Welcome back to full-time with Meg Linahan. I'm Meg. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. This week, we are posting as soon as this episode is actually finished being recorded because this morning, the NWSL announced that they have found their new commissioner in Jessica Berman. And after a full day of television and meeting the press, she's hopped on Zoom one more time to record with me here at full-time. We did not want to delay on this one. But before we get to the rest of today's episode, as always, to show your support of full-time, plus get all of our women's soccer coverage and everything else the athletic has to offer. On our site and app, you can subscribe right now at theathletic.com slash full-time.

On to the news.

Now, if you listened to last week's episode with Paul Tenorio, you knew that all eyes were on the U.S. soccer election for president.

Cindy Parlo-Cone narrowly won a new four-year term over former president, Carlos

Cordero.

It was very clear how deep the division between the state associations at the youth

and adult levels with the pro and national teams is at this point in time. Now, the meeting

itself is also a very fascinating one, maybe not for the best reasons. The technical difficulties

were definitely a factor with some folks in the room, but everyone voting remotely and we had this

wild Zoom echo, frustrating the speakers. But there was

more than the election at stake too with some resolutions on the table addressing homophobic chance.

That one was passed and gender equity at the Federation. And that one was essentially recommended

to a committee for more work with former national team player Daniel Slayton speaking up in a crucial

way to make sure the Federation gets that one right. So there's a lot there. I don't know if I

would recommend sitting through that entire YouTube stream, but between Friday's board meeting,

Saturday's annual general meeting, there's a lot to dig through and there's going to be a lot

to cover moving forward.

But of course, the big story out of the weekend was Parlo Cohn getting her new term.

There is, again, so much work ahead.

But before we move on to the rest of the news, here is her acceptance speech from the annual general meeting.

Wow.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you all for this amazing show of support.

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