NWSL players to watch, and what's going on at Manchester City?

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

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4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Welcome to the first edition of Full Time Focus, a new Friday podcast hosted by Jillian Sakovits that gets you ready for the weekend’s action while also catching you up on the key women’s soccer news that developed during the week. On the show this week: Jillian has the latest on Mal Swanson and some NWSL opening day history, then Jeff Rueter joins to talk about his data-driven analysis of 14 players to watch in the 2025 season. After that, attention shifts to England and a truly chaotic week ahead of the Women's League Cup final between Chelsea and Manchester City. Charlotte Harpur hops on the podcast to help unpack the fallout for City following the shock decision to sack head coach Gareth Taylor just days before that match. Charlotte also has some warming anecdotes from half an hour spent in the company of former NWSL MVP turned Manchester City player Kerolin. _______________ Articles mentioned on the show: NWSL players to watch: Key performers for every team in 2025 Manchester City part ways with head coach Gareth Taylor Manchester City captain Alex Greenwood ‘shocked’ by Gareth Taylor exit What does Manchester City’s Kerolin Nicoli want? The Ballon d’Or _______________ HOST: Jillian Sakovits GUEST: Jeff Rueter, Charlotte Harpur PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen _______________ Get in touch: [email protected] Follow on Instagram and TikTok: @tafulltime Subscribe to the Full Time newsletter here Visit the Yahoo Women's Sports hub here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.7	Hello, everybody. I'm Jillian Sackavits and welcome to full-time focus, a new weekly podcast from
0:55.8	The Athletic hitting your feeds every single Friday that gets you ready for this weekend's action
1:00.4	while also catching you up on the key women's soccer news that developed during the week.
1:04.8	On the show today, we're going to talk about opening weekend at the NWSL, talk to Jeff Ruder,
1:10.0	about some of the most interesting players that you need to know.
1:13.1	And after that, producer Theo checks in with Charlotte Harper across the pond
1:17.0	to talk about the surprise move in the WSL from Monday
1:21.4	that saw Manchester City fire head coach Gareth Taylor
1:24.6	just five days before England's women's league cup final.
1:28.6	Let's get into it.
1:31.8	U.S. women's national team star Mallory Swanson will not play in the Chicago Red Star season
1:36.8	opening match on Friday against the Orlando Pride.
1:39.8	The club has not disclosed more details about the forward's absence since announcing in January
1:45.1	that she was sitting out NWSL and USA games due to personal reasons.
1:50.6	The team has said they are, quote, fully supportive of her decision.
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