Soccer! What A Concept!
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Steph Yang returns to discuss all things NWSL, from the soccer itself to the second half of that Challenge Cup final. From the airing of grievances with Gotham to some processing and “I feel” statements, we’ve got it all this week.
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Read this week’s NWSL column from Meg and Steph: https://theathletic.com/3301889/2022/05/09/nwsl-challenge-cup-alex-morgan-san-diego-wave/
Read Steph’s story on NWSL refs: https://theathletic.com/2856701/2021/09/29/what-its-like-to-be-an-nwsl-referee-low-pay-little-support-and-constant-criticism/
The latest news on Vivianne Miedema’s contract at Arsenal: https://theathletic.com/news/vivianne-miedema-closing-in-on-one-year-contract-extension-at-arsenal/TpTSnQGsMSwg/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to full time with Meg Lanahan. I'm Meg and you are listening to a show all women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. And today we're actually going to talk about the game of soccer. What a concept, right? Plus, you know all the other stuff, of course. Steph Young is back. We have the tail end of the challenge cup and the start of the regular season to assess and all of that other stuff that we need to talk about the NWSL. Wouldn't be the two of us if we weren't going to talk about it. But before we get to the rest of today's episode, as always, to show your support of full-time, plus get all of our women's soccer coverage and everything else the athletic has to offer on our site and our app. You can subscribe right now at theathletic.com slash full-time. is always one of our very best deals at that URL, and you are showing that you support |
| 0:58.8 | coverage of women's soccer. |
| 1:00.7 | All right, news up first. |
| 1:03.3 | 461,000 viewers for the Challenge Cup final on CBS this weekend. |
| 1:07.2 | That's the biggest TV number for the NWSL so far in 2022. |
| 1:10.7 | That's just ahead of the |
| 1:12.3 | Wave versus Angel City game that had 456,000 viewers. DeBiena was named the tournament's MVP |
| 1:19.4 | on Tuesday, along with the all tournament team. Both awards are voted by the NWSEL Media Association. |
| 1:26.0 | Here's the full all tournamenttournament team for forwards. |
| 1:28.4 | Kristen Hamilton from the current, Ashley Hatch and Trinity Rodman from the Washington Spirit. |
| 1:33.2 | For midfielders, Rose Lavelle, not Rose Ravel, Rose Lavel from O.L. Rain, Ashley Sanchez |
| 1:40.6 | from the Spirit and, of course, De Debian from the North Carolina Courage. |
| 1:48.8 | For defenders, two from the courage here, Carson Pickett and Abby Erseg, and then Alana Cook and Sophia Huerta from the rain. |
| 1:51.9 | And goalkeeper was Fallon Tullus Joyce from O.L. Rain. |
| 1:56.2 | All right. Over in England, I want to swap over there for a second. |
| 1:59.7 | Chelsea won the title with it all coming down to the final day, with Arsenal still in the mix. |
| 2:04.3 | Now, if you have not seen the two Sam Kerrgels from the final match of their season, |
| 2:09.2 | just hit pause right now and go watch them. |
| 2:12.2 | The second one in particular, just absurd. |
| 2:16.5 | And speaking of Arsenal, Flo Lloyd Hughes was some big news here at the |
| 2:20.4 | athletic on the status of the Mietamus contract with the club, reporting that the two sides are |
| 2:24.9 | closing in on a one-year deal for her to remain in England, and she's been rumored as on the move, |
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