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Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

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4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Full Time with Meg Linehan is back from vacation mode and just in time for the kick off of the 2021 NWSL Challenge Cup. Alyse LaHue, just updated her job title from general manager of Sky Blue FC to general manager of NJ/NY Gotham FC, and she joined the podcast to go in-depth on the decision to rebrand one of the most historic pro women’s soccer clubs in the country. For everything Gotham FC: https://www.gothamfc.com/ Follow Alyse LaHue on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alahue Challenge Cup guide: https://theathletic.com/2438627/ Read “The NWSL Policy on Transgender Athletes is Not a Policy of Trans Inclusion” at The Victory Press: https://victorypress.org/2021/04/03/the-nwsl-policy-on-transgender-athletes-is-not-a-policy-of-trans-inclusion/ Get Erica L. Ayala to the 2022 Winter Olympics! https://gofund.me/f0aa76ac Full Time with Meg Linehan listener survey: https://forms.gle/9TS7CKXpF5vwY76E9 For more on Full Time: https://fulltimepod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Sun Express Airlines.
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0:23.1	tan later at sunexpress.com and secure your seats today. Hello, it has been a couple of weeks since our last episode, but welcome back to full-time with Meg Linnehan.
0:52.0	You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network.
0:57.2	I'm Meg, your host, and I'm a national staff writer at The Athletic covering the NWSL and the U.S.
1:01.8	Women's National Team.
1:02.7	Now, between a week of vacation before the madness of April truly set in and then a week,
1:08.7	digging out from that vacation full-time is now back in the swing of
1:12.6	things, which is good because we have so much happening. The NW.S. Challenge Cup returns on
1:19.6	Friday, which also overlaps with a major FIFA window full of international friendlies,
1:24.2	including two for the U.S. women's national team. We are expecting that settlement in the players versus U.S. soccer lawsuit soon. Champions League is ongoing,
1:32.5	basically, you name it. It is currently happening. So I am back. I've got a quick guide to the
1:38.5	Challenge Cup for you to just make sure that you're set for all of the NWSL action ahead over the next
1:43.0	month. And then Elise LeHugh, GM of
1:45.6	Gotham FC, formerly SkyBlue FC, joins full-time to share her perspective on the major news out of
1:52.5	New Jersey slash New York this week as one of the oldest professional clubs opted for a new name,
1:58.2	a new crest, and a whole new look ahead of the 2021 season.
2:03.3	Now, as always, before we get started, your reminder that you can support this podcast
2:08.0	and also get all of the NWSL and U.S. Women's National Team coverage at The Athletic,
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