Arsenal won the inaugural FIFA Women's Champions Cup this past weekend.

But what did we learn about the state of the game?

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to this week's episode of The Late Sub.

I am your host, Claire Watkins.

It is Tuesday, February 3rd.

And we're going to take a big picture approach to this.

We're going to look at some of just what FIFA's priorities were with this particular competition, some of the things that went well, kind of the tantalizing football

elements that were easy to get swept up in. Also some logistical challenges that make it very

obvious that the powers that be need to make some adjustments and have some learnings if the

28 Club World Cup is going to reach its full potential.

A lot to dive in here.

Let's dig in.

So this past weekend, Arsenal, wins the inaugural FIFA W or FIFA Women's Champions Cup, defeating Brazilian champion

Corinthians 3 to 2 in extra time on Sunday. We touched on this briefly last week, but Gotham did

get third after losing to Corinthians, 1 to nil in the semifinal, and then defeating Moroccan

champion as far 4-0 in the third place game arsenal taking

the win here not unexpected they're a great team in in midseason form but corinthians i think

defeating you know the reigning n w s l conca calf champions and taking the champions league title holders to

extra time is the real big

soccer story in a really fun way. There's a lot of interesting things, I think, about the

Women's Champions Cup, what it means for these teams, what it means for the landscape of

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