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Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

Making sense of World Sevens Football with Tobin Heath

Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

The Athletic

News, Soccer, Sports News, Sports

4.8756 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It has been billed as women's football 'reimagined' but with the inaugural edition behind us, what really is World Sevens Football (W7F) offering to the sport's global ecosystem?


This week on Full Time, hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan are joined by USWNT legend Tobin Heath to discuss her role as the chair of player advisory council in developing the innovative seven-a-side tournament. Why was W7F such a breath of fresh air for players, and how can W7F disrupt the status quo?


Then The Athletic's Charlotte Harpur, joins the podcast to give her perspective from covering the W7F on the media side and the concerns regarding its hand-picked competing teams. Plus, Charlotte gives her inside view on Tuesday's sudden news that Mary Earps has retired from international soccer.


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Articles mentioned on the show:

Inside World Sevens Football: A $5m prize pot, rolling subs, DJ sets and plenty of personality

Inside Mary Earps’ shock England retirement: Anger from Wiegman, mixed feelings from team-mates

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HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Meg Linehan

GUESTS: Tobin Heath, Charlotte Harpur

PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes

VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen

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0:49.1

Or should I say, bon die.

0:50.4

My name is Tamara.

0:51.6

And the reason why I say that is because this week on the show, we are talking about World Sevens football, the revolutionary Grand Slam style tournament that took place just this past weekend in Portugal.

1:04.0

Huge prize money.

1:05.0

I don't know if you caught it, but it was a major, major vibe.

1:09.0

And to unpack all of that, we are going to be joined by U.S. Women's National Team legend

1:14.0

Tobin Heath, who was deeply involved in the organization of all this on the Player Advisory Council,

1:19.1

and the athletics Charlotte Harper, who had the enviable task of covering the event on the ground.

1:26.3

I have to, of course, introduce my co-host, though,

1:29.0

to do all of this. Meg, how are you doing? Meg, how are you doing? I'm good. The sunshine is back in

1:33.4

Vermont. So, you know, at the end of the day, our wheel house plants, maybe. It's always so

1:40.2

humbling and reassuring to know that sometimes all you need is a little sun. It's like,

1:45.1

is it really this simple. Yes, it can be. It can be, you know, but I feel like, you know,

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