Gotham FC parts ways with head coach Scott Parkinson
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jenna Tonelli of All for XI/Nets Republic joins Meg and Steph to discuss Thursday’s breaking news that Gotham FC and head coach Scott Parkinson have parted ways, from what comes next to interim head coach options to offering up some possible solutions on the field to salvage the 2022 season at Red Bull Arena.
Follow Jenna Tonelli on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jennatonelli
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Our news story on Scott Parkinson: https://theathletic.com/3498443/2022/08/11/scott-parkinson-fired-gotham-fc/
Read Jenna’s story ‘As losses pile up, Gotham searches for an identity — and joy’ on Equalizer Soccer: https://equalizersoccer.com/2022/08/09/njny-gotham-fc-search-identity-joy-losing-streak-nwsl-analysis/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello. Welcome back to full-time with Meg Linnehan. I'm Meg. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the athletic podcast network. |
| 0:23.4 | Now, it is our usual day, but this is actually something of an emergency podcast following the news out of Gotham FC on Thursday. |
| 0:30.8 | The statement posted on the club's social media accounts is as follows. |
| 0:36.0 | New Jersey, New York, Gotham, FC, and head coach Scott Parkinson have |
| 0:39.5 | agreed to part ways effective immediately. General manager at Yale, Averbush West, and club |
| 0:45.2 | leadership will begin a methodological process of identifying and interviewing a talented |
| 0:52.0 | and diverse pool of candidates to serve as a head coach |
| 0:54.7 | for the 2023 season. An interim head coach will be announced shortly. Scott Parkinson also posted |
| 1:01.2 | his own farewell to the club, which began, thank you to Gotham FC and Yale for giving me the |
| 1:05.7 | opportunity to coach your team. It's been an honor. I gave my all to our club. To our players, I'll never forget my time |
| 1:12.6 | with you all. Most memorable was us not losing a single league game and reaching the playoffs in |
| 1:17.2 | 2021. It had been eight years since the last NWSL playoff for our club. We did that together. I'm going |
| 1:24.0 | to miss you all so much. He also shouted out the staff, in particular assistant coaches, Beviannas, and Becky Tweed, |
| 1:30.6 | and said he's excited for what's next. |
| 1:33.1 | So what does this news mean for Gotham? |
| 1:35.5 | Is their season still in play? |
| 1:36.9 | Is it time to move on to 2023? |
| 1:39.3 | We decided to throw it together a podcast today. |
| 1:42.3 | I'm here. |
| 1:43.0 | Steph Young is here, and we are joined by |
| 1:44.9 | Jenna Tenali of All for Eleven and Nets Republic who covers Gotham FC on the regular and actually |
| 1:50.1 | just also wrote a very lengthy article for Equalizer's Soccer about Gotham's woes pre-Scott |
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