Futbol W: Alyssa Thompson Debuts With Chelsea
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Tuesday. Clearly you know what that means. Welcome to Football W. He is Jeff Kusuf. I am Christina Alexander. We have a myriad of guests joining us through the hour because we have a lot to break down. |
| 0:20.2 | Alyssa Thompson saw her first few minutes with Chelsea. |
| 0:24.4 | And speaking of first, Jaden Shaw makes quite the debut with Gotham as well. |
| 0:29.2 | But as I mentioned, a few guests are regular two-time World Cup champion. |
| 0:34.2 | Nothing regular about that. |
| 0:35.6 | Allie Krieger. |
| 0:36.6 | But hey, look who's joining the show. |
| 0:38.9 | Leanne Sanderson. We know you're hanging out in Florida, Leanne, because we have a NWSL game coming up this weekend. How are you, Leanne? I'm doing great. Great to see you guys, as always. It's been another incredible weekend in NWS. So I can't wait to talk about it. Absolutely. Let's get right to it. Allie, |
| 0:55.5 | good to see you as well, but let's take it across the pond first here with the WSL and what we saw |
| 1:02.4 | with Alyssa Thompson and company, her debut first 45 minutes, a lot to break down here. |
| 1:07.3 | But, Leanne, I'm going to start with you. What did you make of her move and her recent |
| 1:12.3 | debut with the club? Yeah, this one torn me quite a bit because obviously I work in both leagues |
| 1:17.5 | in the WSL and at NWSL. I'm delighted for Alyssa. I think sometimes, you know, you have to make |
| 1:22.5 | those difficult decisions in your career, almost stepping outside your comfort zone, being away |
| 1:26.6 | from your family, away from a sister who we know is super close. And I love that little post that Giselle did the other day saying she missed her sister. Alyssa coming into the game, you can see how dynamic she can be. Chelsea has an array of talent, as we know, and it's going to be difficult for Alyssa to kind of get consistent minutes if she's not performing. But I like what she had to offer. You know, we saw her only in the space of 30 minutes exactly what she can do. She's dynamic. She was picking up the ball, playing 1v1. And she looked really confident. And sometimes it takes place a little while to adjust to whichever league they go to. But I'm seeing already early signs of exactly what she was doing at Angel City. Already doing it at Chelsea and she'll get even better. |
| 2:03.6 | And when her arms not in a cast, if you can do this in her arm, |
| 2:05.6 | heavily casted like that, imagine what she can do going forward. |
| 2:10.6 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 2:11.6 | Allie, as Leanne just mentioned, we're seeing the sparks already here with Chelsea. |
| 2:16.6 | And obviously, a lot of the |
| 2:19.0 | reasons why they have this confidence now in her to bring her over. What did you make of her |
| 2:24.2 | first minutes with Chelsea? Yeah, I agree with Leanne. Obviously, I echo everything she said on |
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