Briana Scurry & Aly Wagner on how will the past shape the future of women's soccer?
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
For the first time, the Full Time podcast hosted a live event at the 2025 NWSL Championship in San Jose, CA, where U.S. women's national team legends Briana Scurry and Aly Wagner discussed how the past can shape the future in women's soccer.
Hosted by The Athletic's Meg Linehan and Tamerra Griffin, the conversation touched on the rise and fall of the Women's United Soccer Association, off the back of the hosting and winning the 1999 World Cup, as well as the nuances of why major investors are now entering women's soccer like never before.
We hope you enjoy this first live event podcast recording, which was recorded at The Preserve in downtown San Jose, the morning of the 2025 NWSL Championship final, on November 22, 2025.
Thank you to all who attended and helped to make it happen.
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HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Meg Linehan
GUESTS: Briana Scurry, Aly Wagner
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | So then all of a sudden, we had a bunch of people who had deep pockets and big ideas and no plan. |
| 0:10.0 | When you look back on it, it's like, duh. |
| 0:12.3 | But in the middle of it, it's like, oh, this is fun. This is great. |
| 0:15.6 | Like, he had daughters, you know, never going to play soccer. |
| 0:18.5 | And he was going to own a team. And it was wonderful. |
| 0:21.3 | And the fact that his buddy said yes was a miracle. |
| 0:24.7 | This miracle after miracle after miracle happened to even get that going. |
| 0:29.2 | And then we started and we threw money in the air all over the place. |
| 0:35.6 | I mean, the league offices were like downtown New York. |
| 0:39.7 | Downtown New York. |
| 0:40.9 | The cash room. |
| 0:41.5 | Not the best place to have, you know, the headquarters. |
| 0:47.7 | Hello and welcome back to the full-time podcast. |
| 0:55.5 | I am producer Theo, just setting the scene as we get you ready for another very special interview episode. |
| 1:01.8 | This was recorded live in San Jose, a beautiful plant shop not too far from PayPal Stadium. |
| 1:07.6 | The Athletic held a really, really insightful panel with former US |
| 1:13.0 | women's national team players, Bryce Scurry and Ali Wagner. They were joined by your full-time hosts, |
| 1:18.8 | Tamara Griffin, Meg Linnehan. And they talked about the eras of women's soccer, what we can learn |
| 1:23.9 | from the past and where we are heading to in the future. We thought it'd be really |
| 1:27.6 | great to get it out this week in a special podcast form and thank you so much to everyone who came |
| 1:31.2 | out to that event as well. In case you missed it, go check out your podcast feed which has everything |
| 1:35.6 | you need from the past week which includes your NWCL final recap reaction episode recorded |
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