Bonus Episode: NWSL is coming to Los Angeles
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A special bonus pod of Full Time with Meg Linehan — thanks to major NWSL expansion news, as the league has awarded a team to a new ownership group in Los Angeles. Meg is joined by two of the team’s founders: media and gaming entrepreneur Julie Uhrman and tech entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian (3:00) to discuss all things Angel City, and their hopes for the team ahead of the planned start in the 2022 NWSL season.
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:27.6 | tease and season, exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Hello and welcome to full time with Meg Linahan. I am your host, Meg Linnehan. I feel extremely confident that you are not |
| 0:55.5 | expecting an episode to show up in your feed on Tuesday, especially after I told you all that we |
| 0:59.9 | would actually be back on Friday to discuss the NWSL Challenge Cup semifinals and preview the championship |
| 1:05.0 | match. So that episode is still in the works, but we have such major NWSL news today that we had to |
| 1:10.5 | bring you an emergency |
| 1:11.5 | episode of full-time with Meg Lynnahan. So on Tuesday, the NWSL awarded an expansion team |
| 1:18.0 | to a new ownership group in Los Angeles. The team hasn't been formally named yet, but they've |
| 1:23.3 | coined themselves Angel City and they're planning on starting play in the 2022 NWSL season. |
| 1:29.7 | Back in June, I reported that these expansion talks were underway, but what I didn't have yet was the full list of the ownership group, and it is a truly incredible one. |
| 1:39.8 | So Angel City's ownership is led by actor and activist Natalie Portman, Karen Nortman, who's a partner |
| 1:45.8 | at Upfront Ventures, Media and Gaming entrepreneur Julie Irman, and tech entrepreneur Alexis Ohan. |
| 1:52.4 | So if you haven't read it yet, I actually have an article up on The Athletic with a long Q&A |
| 1:56.5 | with Natalie Portman discussing how she got involved in the NWSL and how she is all in on Angel City. |
| 2:02.5 | And plus, both Julie and Alexis are joining the pod today to discuss the team. |
| 2:07.6 | So that's actually not where the list ends. |
| 2:10.8 | Serena Williams and her daughter with Alexis, Alexis Olympia O'Hanian Jr., are both part of the founding investment group. |
| 2:17.9 | 14 former U.S. women's national team players are also in, including Mia Hamm, Julie Fowdy, |
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