Send Off Complete & the Fight for LGBTQ+ Visibility at Euro 2020

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

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4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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We’ve hit episode 50 of Full Time with Meg Linehan, and we’re celebrating with an extra-jammed pack episode. First, Sandra Herrera of CBS Sports hops on to catch up on the USWNT Send-Off Series, the NWSL and her new podcast with CBS and co-host Lisa Roman, Attacking Third. Then Adam Crafton of The Athletic joins and we get a bit outside the women’s game to discuss what’s been happening at Euro 2020 when it comes to rainbow armbands, stadiums lit up across Germany, and how governing bodies are addressing homophobia. Follow Sandra Herrera on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SandHerrera_ Follow Attacking Third on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AttackingThird Subscribe to Attacking Third on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attacking-third-a-cbs-sports-soccer-podcast/id1573642138 Follow Adam Crafton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdamCrafton_ Read Adam’s story ‘UEFA, a rainbow armband and an uncomfortable blind eye to homophobia in eastern Europe’: https://theathletic.com/2665233/2021/06/22/uefa-a-rainbow-armband-and-an-uncomfortable-blind-eye-to-homophobia-in-eastern-europe/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 50, a full time with Meg Lennahan, a show all about women's soccer
0:22.9	on the Athletic Podcast Network.
0:24.6	I'm your host, Meg, and I'm very excited and also slightly bewildered to hit this number of shows,
0:29.2	but we have a great one in store for you today.
0:32.2	First, friend of the show, Sandra Herrera of CBS Sports, is back to discuss the sendoff
0:37.0	series for the U.S.
0:37.8	Women's National Team and also Mexico, catching up on the NWSL, of course, and her new
0:42.1	podcast with CBS attacking third.
0:45.6	Then Adam Crafton of the Athletic joins from the UK for a special Euro 2020 segment,
0:50.6	as he's been leading the way on the coverage of how UEFA has handled or perhaps not
0:56.6	handled rainbows and other LGBTQ plus rights and visibility issues at Euro 2020. Yes, it is a bit
1:04.0	outside of our normal scope here at full time, but as someone who has tuned into much of this tournament,
1:08.7	it's a very important topic and one that does apply
1:11.8	here in the U.S. as well. Before we get to the news, just your quick reminder that you can
1:17.4	subscribe to the athletic for all of our women's soccer coverage and beyond, including full
1:21.2	access to our UK team's work across European soccer. The Olympics are still around the corner.
1:27.4	The appeal paperwork deadline
1:29.1	is looming for the U.S. women's national team players, and there is no break in the NWSL.
1:33.8	So there is no stopping for now. You can subscribe for full access to the athletic at
1:40.1	theathletic.com slash full time. Just a quick news recap today as mostly all eyes were on the
1:47.7	sendoff series and NWSL matches here, but the big news from the NWS world, NWSL world was the
1:53.9	right designation of Freed Ben Steedy as head coach of O'L Rain, who took the job in January 2020
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