NWSL Champ Janine Beckie is Ready to Rep Portlanada
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We survived the NWSL Championship, and we’ve got one of the Championship winners on this week’s show! Janine Beckie is here to discuss the big game, the vibe in DC, the celebrations and what’s coming up in the off-season for her (spoiler: naps). Plus… we had to do it, we detoured into plenty fo Grey’s Anatomy talk (with Janine making sure we were major spoiler free).
Follow our NWSL coverage at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/football/nwsl/
Follow Janine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/janinebeckie
And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janinebeckie4/
Meg on the Ally deal: https://theathletic.com/3742895/2022/10/29/nwsl-ally-sponsorship/
Steph on Rhian Wilkinson: https://theathletic.com/3744844/2022/10/30/portland-thorns-nwsl-rhian-wilkinson/
The final NWSL Chaos Column of the year from Steph: https://theathletic.com/3749537/2022/10/31/nwsl-championship-thorns-sophia-smith/
Meg on the congressional letter to U.S. Soccer: https://theathletic.com/3752017/2022/11/01/nwsl-investigations-congress/
For more on Paul & Sam’s new USMNT podcast, From Couva to Qatar: https://theathletic.com/3748886/2022/11/01/usmnt-world-cup-podcast/
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| 0:51.4 | You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. We have survived the NWSEL Championship, the NWSAL season as a whole. The work isn't ending, but we made it through the season at least. But one of the winning players is here to discuss it all. We've got Janine Becky Fresh off that win with Portland Thorntz F.C. |
| 1:12.2 | And one of the many folks in the organization with the Canadian representation. But we're going |
| 1:16.5 | to discuss everything about the big game, the celebrations, what the offseason looks like, |
| 1:21.2 | naps, right? But best of all, get ready for some Graze anatomy discussion at the end here. |
| 1:26.9 | Janine was very good about not getting into spoilers. |
| 1:29.8 | Same here. |
| 1:30.6 | So if you haven't watched, maybe we'll convince you that you need to experience the Shonda of it all. |
| 1:38.2 | Okay, before we get to the rest of today's episode, as always, to show your support of full-time, |
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| 2:04.2 | right into it. I honestly, I listed eight things off the top of my head for things that you |
| 2:08.6 | needed to know about this past week. And I feel like it is scratching the surface of everything |
| 2:12.4 | that happened because the NWSL and women's soccer in general have been on a speed run since the championship |
| 2:18.4 | ended. But let's start with the championship. Portland Thorns FC defeated Kansas City Current in that game |
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