Journey to the Cup: Can the USWNT three-peat?
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This is a special "Journey to the Cup" episode brought to you by Google Chrome.
Meg is joined by Steph Yang and Jeff Rueter to discuss the final USWNT roster for the 2023 World Cup, player by player and position by position. From the team’s depth, to major injuries and absences, to the players who also had legit shouts at making the 23 — it’s a comprehensive look at the team that’s going to be aiming for a U.S. three-peat in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.
Initial thoughts from Steph on the roster: https://theathletic.com/4628045/2023/06/21/uswnt-world-cup-roster/
Jeff’s amazing breakdown of the USWNT roster with analysis of every player: https://theathletic.com/4628038/2023/06/21/uswnt-womens-world-cup-2023-squad-analysis/
You can follow all our 2023 World Cup coverage here: https://theathletic.com/football/womens-world-cup-soccer/
Read all of The Athletic’s Journey to the Cup coverage here: https://theathletic.com/tag/the-journey-to-the-cup/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Change isn't coming. It's already here. Commerce is going digital and tax complexity is multiplying. |
| 0:07.0 | Tax rules evolve, rate shift, data floods in. Vertex connects it all. |
| 0:15.0 | A global tax compliance platform powered by tax-ready data and intelligence systems. |
| 0:21.6 | Smarter tech, continuous tax compliance, built-in confidence. |
| 0:26.3 | Learn more at vertexinck.com. |
| 0:28.5 | Thank you. Welcome to full-time with Meg Linahan Journey to the Cup edition. I'm Meg, and this is a special episode brought to you by |
| 0:55.1 | Google Chrome. Google Chrome lets you save all of your passwords securely and use them on your computer |
| 0:59.6 | and on your phone. So you spend less time trying to remember your password and more time getting |
| 1:04.6 | things done. All your passwords remembered like magic. There's no place like Chrome. So we are we are so close to the world cup we're leaving |
| 1:14.3 | in a matter of a few days i mean you know like a couple of weeks but today i am joined by step young and |
| 1:20.5 | jeff rudder because we have now got the u.s women's national team roster in hand we've had a few days |
| 1:25.6 | to process it to think about how this might play out, |
| 1:28.4 | debate some other options, |
| 1:29.6 | think about the depth where players might play. |
| 1:31.7 | And now it's time to actually circle back |
| 1:33.7 | and have this discussion in a slightly more organized |
| 1:37.2 | since we tried outside of our usual Slack channels |
| 1:41.0 | and Slack debates and on this actual podcast. |
| 1:43.7 | So Steph, Jeff, let's get into it. |
| 1:46.6 | Steph and I were actually in France when this roster dropped. |
| 1:50.6 | But first I want to just start with initial reactions in terms of the news around it, |
| 1:56.8 | who we were reacting to. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.