How a depleted Washington Spirit finally beat the Orlando Pride
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The Orlando Pride looked unbeatable through four weeks of the NWSL. Then, a depleted Washington Spirit, missing 11 players including Trinity Rodman, came along.
On this week's Full Time Review, host Jillian Sakovits discusses how the Spirit pulled off the biggest result of the 2025 season so far, as well as the other top stories from the NWSL weekend.
PLUS: The Athletic's Laia Cervello also joins the podcast to report on the UEFA Women's Champions League semifinal first legs, where Barcelona humbled Chelsea.
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Articles mentioned on the show:
Trinity Rodman stepping away from Washington Spirit to address back issues
Depleted Spirit defeats reigning NWSL champion despite Trinity Rodman’s absence
USWNT’s Trinity Rodman: ‘I don’t know if my back will ever be 100 percent’
Barcelona punish Chelsea to take three-goal lead in Women’s Champions League semi-final
Arsenal endure their reminder of Lyon’s pedigree but still go to France with hope
Arsenal edged out by Lyon in first leg of Women’s Champions League semi-final
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUEST: Laia Cervello
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:13.7 | It's a very warm welcome to full-time review. |
| 0:17.4 | It is presented by Amazon Business. |
| 0:19.8 | The Athletics Women's Soccer Weekend Review |
| 0:21.9 | Show that gets you all caught up on all the action from the NWSL and around the world in under |
| 0:27.0 | 20 minutes. So let's get into it. Today, I'll be running down the top headlines from a monumental |
| 0:32.7 | weekend in the NWSL. Then producer Theo will join me to unpack this weekend's big topic. |
| 0:39.1 | How did an injury-riddled Washington Spirit Side become the first team to beat the Orlando |
| 0:44.6 | Pride this season? |
| 0:46.1 | And after that, Laya Surveo will join the show from Barcelona to talk about the women's |
| 0:50.9 | Champions League semifinals. |
| 0:52.9 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:54.4 | Finally, there is a clear leader in the NWSL, and that is the Kansas City Current, who after |
| 0:59.3 | five games in remain perfect. Five wins from five games with a two-nill victory over the Houston |
| 1:05.4 | dash. That was the Kansas City Current fourth straight clean sheet, 401 minutes without conceding |
| 1:10.7 | a goal this season. |
| 1:12.4 | And a new record for consecutive NWSL regular season wins going back to last season. |
| 1:17.8 | The Kansas City Current have now won nine straight. |
| 1:21.9 | Lola Bonson rips this one past Jane Campbell and gives Kansas City a very familiar lead at home. |
| 1:31.0 | Following that goal from the spot, Lola Banta celebrating with a ballerina twirl of sorts |
| 1:36.3 | as her Kansas City side takes the top of the NWSL table after match day five. |
| 1:42.3 | Aside from showing that this KC side can score and play in a variety of ways, you can just |
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