Hello,

Hello, once again, this is full-time with Meg Linnahan. That is me. I am Meg. I'm a staff writer at The Athletic covering the NWSL and the U.S. Women's National Team. And as always, here with you every week on this show as part of the Athletic Podcast Network. This week, I am joined by Annie Peterson, who covers women's soccer for the Associated Press, and we covered a lot

of ground when it comes to the NWSL fall series, including some more in-depth thoughts on her

local team, Portland Thorns FC, plus this month's upcoming U.S. Women's National Team training

camp.

As usual, I am recording the news on Wednesday, so here's all the latest.

This is an All-USA edition of the news for you.

There will be plenty more on this later in the show, but the 27-player roster is in for the

U.S. Women's National Team Camp, and there's a huge NWSL influence.

But the big name that earned plenty of headlines this past week was

Katarina Mikario of Stanford picking up her first senior team call-up. Now, since there's no

game attached to this camp, starting on Sunday the 18th and running for 10 days, it really

means that this camp is a developmental opportunity and with some big names in

Europe or missing out due to injury in Lloyd, Pew, and Rapino, or family commitments in

Julie Earts, that means getting a real look at players like Christy Mewis again, Sophia

Smith, and yes, Macario at the senior team level. So on the first day as her first US Women's National

Team call-up, Macario also shared that she had officially become a US citizen. Born in

Brazil, there are still some steps between her call-up and actually taking the field for

the United States. She needs a physical passport to start and US soccer has to petition

FIFA to allow her to play,

but head coach Flacco Andanovsky was, quote, pretty confident, unquote, that this would

happen before the 2021 Olympics. So for more on the U.S. national team roster, there's a quick reaction

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