Getting Off the Bench
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Full Time is back for 2021! The January camp roster is in for the USWNT, and Meg kicks the year off with writer and activist Shireen Ahmed to discuss how sports (and women’s sports in particular) can be drivers of change, the state of the Canada women’s national team, and plenty more.
For more on Full Time with Meg Linehan: https://fulltimepod.com
Read “After an agonizing year, sport must be a vehicle for change in 2021” by Shireen Ahmed: https://www.tsn.ca/shireen-ahmed-after-an-agonizing-year-sport-must-be-a-vehicle-for-change-in-2021-1.1570552
Follow Shireen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_shireenahmed_
Read “Inside the WNBA’s evolution from a league of activists to organizers” by Chantel Jennings: https://theathletic.com/2137508/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to full-time with Megalahan. Thanks for tuning into this podcast, |
| 0:20.7 | which is all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. I am your host as always, as it says in the title, Meglinhan, and I'm a staff writer at The Athletic covering the NWSL and the U.S. Women's National Team. And welcome back. I am back after an attempt of vacation, which mostly went well. And then my first day back to work |
| 0:38.2 | this past Monday, my dog ended up at the vet with a minor injury and is now sitting next to me |
| 0:42.7 | in a cone. She is both sullen and confused about the start of events, but she is already |
| 0:47.5 | fully back to running and begging for food. And we are fully back here. And we are kicking off |
| 0:52.7 | 2021 here at full time with Megalindahan with Shereen Ahmed, a freelance writer, activist, public speaker, host of Burn It All Down and a good friend to boot even if we discuss later, we might end up on opposite sides of the not so friendly USA Canada hockey rivalry. |
| 1:09.0 | But before I fully get back into the swing of things here, |
| 1:13.1 | while our holiday promo might have ended, you can still start off your 2021 with a full year |
| 1:17.7 | of women's soccer coverage, plus everything else we have to offer at the athletic, |
| 1:21.6 | including WNBA, MLS, plenty more by visiting theathletic.com slash full time. And we have an offer running for listeners of this |
| 1:29.6 | podcast for $3.99 a month for your new subscription right now. Again, if you subscribe via that link, |
| 1:36.0 | you are helping to show that we have been building a market for women's soccer coverage here |
| 1:39.5 | at the athletic. So if you want in for this full year of coverage through the NWSL Challenge Cup, |
| 1:45.1 | round two, right? |
| 1:46.0 | And then the return to a regular season plus the Olympics in a full year for the U.S. |
| 1:49.3 | women's national team, that's Theethletic.com slash full time. |
| 1:53.7 | So while the pace wasn't quite at the speed that we are all used to, |
| 1:58.1 | the news did keep coming during the holiday break with more |
| 2:00.8 | trainings happening around the league, including the bigger ones of Malpue and Sarah Waldmo to |
| 2:05.5 | Chicago and Emily Sondit to Orlando. But one piece of news that I really want to focus on is the |
| 2:11.6 | new shift happening where the U.S. national team players are now allowed to turn down U.S. |
| 2:16.1 | soccer-funded NWSL salaries, which is commonly |
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