Has Spanish women's soccer changed since the 2023 World Cup?
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week on Full Time, Meg Linehan is joined by The Athletic's Barcelona-based Spanish soccer writer Laia Cervello to discuss the state of the country's women's national team.
On November 1, Netflix released a documentary titled 'It's All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football' about Spain's 2023 World Cup triumph and the aftermath that brought the federation into disrepute.
But, 16 months later, the Full Time podcast wonders, has Spanish football really changed all that much?
Cervello sheds light on how new head coach Montse Tomé is perceived, what sort of investment (or lack thereof) is happening in Liga F, as well as breaking down the context behind some of the key scenes from the Netflix documentary.
PLUS: It has been a very busy week in the NWSL, with stadium issues escalating in Boston and end-of-season roster retention lists due at the league HQ. So, with Tamerra Griffin away on holiday, producer Theo Lloyd-Hughes hops on the show to unpack all the latest news with Meg.
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What I learned from Netflix’s ‘The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football’ documentary
BOS Nation FC hire former FC Barcelona executive as new general manager
BOS Nation FC is set to join NWSL in 2026, but a lawsuit over the stadium could derail the debut
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HOSTS: Meg Linehan, Theo Lloyd-Hughes
GUESTS: Laia Cervello
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:27.6 | season, exclusions apply 18 on vacation this week. So that means producer Theo Lloyd Hughes |
| 0:56.1 | is on the mic with me, which also means I get to pick his brain about what's happening with |
| 1:00.9 | the Houston Dash because there's a lot of news happening of late. On this first part of the |
| 1:05.0 | episode, we're going to be diving into all of the offseason moves and chaos in the NWSL and check |
| 1:10.0 | in on those stadium plans for Boston. |
| 1:13.5 | We've got plenty of news on that front. |
| 1:15.8 | And then in part two, we're going to be joined by the athletics live surveyor about the Spanish |
| 1:20.2 | women's national team, the new Netflix documentary on what happened at the World Cup. |
| 1:24.9 | So P.S. if you have not yet seen that and you don't want spoilers, though everything happened in real life. Are there really spoilers for a documentary? I don't know. But we're going to be talking about that. 16 months on from winning a World Cup where the team is, where the professional league in Spain is, a whole bunch of really good stuff with her. So stay tuned on that. But first, |
| 1:45.0 | Theo, like, hey, welcome to the video side of things. Hello. Good morning. Yes, it's quite no |
| 1:53.8 | racking, isn't it? Trying to do my best Tamara Griffin impression. Bear with me, listener, viewer. |
| 2:00.7 | I will try my best, but it's lovely to be here. |
| 2:03.1 | So much happening in the NWSA, isn't it? It's breathless. I mean, let's start with Boston. |
| 2:07.9 | We got to. We got to. All right. So Boston Stadium is kind of the big thing. Obviously, |
| 2:13.9 | they have now hired their general manager. So things are finally starting to happen on the |
| 2:17.7 | soccer side, but then they have this press conference, Zoom, with their controlling owner, Jennifer Epstein, |
| 2:27.1 | and their new general manager. And the first question is, of course, about stadium, not about general |
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