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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone's a star Baby is a star I'm here you are I want to feel your baby To be Yeah You're something to be Everyone's a star A star A star Everyone Everyone's a star Everyone's a star Thank you. Welcome to a very special. Welcome to a very special edition of Football W. |
| 0:35.6 | I only don't say that because Ali Krieger is in studio, Christina, Alexander, |
| 0:40.3 | but because we are so excited to break down our women's rank, |
| 0:45.0 | the best 50 players, our top 50 of the year. |
| 0:48.9 | And of course, we can't do it alone. |
| 0:51.1 | Well, coming up, Aitana Mon Mati sits down with our Jemazolet, but we are also joined by |
| 0:56.2 | the amazing Natalia Strain. I have the wonderful experience to have her as my analyst. You've heard |
| 1:02.8 | us in Spanish many times for NWSL. She also calls games for the Women's Champions League. |
| 1:09.5 | I feel very strange talking to her in English, |
| 1:12.3 | but I'm very excited. Thank you. Both of you. Thank you. Let's try, Christina. Coach, how's it going? |
| 1:20.9 | Amazing. This is a big pleasure to be with you both. Imagine. I don't know if it is a dream or is real, |
| 1:26.7 | but I'm here. Let's try. |
| 1:28.9 | Hey, we're all going to pinch ourselves because it is a dream to be able to talk about such |
| 1:32.8 | talented players. But before we get into it, we're going to show you a little bit of our |
| 1:38.3 | methodology behind the method to the madness, if you will, here to our top 50. Our voting panel consists of these |
| 1:47.5 | names, Natalia Stein being one of them, Ali Krieger as well, Emily Kiyah, Caitlin Murray, |
| 1:54.8 | our Jeff Kizuf as well. Shout out to her Jeff Kiz. Sam U.S. too. Hey, they put my name |
| 1:59.9 | right next to Sam Lewis. That's pretty cool. Mark Parsons. I mean, there's a lot of us who really just contribute and they're made up of current and former coaches, general managers, administrators, players, and journalists. This is truly an honor to be able to be able to be a part of this list and to just be able to really put the passion into this kind of list that we're able to experience year round. |
| 2:23.1 | So we're going to talk about a little bit of what we saw last year as well. |
| 2:27.8 | The top three, when it comes to 2024, I mean, there's three U.S. players in the top 10. |
| 2:33.3 | When it comes to expectations, Allie, the names that you're maybe hoping to see or expecting to see. |
| 2:40.7 | What do you think? |
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