Just Another Manic Monday in the NWSL
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4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Meg and Steph are back for 2023, with so much happening on the first real Monday of the year that we needed an emergency pod. First up, new Portland Thorns FC head coach Mike Norris, then a discussion of the corrective actions and sanctions announced by the NWSL on Monday following the joint investigation, and finally, the major free agency news of the day: Debinha’s staying in the NWSL, and heading to Kansas City!
Portland Thorns promote assistant Mike Norris to head coach: What’s next for the NWSL side?Â
https://theathletic.com/4073756/2023/01/09/portland-thorns-coach-mike-norris/
How the Kansas City Current landed Debinha, the NWSL’s top free agent https://theathletic.com/4069897/2023/01/09/debinha-kansas-city-current-nwsl/
NWSL bans Paul Riley, Christy Holly and others following joint investigation https://theathletic.com/4073531/2023/01/09/nwsl-investigation-bans-suspensions-riley-christy/
All our NWSL investigation coverage:Â https://theathletic.com/tag/nwsl-investigations/
The Journey to the Cup: What you need to know as we prepare for Australia & New Zealand 2023 https://theathletic.com/4020580/2022/12/21/2023-womens-world-cup-dates-info/
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| 1:03.6 | Steph Young is back for the first show of the year, which we are recording on a Monday because so many things happened today that we just actually had to hop on streamyard and get to talking. Mike Norris is in as Thorns head coach. The NWSL dropped a list of |
| 1:16.2 | corrective actions and sanctions stemming from the joint investigation dropped in December of last |
| 1:20.4 | year and the Kansas City current landed the biggest free agent on the market to beena. |
| 1:26.9 | Before we get to the rest of today's |
| 1:28.3 | episode, as always, to show your support of full-time, plus get all of our women's soccer |
| 1:31.7 | coverage and everything else the athletic has to offer on our site and on our app. You can |
| 1:35.9 | subscribe right now at theathletic.com slash full-time. All right, here's stuff. |
| 1:43.8 | All right, let's start. I mean, we have three things to talk about, |
| 1:48.9 | and this is literally all just shit that happened today. So let's go in reverse. We'll start with |
| 1:54.7 | Mike Norris being finally announced as head coach of Portland. We both just got off that Zoom |
| 1:59.6 | with the new head coach of the Thorns |
| 2:02.5 | and general manager, Karina LeBlanc. And, you know, maybe this is not like the new story people |
| 2:09.3 | are going to like write home about for the day, but obviously this is one piece of a much bigger |
| 2:15.2 | story in Portland of you have a championship winning team that then has to |
| 2:19.3 | and you know their head coach departs after losing the locker room after successfully going through |
| 2:25.0 | and investigate like there's a lot to this and Portland is still up for sale we're going to talk about |
| 2:31.3 | other parts of that also happened today. But what are your, |
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