Alex Scott talks Champions League and marking Marta | What it means for Cat Macario to join San Diego Wave FC?
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
What is it like to score the winning goal in a European final for your girlhood club, when you have been marking Marta all through the match?
On this episode of the Full Time podcast, Alex Scott joins the show for a special interview to reflect on exactly that, when she conquered the continent with Arsenal in 2007, and where dreams became a reality for the Londoner. Scott is now an ESPN presenter for the UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL) on Disney+, which will air all matches, including the quarterfinals on 24 & 25 March and 1 & 2 April, in the competition live, and also talks about her post-playing career in broadcasting, what has changed in the women’s game over the last 20 years, and why she thinks Emma Hayes is perfect for the U.S. women’s national team (USWNT).
PLUS: Host Jillian Sakovits unpacks Cat Macario’s reported transfer to the San Diego Wave with The Athletic’s Tamerra Griffin, and what it means for Chelsea, the Wave, the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), the USWNT, and the new era of big-money contracts in global women’s soccer. And, if all that wasn’t enough, the podcast also gives its thoughts on NJ/NY Gotham FC announcing its first official NWSL match in New York City.
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HOSTS: Jillian Sakovits, Tamerra Griffin
GUEST: Alex Scott
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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Referenced on the show:
Gotham FC to host Washington Spirit at Citi Field in first NWSL match in New York City
USWNT’s Catarina Macario set to join San Diego Wave from Chelsea
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know, it felt like that kid every time I put that kit on that I was so lucky to be playing for Arsenal. |
| 0:09.4 | And then to be given the task to mark the best player in the world, Marta, you know, that was my job in that game. |
| 0:16.9 | Stop Marta. I think for me to then go and get the game winning goal, I mean, it's just stuff that you can't write. |
| 0:24.5 | And to put my name down in history with the club was just, yeah, it's special. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello, hello, everybody, a very warm welcome to full timetime. My name is Jillian Zackvitz. What a brilliant show we have for you today. I'm going to be getting into all things. Kat Mikario on deadline day, moving to the San Diego Wave, her reportedly record-breaking contract agreement, what that all means for the global women's game and the new era of big money contracts. |
| 0:57.3 | And as if today's show couldn't get any bigger. |
| 0:59.4 | After that, we have an incredible one-on-one interview with England and Arsenal legend and the host of the Wayful Women's Champions League coverage on Disney Plus, the one and only Alex Scott. |
| 1:10.0 | Alongside me today, though, is the biggest of the biggest stars in Tamara Griffin, my co-host, |
| 1:15.8 | Hey, Tamara. |
| 1:17.0 | If only I was earning what I know Alex Scott and Kat Makari are going to be earning, |
| 1:21.2 | but I appreciate the love anyway. |
| 1:24.1 | It's not about the money, right? |
| 1:25.8 | As they say, in my book, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:29.8 | Tamara Griffin, and then we'll put Alex Scott and Kat McCarrow out a very close tie behind you, my friend. |
| 1:35.9 | I love that energy. |
| 1:37.3 | I'm in Aries, and we are like three days out from Aries season. |
| 1:40.5 | So this feels like a very fitting warm up for how much of an annoying problem I'm |
| 1:44.8 | going to be for anyone who's not a fire sign. What is Aries season mean? Aries season means gurg your loins |
| 1:50.0 | basically because fire signs have a lot of energy. Aries are very competitive. We're very intense. |
| 1:56.8 | We're ruled by Mars, which is the god of war. So we're always ready to throw hands for things that we feel passionately about. |
| 2:03.6 | What a way to start the season? |
| 2:04.9 | So it was Airy season when the NWSL season started? |
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