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

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

The Athletic

News, Soccer, Sports News, Sports

4.8756 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stejskal and Pablo Maurer of The Athletic join Full Time to discuss their latest reporting on political donations from MLS owners and how they’re at odds with the social causes the teams and fans support, and how this lens applies to the NWSL and the American soccer landscape. Follow Sam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/samstejskal Follow Pablo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLSist Read Disconnect: As MLS teams back social causes, owners’ money often fights them by Pablo and Sam: https://theathletic.com/2148851/ Read On Living Well and Writing Furiously by Adam Whittaker Snavely: https://snavely.substack.com/p/on-living-well-and-writing-furiously Read USWNT’s Vlatko Andonovski on how scouting, preparation led to October’s call-ups by Meg: https://theathletic.com/2142137/ Listen to Soccer 101 from Total Soccer Show: https://www.totalsoccershow.com/soccer101 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to full-time with Megalenehan. This is a show about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network.

0:24.6

I'm Meg, your host.

0:25.6

I'm a staff writer at The Athletic, covering the NWSL, the U.S.

0:28.8

Women's National Team, and more.

0:30.5

Before we start the show this week, like everyone else this past weekend, I was extremely

0:34.6

extremely sadden to hear the update about Darrell Grove, one of the hosts

0:38.1

of Total Soccer Show and his health. I wanted to start the show by sending all of my good

0:43.4

vibes to Darrell, his family, and to Taylor Rockwell of Total Soccer Show. That is also why I started

0:50.6

the show with Hello and Welcome. I finally had the pleasure of sitting down

0:55.5

to record an episode of their podcast back

0:58.5

at the end of the Bustle Draft in January,

1:00.2

which feels like, I mean three years ago at this point,

1:03.1

but I just listened back to the start of that episode

1:05.9

with Daryl's intro describing the work

1:07.8

and also the reason for my sleep deprivation

1:09.9

by the time I did finally

1:11.2

actually sit down at their booth to record. It's sometimes easy as a woman soccer writer to not

1:18.2

feel entirely a part of the American soccer landscape as a whole. Yes, the U.S. Women's

1:24.7

National Team gets plenty of attention every four years, but when it comes time for the smaller stories, or even the big ones, like embedding with a team for a

1:33.1

draft, there is not always a guarantee that American soccer, all caps, trademark, right,

1:38.7

will actually give a shit about your work. Daryl and Taylor have been thoughtful and meaningful

1:43.9

in their women's soccer coverage,

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