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. I'm Meg, your host, and I'm a national staff writer at The Athletic

covering the NWSL and the U.S. Women's National Team. It is Pride Month. And the NW.S.

is apparently celebrating that by having the undefeated Orlando Pride at the top of the table. Plus, we've got the summer series with the U.S. Women's National Team starting next week down in Texas. Now, on today's show, we've got

double the full-time women's soccer reporters as Steph Yong joins the show on her second day

here at The Athletic, but honestly, we're just doing our usual thing, talking soccer, and

answering some of your questions. And speaking of Steph, this is why the athletic, but honestly, we're just doing our usual thing, talking soccer, and answering

some of your questions. And speaking of Steph, this is why I always tell you how important

your support of this work, this podcast, and our women's soccer coverage is. I'm so thrilled

that I do not have to keep the secret anymore because also I was just honestly not the best

at keeping it, but because it's because our women's soccer

coverage has been such a success that we are able to keep building and keep growing. And it doesn't

have to end here either. So as always, if you're enjoying the podcast and you want to read our

women's soccer coverage and everything else the athletic has to offer, visit

theathletic.com slash full-time and start your new subscription. Just a few quick items for this

week's news. On Wednesday, Houston announced Maria Sanchez will be joining the team on a short-term

loan for the month of June. Sanchez will be available for three matches this month after just

winning the Liga MX Feminol Championship with Tigres. And Dash have been busy this week across

the board. They also picked up forward Jasmine Spencer via a trade with O.L. Rain, sending a 22 third-round

draft pick to the Pacific Northwest. Finally, all eyes were on the Leon versus PSG match

in France that was expected to act as the title decided for the league. And thanks to that

nil-nil draw, PSG have inched one step closer to upending Leon's dominant streak of 14 league

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