It's A Beautiful New Day
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
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.
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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/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it has been a couple of weeks since our last episode, but welcome back to full-time with Meg |
| 0:21.9 | Linnehan. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Meg, your host, and I'm a national staff writer at The Athletic covering the NWSL and the |
| 0:32.1 | U.S. Women's National Team. Now, between a week of vacation before the madness of April truly set in and then a week |
| 0:38.6 | digging out from that vacation full time is now back in the swing of things which is good |
| 0:44.0 | because we have so much happening the NWSL Challenge Cup returns on Friday which also overlaps |
| 0:51.7 | with a major FIFA window full of international friendlies, including |
| 0:54.9 | two for the U.S. women's national team. We are expecting that settlement in the players versus |
| 0:59.5 | U.S. soccer lawsuit soon. Champions League is ongoing, basically, you name it. It is currently |
| 1:05.4 | happening. So I am back. I've got a quick guide to the Challenge Cup for you to just make sure that |
| 1:10.5 | you're set for all of the NWSL action ahead over the next month. |
| 1:14.1 | And then Elise LeHugh, GM of Gotham FC, formerly SkyBlue FC, joins full-time to share her perspective on the major news out of New Jersey slash New York this week. |
| 1:25.2 | As one of the oldest professional clubs opted for a new name, |
| 1:28.6 | a new crest, and a whole new look ahead of the 2021 season. |
| 1:33.7 | Now, as always, before we get started, your reminder that you can support this podcast |
| 1:38.5 | and also get all of the NWSL and U.S. Women's National Team coverage at The Athletic, |
| 1:43.3 | plus everything else we have to offer with the site and app by signing up for a new subscription at theathletic.com slash full time. |
| 1:51.9 | Right now when you visit Theathletic.com slash full time, you can start your new subscription for $3.99 a month. |
| 1:58.8 | Now, fun fact, if you are listening to this new episode on Thursday, April 8th, |
| 2:02.4 | the day that it released, it is the exact two-year anniversary of my first day, the athletic. Now, |
| 2:08.2 | it has been a wild ride, to say the least, we'll put it that way, and not just thanks to the |
| 2:13.7 | travel I usually do for this job. And while it has been two years in some ways, |
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