Pathways and potential: A deep dive into the USYNT and the 2024 U-20 Women's World Cup
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Fresh from their best finish at a U-20 World Cup in over 10 years, it is time to take a closer look at the state of the women's USYNT.
On a very special episode of Full Time, Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan were joined by three guests to go deeper into the world of U-20 international soccer.
Former USWNT legend Heather O'Reilly hopped on the podcast to talk about her time spent working for FIFA in Colombia at the U-20 World Cup, and the data behind the nations that impressed at the tournament.
Then, former U-20 USWNT head coach Laura Harvey explained some of the key cultural and technical changes that have slowly been developed at the U.S. soccer federation over the past half-decade. In 2024, how important are pathways to the senior team and principles of play when it comes to the youth levels?
Finally, the current head coach of the U-20 USWNT, Tracey Kevins, discussed the instantly legendary campaign, some of the special moments the team shared along the way, and all the emotions of the 'Miracle in Cali' -- which saw the USA storm back from 2-0 down in second half stoppage time to beat Germany.
If all that wasn't enough, there's still a bit of time on the podcast for Tamerra and Meg to unpack Twila Kilgore's departure from the USWNT setup and the biggest NWSL matchup of the weekend.
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HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Meg Linehan
GUESTS: Heather O'Reilly, Laura Harvey, Tracey Kevins
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Welcome back to full-time with Meg Leninghan. I am Tamara Griffin back in California. |
| 0:18.9 | Still not feeling the fall vibes, but I'm forcing it. Yesterday, I got |
| 0:24.2 | some maple flavored coffee. It's still too hot for me to layer. Sorry, but I will keep you |
| 0:29.4 | updated on that front. I'm joined, of course, by my esteemed co-host, Meg Linnahan. Meg, |
| 0:34.9 | how's it going? It's good. That's good. I've recovered from my field trip down to Washington, D.C. |
| 0:41.9 | to hang out with Gotham as they went to the White House. |
| 0:45.8 | It is like all maple all the time here in Vermont, but it's always all maple all the time. |
| 0:50.6 | I did discover one of our coffee shops makes a maple croissant and I'm now deeply obsessed with it. |
| 0:57.0 | So, oh, dipping a maple croissant in like a maple latte, I just, it's like the book will just |
| 1:04.6 | magically appear in your hand, a fireplace will magically appear in the corner. I feel like |
| 1:09.3 | things like that happen in Vermont. I'm yet to |
| 1:11.0 | visit, but that sounds lovely. Can you tell me some more about your White House visit? Because it looked |
| 1:17.2 | epic. The photos were amazing. It looked like everyone just had like bucketless item time of their |
| 1:23.0 | lives. Yeah. I mean, it was obviously, it's just kind of a little surreal thing, too, of just, you know, trying to figure out what gate that you're supposed to enter for the White House, because I did not pick the right one the first time around, but fortunately, they were actually, like, remarkably chill, and they were just like, no, you're one-off, it's okay. |
| 1:41.7 | And I was like, okay, great. |
| 1:47.3 | But yeah, and just like, you get get in and the holding location for media is legitimately the White House briefing room. So it's very... Spit you right into |
| 1:55.0 | that middle of the action. Exactly. So which also is like far smaller than I ever, ever realized. |
| 2:02.2 | And yeah, and then, you know, you go in, you're in the East Room and it was just very cool, too, because also, you know, so many like NWSL people were around, so many Gotham people. |
| 2:12.3 | Sue Bird was there, immediately proceeds to get shouted out by Joe Biden, which does not surprise me. |
| 2:18.5 | But then after, too, like hanging out with like Ali Krieger and Mitch Purse as they're doing |
| 2:23.7 | their media. And then they discovered like, oh, everybody take our phones and we're going to do a little |
| 2:29.4 | photo shoot in the White House briefing. As does yeah that's great everybody wants our CJ |
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