important |
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