Making sense of Sean Nahas being fired for a 'multitude of factors'
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Full Time Focus, Meg Linehan and Producer Theo discuss the abrupt firing of Sean Nahas as the head coach of the North Carolina Courage, and the combative press conference with the club's sporting director Ceri Bowley that followed. What do we know at this time about the firing? And, why is it unclear what happened? Meg and Theo also talk about what it means for Nick Cushing to be hired as the first-ever head coach of Denver Summit FC, and give their takes on the 2025 Ballon d'Or nominees.
PLUS: Get focused with Full Time's 1-2-3 of what to watch this weekend in the NWSL, from Ally Sentnor returning to Utah for the first time to potentially make her debut with the KC Current, to head coach Alex Straus and Angel City's desperation to win the SoCal Derby.
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Referenced on the show:
North Carolina Courage terminates head coach Sean Nahas’ contract ‘effective immediately’
Denver Summit hires Nick Cushing as manager: ‘I want to embrace’ NWSL expansion challenge
Who should win the women’s Ballon d’Or: Aitana Bonmati, Alessia Russo, Chloe Kelly?
The secret to the Portland Thorns' home form
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HOST: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
GUESTS: Meg Linehan
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:35.7 | It was, I mean, Theo, I've never seen a press conference like that. |
| 0:40.3 | And you've been in a lot of press conferences make. |
| 0:42.8 | I've been in, I would say too many. |
| 0:45.2 | And you have their communications director coming in saying, like, |
| 0:48.4 | our priority is the game against Houston, but we understand there's other reasons why people are on this call. |
| 0:53.0 | Of course there are. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah. Houston, but we understand there's other reasons why people are on this call. Of course there are. Hello and a very, very warm welcome back to full-time focus presented by Amazon Prime. |
| 1:06.4 | Producer Theoloid Hughes here to be your host for this Friday edition of the full-time podcast |
| 1:11.3 | that gets you ready for the soccer weekend and takes you inside some of the best stories |
| 1:15.6 | on The Athletic this week. Coming up on today's show, I'll be joined by Meg Linnehan to get the latest |
| 1:21.1 | on the rather surprising dismissal of North Carolina Courage head coach Sean Nehas, |
| 1:26.8 | who had his contract terminated by the club on Wednesday. |
| 1:30.4 | As one coach leaves the NWSEL, another arrives, |
| 1:33.4 | so we'll also be reflecting on the hiring of Nick Cushing |
| 1:36.5 | as the first ever head coach of 2026 expansion team, Denver Summit FC, |
| 1:42.3 | and will also be discussing the 2025 Ballandoor nominees, which dropped on Thursday. |
| 1:49.4 | And then as always, we'll close out our show with the one, two, three of what to watch this weekend. |
| 1:55.7 | There's so much to get into. |
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