England’s next gen, the Russo and Mead combo, and Spain march into the Olympics
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
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4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The girls are apart this week with Rach in Marbella and Chloe… not in Marbella, sadly. So there is lots to catch up on from the international break!
They discuss Grace Clinton’s dazzling England debut on Friday and - with more members of the U23 squad being brought into Sarina Wingman’s plans - identify the rising stars you should be looking out for on the road to Euro 2025.
Plus, Spain have qualified for their first Olympics – but what’s going on with Alexia Putellas? And there’s an update from the Gold Cup, where an incredible unbeaten streak finally comes to an end…
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Up Front, I'm Chloe Morgan and I'm Rachel of Sullivan. |
| 0:05.0 | The Laieles hit Austria for 7 on Friday and it was a brilliant debut for Grace Clinton. |
| 0:11.0 | We're here with our thoughts on England's free scoring performance while |
| 0:14.5 | Rachel brings the latest vibes update from the camp out in Marbaya. |
| 0:19.1 | Serena Bigman has also brought some of the under 23s into the senior setup for training. So who are the |
| 0:25.2 | rising stars that you should be looking out for in the run up to Euro 2025? We give |
| 0:30.4 | our picks. And finally Spain have qualified for the Olympics for their very |
| 0:35.7 | first time but what is going on with Alexia Puteus. Rach, I'm not going to lie. |
| 0:46.3 | Before you went away to Marbaya, I felt very, very jealous that you were heading out |
| 0:49.5 | to a sunny country, going to get an awesome tan, going to go out, |
| 0:52.1 | what's the INS is for the first time in |
| 0:53.6 | 2024. I tuned in on Friday in Brighton, I'll come to my moment of the weekend in a second, |
| 0:59.4 | to see the rain flooding the pitch. I've got to say I did feel a little bit smug I'm really sorry I |
| 1:06.0 | apologize in advance I love that you thought I was going to get a really good |
| 1:09.9 | tan in a week that's the best bit out of that whole intro. |
| 1:14.0 | But I just felt quite good. I felt quite, I felt quite that I wasn't going to, you know, |
| 1:19.0 | I wasn't going to get a massive FOMO from the weekends. That was the fear, wasn't it? |
| 1:22.0 | You're sort of, you know, you're going to be out there with the |
| 1:23.7 | Lai Lesses and the under 23 squad. A kind of a chance to see this an incredible squad rotation |
| 1:28.3 | that we'll get into in a little bit later. But yeah, I mean what's been the kind of highlight of the |
| 1:32.1 | weekend out in Marbs for you? |
| 1:35.0 | Well, I was going to pick a different, I'll tell you my highlight of Marms, but let's go, my general highlight, |
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