Creating a Paradigm for the NWSL

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

The Athletic

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4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Meghann Burke, recently named executive director of the NWSL Players’ Association, joins the show to discuss her new role with the PA, her roots in women’s soccer and law, the process of how a CBA gets made and how this will define the new paradigm for the National Women’s Soccer League. Follow Meghann Burke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/meghannburke Visit the NWSLPA website: https://www.nwslplayers.com/ Follow the NWSLPA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nwsl_players Yes, the schedule is out (2021 regular season edition): https://theathletic.com/news/nwsl-releases-schedule-for-2021-regular-season-which-kicks-off-may-15/HCmeVnzJNLzG A Saturday with NWSL Analitica tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-saturday-with-nwsl-analitica-tickets-152020195497 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to full-time with Meg Linnehan. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network.
0:23.4	I'm Meg, your host, as always, and a national staff writer at The Athletic covering the NWSL and the U.S. Women's National Team.
0:29.9	Challenge Cup is almost a wrap, but we're going in a slightly different direction today as new executive director of the NWSL Players Association,
0:38.9	Megan Burke joins the show to share what she can on the work that's really just beginning
0:44.4	to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement in the NWSL and how labor is going to help
0:50.5	create a paradigm for the league. Now, as always, before we get started, your reminder
0:56.4	that you can support this podcast and also get all of our NWSL and US Women's National
1:00.9	Team coverage at The Athletic, plus everything else we have to offer on the site and app by
1:05.5	signing up for a new subscription at theathletic.com slash full time. Right now, when you visit theathletic.com
1:12.4	slash full time, you can start your new subscription for $3.99 a month. We've got some news for you,
1:18.6	a little quick version of this, but of course, the schedule is out. I am free. Obviously,
1:25.7	there is a lot to talk about here, but a large part of my week has really
1:30.8	been the schedule. So there is a link for you to my news story on everything that we are talking
1:37.7	about when we talk about the schedule, including a couple of games that I've circled to watch.
1:41.2	Got some thoughts on the Olympic break. That is, or a lack of an
1:45.3	Olympic break to be more accurate. That link is free to read. But also, if you want even more,
1:53.5	I did do an Instagram live with Santa Herrera, obviously friend of the pod, right after the
1:58.3	schedule dropped, which is still up on her profile to watch,
2:01.9	or if you just want to listen to it, it's just honestly the two of us sitting behind our laptops
2:06.4	and talking about soccer. Also happening on Tuesday, we got a trade between Gotham FC and
2:12.2	O'L Rain with Allie Long headed back to the East Coast.
2:16.1	Gotham sent $80,000 in allocation money and Gotham FC's
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