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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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We are in the thick of the ‘Summer of Soccer’ – from the UEFA Women’s Euros, to CAF's Women’s African Cup of Nations, to FIFA's Men’s Club World Cup, and with the NWSL set to return on August 2nd – it is all happening. And, as I’m sure you’re experiencing, the summers are fraught with extreme heat, hurricanes, storms and droughts…and yet, the soccer still goes on.
On this week's Full Time, Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan to dive a little bit deeper into how the NWSL and global soccer intends to keep up with climate change – how can leagues, teams and governing bodies adapt to climate? Who does the responsibility fall on? And, how will soccer look in the future? To help do that, the podcast enlisted the help of climate sports researcher, and author of the book ‘Warming Up: How Climate is Changing Sport’, Dr, Madeleine Orr.
Articles referenced on the show:
Heat warnings in place for opening of Euro 2025
Extreme heat at the Club World Cup: Players and fans voice concerns as temperatures soar
Wimbledon play interrupted after spectator receives medical assistance on Centre Court
Extreme heat is disrupting athletic events worldwide. Is sports ready for the future?
NWSL postpones NJ/NY Gotham FC vs. Orlando Pride match due to poor air quality
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HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Meg Linehan
GUEST: Madeleine Orr, Wafaa Chalita
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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0:41.6 | Because I think there's two levels here, right? |
0:43.5 | There's like what is safe? |
0:45.2 | And that's one threshold. |
0:46.4 | And then there's like the threshold of like what's fun and competitive. |
0:49.1 | And those are two different things. |
0:50.2 | You can probably play in hot conditions. |
0:53.0 | In most cases, it's just not going to be fun and you're not |
0:57.4 | going to play well. And I think players want to play well. So like there's two conversations kind of |
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1:14.1 | Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to full-time. |
1:19.1 | I am your co-host Tamara Griffin, and we are in the thick of this summer of soccer. |
1:24.8 | We've got the women's euros, women's African Cup of Nations, Copa America Feminina, kicking off very soon. |
1:27.7 | The Men's Club World Cup, I don't know about you, but I'm having trouble keeping it all straight. But you know what else has been thick? The heat, which I'm sure |
1:32.5 | a lot of you are feeling being affected by, and it's only getting more intense. That's why we |
1:38.4 | decided to dedicate this episode to a deep and much-needed conversation about climate change and its impact across women's |
1:46.1 | soccer, not just in the NWSL, but globally, because this is a global issue, and it deserves |
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