Welcome back to full-time with Megalenehan. Again, we are back to weekly shows now following the Olympics, and this is, of course,

still a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Megalinahan.

I'm actually in Portland for work.

I'm joined by Steph Young also here in Portland.

We are on site for the Women's International Champions Cup.

Here in Portland, we have lived through for the Women's International Champions Cup. Here in Portland, we have

lived through the first game day between Barcelona and Leone and then Portland Thorns and Houston

Dash. A couple of really good games. Plus, we're going to hit on some more Washington Spirit

news. Also a big NWSL trade this week, since we're mostly talking about what's been

going on. We are going to get right to it. But before we get to the rest of today's episode,

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here's stuff we're actually able to just talk to each other in a room like real humans here we go all right

stuff we are both in portland hovering around this microphone just with our face in our hands.

Let's start with Women's International Champions Cup since we were at Providence Park

for quite some time yesterday to watch two games.

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