I was doing my skincare late at night and I saw an email and I was like, I wonder why she's emailing me this late. Let me check it. And it actually happened to be from the team's operation manager or whatever. And I was like, and so I went to, my mom was helping me move in. So I went to my mom and I was whispering. I was like, and she wasn't awake. So I had to like shake her and wake her up.

And I showed her and she was like, she literally screamed at 12 midnight in my apartment complex.

And I was like, oh my back to full-time.

I'm your host, Jillian Zackavits.

In the first of two January friendlies,

the least cap U.S. women's national team starting 11 in 25 years thrashed Paraguay 6-0

at Dignity Health Sports Park.

So on the show today, I'll be getting into everything that we learned from what was

the team's first outing of 2026 with the athletics, Melanie Anzi Day. And after that, we'll have a

very special interview with Iio Eka, the defender, who earned a surprise call up to the national

team after Avery Patterson had to pull out due to illness. I think it's a safe bet to say we will be seeing her debut Tuesday against Chile.

And then to close out the show, I'll send it over to producer Theo, who caught up with

the Athletics UK team to break down an enthralling weekend of action on both ends of the table in the WSL.

Let's get into it.

Now is Rodman down the right side.

It's Trinity Rodman.

What's a week it has been for Trinity Rodman.

And she caps it off with a goal as the captain of her country today.

For more on the U.S. Women's National Team and so much more, we bring in another woman who is

braving the snowstorm that hit. I'm not even going to say the Northeast, the East,

the country, Melanie Ansiday coming to us from the state of New Jersey on this Monday. Hello, Melanie.

Hello, thank you for having me. It is very snowy outside. I feel like I spent the whole day recovering from just shoveling and so sore today from all of that.

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