Hi, Meg Linnehan here. I'm your friendly neighborhood staff writer at The Athletic covering women's soccer, including the U.S. Women's National Team and the National Women's Soccer League.

I'm super excited to tell you that we're taking our coverage to a whole new level this month with a weekly podcast on women's soccer. Starting

Thursday, June 25th on full-time with Meg Linnehan, and I promise at some point I will probably

get used to my name being in the title. I'll fill you in on the major stories every week, but my

main goal is taking my love of future stories full of nuance and detail and bringing that energy to full-time. Plus, I'll have plenty of interviews with insiders from around the game, including my fellow writers in the soccer world. It's not just what's happening on the field either, even as the NWSL prepares to kick off the Challenge Cup in Utah at the end of the month. I've never shied away from the bigger picture and full-time will be more of the same as we tackle the culture, context, and conversations about the sport here in America and beyond. If you want to hear full-time ad-free, head to theathletic.com or the athletic app. If you haven't subscribed yet, well, it's the perfect time for it to make sure that you catch all of our Challenge Cup coverage.

Plus, we have a great deal for 40% off a new annual subscription if you head to Theathletic.com

slash full time.

Again, that's Theathletic.com slash full time.

You get to show ad free.

You get all of our women's soccer coverage, plus everything else we have to offer.

But no matter what, you can always listen to full-time with Megalenehan every week on Apple, Spotify, or your podcast platform of choice.