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Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Kansas City Current head coach Matt Potter joins Full Time to discuss his path to the NWSL via NCAA and U.S. Soccer roles, the team’s culture and approach to external narratives and a chaotic end to the NWSL regular season, plus a whole lot more including a lovely story about Carla Overbeck. Plus: Meg gives a quick breakdown of the USWNT roster heading to England and Spain next month, and the NWSL playoff scenarios and schedule ahead of the final weekend of the regular season.
Matt’s not an active poster, but he is on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/MattPotter70
This week’s NWSL column from Meg and Steph: https://theathletic.com/3629516/2022/09/26/nwsl-mvp-candidates-debinha/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to full time with Meg Linahan. I'm Meg. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. We are back after an unexpected week off. It turns out trying to move to |
| 0:25.4 | another state is a lot of work on top of actual work. Who knew? But the good news is this week, |
| 0:31.1 | Kansas City current head coach Matt Potter joins the show on the heels of the team |
| 0:35.0 | clinching their 20-22 playoffoff birth last weekend with a 3-0 |
| 0:39.1 | win over the Washington spirit and is always doing plenty of interesting celebrations |
| 0:44.2 | along the way. It's a great conversation. Full time with Meg Lanhan is presented by |
| 0:49.8 | Klarna the new smart way to pay when you shop online for tickets, team merch, and more. |
| 0:56.0 | So before we get to the rest of today's episode to show your support of full-time, |
| 1:00.4 | plus get all of our women's soccer coverage, we're about to head to London, we've got playoffs, |
| 1:04.8 | we've got the NWSall Championship, we've got two more friendlies against Germany, |
| 1:08.3 | there's a lot happening, plus the results of the investigations |
| 1:12.5 | impending, but everything else that the athletic has to offer on our site, on our app, |
| 1:19.5 | across the world of women's sports, you can subscribe right now at theathletic.com slash full-time. |
| 1:25.5 | All right, scratching the surface of everything going on at the moment, I did want to break down the |
| 1:30.6 | U.S. |
| 1:32.1 | Soccer roster for you, and instead it is dropping on Thursday. |
| 1:35.8 | So it's going to have to wait until next week episode about the game in London, |
| 1:41.3 | unfortunately. |
| 1:42.6 | But I do want to just try to present to you what the NWSL weekend ahead means. |
| 1:50.2 | So there's a lot on the line for multiple teams. |
| 1:53.0 | So let's talk about the shield first. |
| 1:55.7 | There is one very simple option here that can eliminate a lot of math. |
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