Most Valuable
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Meg and Steph Yang catch up to discuss both the fall-out across the NWSL (including the relocation of the NWSL Championship) but also the games and the playoff picture — plus discuss some candidates for NWSL MVP, and what we consider “most valuable.” Plus: thinking about the NWSL commissioner role and the USWNT roster drop, and Meg might accidentally start a barbeque war at the end.
The new website for the Black Women’s Player Collective: https://www.bwplayercollective.org/
Read Steph’s story “‘A fear based system’: How the structure of sports protects abusers of power” at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/2862063/2021/10/01/a-fear-based-system-how-the-structure-of-sports-protects-abusers-of-power/
For more on the NWSL Championship being moved to Louisville: https://theathletic.com/news/nwsl-championship-moved-from-portland-to-louisville-at-players-request/iVoU9DB4n2Ht/
Our rolling coverage of reactions across the NWSL following The Athletic’s reporting on Sep. 30: https://theathletic.com/live-blogs/sinead-farrelly-and-mana-shim-discuss-allegations-nwsl-commissioner-resigns-paul-riley-fired-live-updates-on-nwsl/CaPyeg3hqcbH/
For all of the latest Washington Spirit coverage: https://theathletic.com/team/spirit/
Buy Marcus Thompson’s book “Dynasties: The 10 G.O.A.T. Teams that Changed the NBA Forever” on Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/books/dynasties-the-10-g-o-a-t-teams-that-changed-the-nba-forever/9780762496297
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to full-time with Meg Linnehan. I'm Meg. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the |
| 0:21.9 | Athletic Podcast Network. This podcast is brought to you by DirectTV stream. Get your TV together |
| 0:27.9 | with the best of live and on demand. Learn more at directtv.com. Okay, hopefully it was a bit |
| 0:35.4 | understandable that we skipped last week's show. |
| 0:37.8 | It's been a ride here as the fallout continues across the NWSL. |
| 0:41.4 | Obviously, you have heard and seen a lot for me over the past week or two. |
| 0:46.2 | But Steph Young, my coworker and fellow women's soccer writer at The Athletic, |
| 0:50.0 | joins the show this week as we catch up on all of that fallout, |
| 0:53.0 | plus actually discuss some soccer. |
| 0:55.4 | What a concept. |
| 0:56.4 | And we'll also react to Wednesday's U.S. women's national team roster drop. |
| 1:01.6 | But before we get to the rest of today's episode, as always, to show your support of full-time, |
| 1:06.3 | plus get all of our women's soccer coverage and everything else the athletic has to offer on our |
| 1:11.1 | site and app you can subscribe right now there's always an offer at theathletic.com |
| 1:17.2 | slash full time and it's always one of our best deals on to the news now obviously it has been |
| 1:24.4 | basically non-stop over the past couple of weeks but here is an attempt at capturing the headlines that you need to know. |
| 1:31.0 | Let's start, of course, with the NWSL. |
| 1:33.4 | On Wednesday, first reported here at the Athletic in the morning, the League and Players Association released a joint statement with a couple of key updates. |
| 1:41.3 | The first is that at the request of the players, the NWSull |
| 1:45.1 | Championship match is being moved. Rather than being played at Providence Park on November 20th, |
| 1:50.1 | it will now be at Lynn Family Stadium, home of Racing Louisville FC. And while the CBS time |
| 1:55.4 | slot hasn't changed, that means a noon local kickoff for players plus grass. While the players haven't been shy about |
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