Midge Purce's Broadway debut & are the Portland Thorns contenders?
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Full Time Review, host Jillian Sakovits looks back over Matchweek 7 of the NWSL season. From the league's first-ever 'Sister Sister' goal, to how likely it is that Seattle Reign and the Portland Thorns can build on their recent marquee results and become contenders.
To unpack the NWSL chaos, Jillian is joined by The Athletic's Asli Pelit, who also takes the listener inside a special one-off night on Broadway with Gotham FC's Midge Purce.
PLUS: Meg Linehan stops by to talk about London City Lionesses' dramatic promotion to the English Women's Super League, and owner Michele Kang's ambition.
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Articles mentioned on the show:
Backstage with Midge Purce as the Gotham and USWNT forward makes her Broadway debut in ‘Chicago’
Michele Kang’s London City Lionesses promoted to WSL for first time
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUEST: Asli Pelit, Meg Linehan
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm Jillian Sackavits, and welcome to full-time review. |
| 0:17.7 | It is presented by Amazon Business. |
| 0:20.1 | What a show we have for you today. We look back at the |
| 0:22.4 | biggest storylines of the NWSL weekend. Then Asla Pelley Basker joins me to talk about what we learned |
| 0:28.5 | from this weekend's action, including are the Seattle rain and the Portland Thorns contenders |
| 0:34.3 | this season? Asla and I then dig into her night on Broadway. |
| 0:39.8 | That's right, hanging out with Gotham forward Mitch Purse when she makes her debut in Chicago. |
| 0:45.9 | And then we'll close out the show with Meg Linnehan, who joins us to talk all things, |
| 0:50.3 | London City lionesses and their promotion into the English Women's Super League. |
| 0:54.9 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:09.1 | None of the NWSL's Elite 4 won this past weekend. |
| 1:11.3 | The top two teams both took the loss in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 1:15.0 | The Kansas City current were held to a shutout for the first time this season defeated 1-0. |
| 1:19.7 | Thanks to a goal from Lynn Biondolo for the Seattle rain. |
| 1:23.7 | That came in the first half and bore Harvey parking the bus after halftime. |
| 1:27.2 | For us, we're a team right now where we have to respect who we are. that came in the first half and Laura Harvey parking the bus after half time. |
| 1:32.5 | For us, we're a team right now where we have to respect who we are, but we have to respect the opponent too. And that takes a little bit of humility to do that. Maybe there'll come |
| 1:38.7 | times where we don't have to respect the opponent as much. But, you know, Orlando and Kansas |
| 1:43.1 | are very dominant teams right now in |
| 1:46.4 | this league. And I think to put on the two performances that we have against those two teams |
| 1:51.3 | and obviously get a resort like we did tonight, it just shows the growth of where we're at. |
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