Hello, happy Friday. If you are listening to this on release date. You are listening to Full Time with

Meg Lennahan. I'm Meg. You are listening, of course, to a show all about women's soccer on the

Athletic Podcast Network. I am joined once again by a fellow Megan, even if this one has some

bonus letters in her name, we won't fight about how to spell Megan properly. It's fine. There's a lot of different

ways. Megan Burke, executive director of the NWSL Players Association is here to help break down

the newly signed collective bargaining agreement, which happened right before Angel City FC's debut game

on Friday night, with Burke and new NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman putting pen to paper on the document,

like right on the field.

A very fun moment.

The full PDF is public.

If you want to pause this episode right now and read it first, you are welcome to do that.

We have the link in the show notes.

But hopefully we're going to also make this document a little bit easier to understand.

You can understand some of the reasoning behind what the players were looking for out of this collective bargaining agreement

after this conversation. We've got some very specific details to get into. But before we get

in to the rest of today's episode, as always, if you would like to show your support of full-time,

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all right i feel like i personally have not slept in like at least a week uh went to l a

with step uh sorry for no new episode last week with the travel in my leg being out of practice for

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