No One Told Me There Would Be This Much Math in the NWSL
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Kassouf of Equalizer Soccer is here to help make sense of how NWSL federation contracts, allocation money and cap space all work together, plus we catch up on the state of Sacramento’s expansion bid, Angel City sponsorships, new owners in Chicago and across the league, plus some thoughts on media coverage of women’s soccer for 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to full time with Meg Linahan. You're listening to a podcast all about women's on the Athletic Podcast Network. I am Meg, your host, and I'm a national staff writer at The Athletic, covering the NWSL and the U.S. Women's National Team. Things simply do not stop happening in the sport. And so to help me make sense of a week when things refuse to stop happening. |
| 0:40.9 | Jeff Kassuf of Equalizer Soccer is here with me this week. |
| 0:47.4 | Unfortunately, we must also talk about math during this show, but I promise it is to help you understand the end of you a bit better. |
| 0:50.5 | And as a special bonus, and to celebrate the fact that I got to Moonlight last weekend as a |
| 0:54.7 | woman's hockey writer once again, we will also have a very special bonus episode this week. |
| 1:00.3 | The best news of all is that Megan Duggan, former Captain America for USA Hockey, will be joining |
| 1:05.9 | the podcast to help me convert some of you into hockey people and to prepare you to watch another televised |
| 1:12.2 | PWHA game this weekend. So please prepare yourselves and keep an eye out for the bonus pod tomorrow. |
| 1:19.0 | Before we get to the news recap, a quick reminder. As always, you can subscribe to The Athletic for just |
| 1:24.6 | $3.99 a month and also show your support for the coverage of women's soccer and women's sports by visiting theathletic.com |
| 1:32.6 | slash full time. Okay, let's get to all of the news, which as always, and as I said earlier, there's just always news. |
| 1:41.5 | The latest round of COVID-19 testing was announced on February 27th for the |
| 1:46.0 | NWSL, and in the week from February 20th to the 27th, 840 tests were performed for people |
| 1:52.6 | associated with the teams, and zero individuals received a confirmed positive tests. So some |
| 1:58.6 | good news there, obviously. On Friday, we did get some new details |
| 2:03.3 | about the year ahead for the U.S. Women's National Team, courtesy of Kate Markraf, plus some |
| 2:07.5 | other big updates from across U.S. soccer during the board of directors meeting. But two big |
| 2:13.6 | things for listeners of this show to know, Lisa Baird is now sitting on the board of U.S. soccer, replacing North |
| 2:21.1 | Carolina courage owner Steve Malick. |
| 2:22.8 | And we also have set dates now for all of the remaining U.S. Women's National |
| 2:27.7 | Team Games for 2021, save a pair of friendlies that are just tabbed for late June, early July. |
| 2:35.6 | Oh, and we also know now that the official FIFA deadline for the final Olympic roster is June 30th, |
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