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The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Emma Hayes’s USWNT looks ready to roll, and the Indiana Fever finally end their early-season gauntlet

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Just Women’s Sports

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4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week, Claire talks through the USWNT’s first friendly under new manager Emma Hayes, with a dominant 4-0 win over South Korea. She talks through big performances from Mallory Swanson and Tierna Davidson, a midfield that looks refreshed, and her own personal picks for the Olympic roster. Then, she digs into the big stories out of the WNBA this weekend, as the Indiana Fever finally end their early gauntlet of games, the Sun go 8-0, and the conversation off the court about fouls heats up.

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0:00.0

I do think Crystal Dunn is making this roster but here is may just overall question which is just I do think that Crystal Dunn has gone from a position where the US did not have a lot of depth to a position where they have a ton of depth.

0:11.8

I think it's interesting that Dunn is kind of getting this late career validation

0:15.6

of what she can bring in other areas to the team,

0:18.1

but I do think it legitimately puts her in a more tight race,

0:21.9

a more difficult race to make this roster. I think she is going to make

0:25.8

this roster for all of those things that I just said. I think her versatility and her ability

0:28.8

to be effective in the front line, but it just feels kind of ironic to me.

0:33.0

There has been a big push for done to finally get to move into the spaces of the

0:38.0

field where she feels most comfortable and I am very happy to see it.

0:41.0

I think it's kind of ironic, It is kind of coming at this this angle of well

0:45.2

suddenly she's in this very long line of wingers that we know are very talented

0:49.0

to the United States.

0:50.0

Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub I am

0:57.2

your host for Watkins it is Monday June 3rd and wow do we have much to discuss international soccer the US is on the right track as they move

1:07.5

towards the Olympics and we saw some emotions player in the W MBA as the league continues to morph and grow and turn into something new and we will get into all of it right now.

1:18.0

All right today we are going to start with the US women's national team.

1:23.4

We have started off the Emma Hayes era with a bang.

1:27.0

They have played their first game

1:28.6

under their new manager full time.

1:30.6

They won four to nothing over South Korea in front of a sold out crowd in Denver on Saturday

1:36.0

This has kind of been like a slow moving process. I think probably people have followed even this

1:40.3

podcast or followed JWS coverage. You know there was the roster that was announced

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