Sean Nahas interview: Inside the North Carolina Courage's process
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Full Time Focus, host Jilian Sakovits sits down with North Carolina Courage head coach Sean Nahas.
The two talk candidly about the Courage's challenging start to the season and the importance of trusting the process, especially when things aren't going your way. Nahas opens up about how the Courage can get the best out of Jaedyn Shaw, why he's taking a break from social media, and his deep admiration for Pep Guardiola.
PLUS: Later on, Amelia Lopez, of the Our Futbol podcast, joins the show to help shine a light on the LigaMX Femenil playoffs, which began this week. Who are the players and storylines that you need to know? And which teams are primed to win the 2025 Clausura title?
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Mentioned on the show:
Olympic gold medalist Lauren Holiday joins North Carolina Courage NWSL team ownership group
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUESTS: Sean Nahas, Amelia Lopez
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. It's Jillian Sackavits and welcome to Friday's full-time focus. It's presented by Amazon Business. |
| 0:20.2 | On today's show, we have two fantastic interviews lined |
| 0:23.5 | up for you. First, I'll be hanging out with North Carolina Courage head coach Sean Nehous as he |
| 0:28.3 | navigates arguably the toughest start in club history for the North Carolina Courage after five |
| 0:34.9 | match days his side, still in search of their first win on the season. |
| 0:38.8 | And after that, we'll have Amelia Lopez on the podcast to tell you who, what, and why you should |
| 0:45.2 | care about the League of Macis Feminio playoffs. Sean, thank you so much for joining us. I highly doubt you had on your bingo card. This is how you'd be ringing in the big four-six talking to me here today. But happy birthday. Thank you. I appreciate it. I think it's 4-7, actually. |
| 1:11.5 | I don't even know anymore. It's okay. I'd rather be 4-6, to be honest. So that's, that's my bad, looking too quickly at your Wikipedia page. Oh, good. Oh, good. Happy 47th birthday. Thank you. Appreciate it. Before we dive into the team, it was announced on Wednesday that World Cup winner, Lauren and her husband, NBA point |
| 1:28.4 | guard, Drew Holiday, would be joining the club as investors. Have you had any interactions with them |
| 1:33.6 | yet? Yeah, I mean, over the past, I've known Lauren a bit. So, and my brother's known Lauren as well. |
| 1:42.0 | So we have a friendship prior to this being finalized. So yeah, she's amazing. You know, obviously someone with her experience and interest in investment into the women's game and has such a passion for it. I've never met Drew. Obviously, he's busy dominating the playoffs right now. But yeah, she's amazing. And to have someone of that caliber with that background and is pretty cool for our |
| 2:05.5 | club to have. |
| 2:06.1 | And hopefully she can, I know she'll help us continue to elevate where we want to go. |
| 2:10.3 | Sean, you mentioned that Lauren's husband, Drew, is a little bit busy right now. |
| 2:15.1 | An NBA point guard playing for the Boston South Dix who are currently into the |
| 2:19.5 | playoffs. They've got a two-nil lead over the magic right now. So it beg the question, I'm from |
| 2:25.3 | New York. I know you're from New York. Are you a Knicks fan? Yeah, no, no. I'm not really an NBA fan, |
| 2:30.2 | to be honest. I like college basketball. But yeah, if I had to, I would always support the Knicks, yeah, for sure. |
| 2:36.3 | Okay, because if Boston goes through and the Knicks go through over the Pistons, |
| 2:40.1 | it'll be Boston, New York in the conference semifinals. |
| 2:43.9 | Okay, moving on, moving on to talk about the North Carolina Courage. |
| 2:48.4 | It's no secret that it's been a disappointing season to start |
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