Boston Breakers Forever
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The NWSL Challenge Cup final is set for Sunday between the Houston Dash and Chicago Red Stars (12:30 ET/CBS), and Steph Yang of All for XI (2:31) joins the pod to talk about the tournament, take a stroll down memory lane with it comes to the Boston Breakers, and also determine what NWSL players we would want for back-up in a fight. You know, the usual for the two of us.
Find all of our NWSL coverage here: https://theathletic.com/nwsl/
Sources: Sam Mewis joining Manchester City, Rose Lavelle considering offer: https://theathletic.com/1940211/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello for the second time this week, I'm Meg Linahan back with another episode of |
| 0:20.4 | full-time, a podcast |
| 0:21.5 | about women's soccer from The Athletic. We're down to the final game of the NW. Sall Challenge |
| 0:25.9 | Cup, and today I'm joined by Steph Young of All for 11 to dissect the semifinals, preview the |
| 0:30.7 | championship match, and talk about the tournament as a whole. And we also got into plenty of |
| 0:35.4 | your questions from Twitter, which will get as weird as you expected them to. |
| 0:40.3 | But first, let's catch up on the news. |
| 0:42.3 | We're recording all of this episode on Thursday, July 23rd, and we'll be talking a lot more about these games, so I'll keep this part brief. |
| 0:49.8 | In Wednesday's first semifinal, the Houston Dash defeated Portland Thorns FC 1-0, with the game-winning |
| 0:55.2 | goal provided by Rachel Daly in the 69th minute. The night game was a fun mix of, the night |
| 1:00.5 | game was a fun mix of NWSL after dark energy mixed with NWSL Chaos Cup. The Chicago Red |
| 1:06.4 | Stars had gone up 3-0 on Sky Blue FC before SkyBlue came storming back and struck twice. |
| 1:11.9 | Ultimately, the comeback did fall short, and the Red Stars advanced to the final |
| 1:15.0 | with the final score of 3-2. |
| 1:17.6 | That means our NWSL Challenge Cup final is set. |
| 1:20.8 | The Houston Dash take on the Chicago Red Stars this Sunday, July 26th, at 12, 30 p.m. Eastern. |
| 1:27.0 | If you're in the U.S. and Canada, the game will be on |
| 1:29.2 | big CBS, but also streamed on CBS All Access. International fans can watch on Twitch. |
| 1:34.7 | Now, the league will be looking for an increase in viewership thanks to the return to CBS, |
| 1:38.6 | building off the 572,000 people who tuned into the tournament opener between Portland and North Carolina. |
| 1:45.3 | There is also obviously major news from Los Angeles this week. If you caught our bonus episode, |
| 1:50.4 | you know all about that, but also just reported today on Thursday at the athletic, |
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