Episode 24: Soccer! The NWSL season in review, World Cup qualifiers, and women's teams in revolt

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week, Brenda Elsey, Shireen Ahmed, Lindsay Gibbs, and Jessica Luther discuss football, or "soccer" as those in the US say. They talk the NWSL season and the bruising final, World Cup qualifiers, and all the women footballers around the world fighting for better treatment and better pay. Then Brenda interviews Brazilian football superstars, Sissi and Tafa! As always, you’ll hear the Burn Pile, Bad Ass Woman of the Week, and What’s Good in our worlds. For more info check our website: http://www.burnitalldownpod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:58.9	Welcome to this week of Burn It All Down.
1:04.1	It may not be the feminist sports podcast you want, but it's the feminist sports podcast you need.
1:10.1	I'm Brenda Elsie, Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University, and I get to steer the ship today.
1:10.8	Joined by Shereen Ahmed, freelance sports writer in Toronto, Lindsay Gibbs, sports writer at Think
1:15.7	Progress in D.C., and Jessica Luther, independent writer and author of unsportsmanlike conduct
1:21.1	college football in the politics of rape in Austin, Texas. Once upon a time, or like
1:27.3	1980, legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly
1:31.3	was interviewed, and the journalist began the question, football is a matter of life and death,
1:37.3	to which he interrupted. It's much more important than that. Today, at Burn It All Down, unless otherwise specified, football means the kind played around
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