"Some issues around transparency"
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Just a quick check-in from Meg this week with the latest news, plus hear from new interim CEO of the NWSL Marla Messing, who spoke to the media for the first time on Wednesday. We’ve got some of her comments this episode covering the ongoing investigations across the women’s soccer landscape, a league update on the Washington Spirit, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to full-time with Meg Lynn. I'm Meg. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the |
| 0:22.0 | Athletic Podcast Network. This podcast is brought to you by Direct TV stream. Get your TV together |
| 0:28.0 | with the best of live and on demand. Learn more at directtiv.com. It is a shorter episode this week. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm in the middle of a couple of stories right at the moment. |
| 0:38.0 | The deadlines are hanging over me. Plus the international window somehow means that things get |
| 0:43.6 | even more hectic. I don't understand it. But I've got some audio for you from new NWSL interim |
| 0:50.7 | CEO, Marlon Messing. It's her first press conference that took place on Wednesday. |
| 0:56.0 | It might be a helpful listen as she is now guiding the league through multiple investigations |
| 0:59.9 | as a global search for a new commissioner is underway. More on that in a second. But before we get |
| 1:05.7 | to the rest of today's episode, as always, to show your support of full-time, plus get all of our |
| 1:10.5 | women's soccer |
| 1:10.9 | coverage and everything else the athletic has to offer on our site and app you can subscribe |
| 1:15.3 | now at theathletic.com slash full-time there's always an offer there and it's always one of our |
| 1:20.9 | best deals all right on to the news since you will be hearing from marla messing in a few |
| 1:26.4 | minutes right here on this podcast. |
| 1:28.2 | Let's start with her appointment as the interim CEO of the league. |
| 1:31.6 | Here's the info from the league's press release on what her role is and what this means in terms of immediate changes. |
| 1:39.5 | Quote, as the league's interim CEO, Ms. Messing will oversee the day-to-day operations and work in close coordination with the Board of Governors to execute on key initiatives that will promote actionable, sustainable change and measurable progress across the League. |
| 1:55.8 | Miss Messing will build on the efforts underway, which has been led by the League's Executive Committee. |
| 2:01.9 | Concurrent with Ms. Messing's appointment, the executive committee will dissolve. The global search for a |
| 2:06.6 | permanent commissioner remains underway and will be led by a search committee comprised of current |
| 2:11.3 | board members. The board intends to retain a national search forum in order to ensure a diverse and broad set of candidates |
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