Best of 2024 Part I: A year of NWSL record breakers
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
A legendary 2024 is drawing to a close. So Full Time has compiled a two-part 'Best Of' series to highlight our favorite moments and episodes from this past season.
In Part I, Tamerra Griffin guides you through the year's best NWSL interviews and discussions.
Re-live a conversation with Brianna Pinto, taking you inside the game-changing new collective bargaining agreement. Catch up with the record-shattering Temwa Chawinga and her appreciation for African fans bringing her traditional food to NWSL stadiums. Don't miss retracing a historic season for the Orlando Pride, the peerless Shield and Championship winners.
Plus, more highlights and chats from the 2024 NWSL season. Thank you for listening during this spectacular year, and we can't wait to see you in 2025.
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Podcasts mentioned on the show:
Inside the landmark new NWSL CBA with Brianna Pinto
Inside the Orlando Pride's journey to NWSL greatness with Haley Carter
Giving Temwa Chawinga her flowers
Juneteenth: Celebrating the culture with Croix Bethune
Hal Hershfelt interview, and NWSL awards debate
Orlando Pride are champions, and talking NWSL growth with Melissa Etheridge and Lo LaBonta
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HOSTS: Meg Linehan, Tamerra Griffin
GUESTS: Brianna Pinto, Croix Bethune, Hal Hershfelt, Temwa Chawinga, Jereko, Steph Yang, Haley Carter
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, and welcome back to full time with Meg Linnehan. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Tamara Griffin and I want to welcome you to the 2024 Best of Compilation episode series. This is part one, |
| 0:23.5 | where I am going to walk you through some of our favorite moments from the 2024 NWSL season. |
| 0:29.3 | Then in part two, Meg Linnehan will go through some highlights of the U.S. women's national |
| 0:33.4 | team's unforgettable year. But back to part one, you're going to be hearing from rookies who |
| 0:39.9 | entered the NWSL and left their mark in ways I don't think any of us are ever going to forget |
| 0:45.4 | anytime soon. You're going to hear from game changers who are taking this league to new heights, |
| 0:50.4 | a member of the NWSL Players Association who was present when that historic collective |
| 0:57.4 | bargaining agreement was signed back in August, and the NWSL MVP herself, Tamwa Shulinga. |
| 1:04.8 | Now, let's talk about this collective bargaining agreement, the CBA, because it was massive. When this was signed, |
| 1:12.9 | the NWSL became the first U.S. Professional Sports League to get rid of a pre-existing college |
| 1:19.0 | draft, huge, major, and very cool. So to honor that, we are going to revisit a conversation that |
| 1:27.0 | we had with NWSL PA member |
| 1:29.0 | Brianna Pinto, who was in Philadelphia when the seal was signed. |
| 1:33.7 | She talked to us about what it all meant, the work that went into it, and what it means |
| 1:37.9 | for the league moving forward. |
| 1:39.6 | We also chatted with Lola Bonta, the Kansas City Current, on the eve of the NWSL Championship in Kansas City, about what that collective bargaining agreement can mean for the sustainability of the league and other aspects of the league that she hopes to see some growth in. Take a listen. |
| 2:09.4 | What can you share with us about what it's like to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement? |
| 2:12.2 | Well, I was super proud to be there. |
| 2:20.0 | I was one of five players that decided to take their week off from the NWSL break and spend it in Philadelphia with the NWSLPA. |
| 2:22.6 | Megan Burke is our fearless leader and we just felt so empowered by her. |
| 2:27.6 | So she gave us all the knowledge and the confidence we needed to be in the room while |
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