Celebrating 25 years of the 99ers with Julie Foudy and Briana Scurry

Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week is the 25th anniversary of the U.S. women's national team winning the 1999 World Cup, so what better way to celebrate than by bringing two legendary players from that team onto the podcast? Hall of Famers Julie Foudy and Briana Scurry joined Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan to reflect on what made the 1999 team special, share stories of the past, and reveal how they were able to craft a unique legacy on and off the pitch that still resonates today. PLUS: Tamerra and Meg preview the USA's intriguing Olympic send-off match against Mexico. What is at stake in Emma Hayes' biggest test yet? Also, in the NWSL, the podcast discusses whether the Orlando Pride and the KC Current created a new rivalry and whether Marta celebrated her team's win too hard. HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Meg Linehan PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen ________________ Articles mentioned on the show: San Diego Wave president Jill Ellis denies former employee’s allegations of workplace abuse San Diego Wave, president Jill Ellis not found to have violated NWSL policy ________________ Get in touch: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.6	Tees and Seas apply. Hello, hello, hello, welcome back to full-time with Meg Linnahan.
0:47.3	I am Tamara Griffin, and I can feel the Olympics just breathing down my neck at this point.
0:56.0	So much to talk about as always.
1:01.8	Let's dive right into it. I'm joined, of course, by my co-host Meg Linahan. Meg, how are you doing?
1:07.1	Good. I feel like not only Olympics, but I've got to get ready for this trip to New York City for this weekend's U.S. Women's National Team game and obviously the celebration
1:11.9	of the 99ers, which is today's theme. But yeah, everything, I mean, you know, NWSL is is done
1:19.5	for a little bit now. So like that feels like maybe okay, we're, we're not free. We're
1:24.6	never free. Never free. But we don't really want to be either, right? I mean,
1:29.2	this is the life we chose. Today, we are going to be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the U.S.
1:36.9	Women's National Team winning the 1999 World Cup, which will be commemorated this weekend when the
1:42.9	current U.S. women's national team takes on Mexico in New Jersey. Later on, Meg and which will be commemorated this weekend when the current U.S. Women's National Team takes
1:44.9	on Mexico in New Jersey.
1:47.0	Later on, Meg and I will be joined by two of those legendary 99ers, National Soccer Hall of
1:53.1	Famers as well, Julie Fowdy and Brianna Scurry.
1:56.2	Then after that, we will be discussing what's at stake when the U.S. women's national
2:00.1	team faces Mexico, because we all know what happened the last time those two teams met at the Gold Cup,
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