Hello, this is Darrell. We have a great episode for you today, recorded in Baltimore

at the United Soccer Coaches Convention. It's our sit-down with the athletics, Meg Linnahann.

It's actually hard to get Meg to sit down because she is always on the move, always working

on a story, always busy.

And it's that kind of commitment that saw Meg recognised at the convention in the annual media

contest where Meg won best deadline slash game story for an athletic piece titled

The US Women's National Team beat Thailand 13-0 because you don't win World Cups by playing nice.

Great title. Sincere congratulations to Meg for that recognition. When we sat down, Meg had just published another

piece titled The Inside Story of Sky Blue's 2020 NWSL draft, where Meg had been embedded

with SkyBlue FC, who were the laughing stock of the 2019 draft,

but were back with new management looking to put things right.

SkyBlue gave Meg full access, and the story really is more than a peak behind the curtain.

It's a full-on look around and stare at everything that's back there behind the curtain.

We talked to Meg about that incredible story,

and then we talk US women's national team,

because Vlako Andanovski has just named the 20 players for Olympic qualifying,

and we wanted to get Meg's expert insight and reaction.

It's a great interview, I promise.

And if all that makes you want to sign up for an athletic subscription,

you can get 40% off, and then we get the credit if you sign up via theathletic.com slash total soccer.

That's theathletic.com slash total soccer. Link will be in the show notes.

But before you hear the drone clicks and then the interview, today's Total Soccer show is brought to you by Robin Hood. With Robin Hood,

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