Jordyn Bugg, turning pro at 17 & Seattle Reign's identity
Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Full Time Focus, Jillian Sakovits has a feature interview with Seattle Reign and USYNT defender Jordyn Bugg. The 18-year-old reflects on her first year as a professional soccer player in the NWSL, what she has learned from the players she looks up to, such as Naomi Girma and Lynn BIyendolo, and what she learned from her recent trip to Germany with the USWNT U23s.
PLUS: Producer Theo catches up with Charlotte Harpur to talk England, after the sudden international retirements of Mary Earps and Fran Kirby, and vice-captain Millie Bright's withdrawal from the UEFA Women's European Championships. Jillian then closes out the show with her three things to watch for in upcoming NWSL weekend.
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Referenced on the show:
Inside Mary Earps’ shock England retirement: Anger from Wiegman, mixed feelings from team-mates
Millie Bright withdraws from England selection for Euro 2025
Introducing England Women’s Euro 2025 squad: Every player analysed
Curiosity and a new challenge drew former Bayern Munich Women’s coach to Angel City
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUESTS: Jordyn Bugg, Charlotte Harpur
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, it's Jillian Sackavits. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to Friday's full-time focus. |
| 0:17.8 | It's presented by Amazon Business. |
| 0:20.3 | On today's show, we've got a brilliant |
| 0:21.7 | conversation with Seattle Rain and USA U23 Defender Jordan Bug. After that, we'll check in on |
| 0:28.5 | what's the latest regarding England's national team roster announcement and some |
| 0:33.8 | surprise withdrawals ahead of the Euro 2025. And to close out the show, we'll get you all set for another NWSL weekend. |
| 0:41.3 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:53.0 | So now it is time to welcome in Defender for the Seattle rain. |
| 0:58.1 | Hi, Jordan. How are you? |
| 1:00.5 | Hi, I'm doing pretty good. |
| 1:02.4 | Good, good. Okay, so we're going to kick off this interview. |
| 1:04.7 | There's so much I want to talk to you about your season so far. |
| 1:08.0 | But we're going to start with a little bit of an icebreaker or sort. |
| 1:12.6 | So I want to know, Jordan, growing up, who did you watch and say, I want to do that? |
| 1:20.6 | Like soccer-related? |
| 1:22.2 | Sure. Or an athlete. |
| 1:25.6 | I think I was inspired by like Serena Williams and messy, of course, soccer related. |
| 1:32.6 | There's a lot of the female big sports leaders. |
| 1:36.9 | I think I watched like Serena Williams is a big one. |
| 1:40.0 | Obviously the women's national team players like Megan Rapino, Alex Morgan. |
| 1:48.4 | I think those were big people I looked up to just because they were doing so much at a time. |
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