Hello, welcome to full-time with Megalenehan. You are listening to a podcast all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network.

I'm Meg, your host, and I'm a staff writer at The Athletic covering the NWSL and the U.S.

Women's National Team.

So definitely a different episode for you today because this is actually a bonus episode.

Ali Wagner is on the pod to help us preview She Believes Cup so that way you know

exactly what you should be watching for ahead of this tournament. The game start on February 18th.

We've got three game days. We've got Brazil, Argentina, and Canada in the country. Every single

game in Orlando. Allie Wagner is going to be the analyst on every single US Women's National Team game.

And it is always great to pick her brain about how she is watching, how she is trying to think about this team,

and to basically, you know, actually figure out if we're on the same page or not.

So without any further ado, here is Ali.

First thing that I wanted to talk to you about, about She Belize Cup, is that, you know,

when you think about the history of this tournament, we're in the sixth edition now.

The opponents that we're used to seeing are the England's, Spain, France, Germany, like,

big kind of European teams.

Like, we used to kind of have a joke about it in the NWESOL office,

that this was like the winter prestige tournament

and that tournament of nations was just like pure chaos, summer fun, right?

But now, you know, we're getting teams

that we're not necessarily used to seeing in this tournament.

So how do we put the results for the U.S.

Women's National Team in the right context with this version of She Belief's Cup? Yeah, I think that's a

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