Hello.

Welcome back to Full Time with Megalind.

I'm Meg.

You might not remember me, but you are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the athletic podcast network. It has honestly been a while. We've been using soccer every day to free up a little bit of time for me as it has been a little bit of a madness over here. Though you you know what, that's every, every single week.

So, but full disclosure, you know what? The schedule is not about to get any easier.

I'm heading to the upcoming U.S. Women's National Team Friendlies in Denver and Salt Lake City.

And then Steph and I are both on the road to Monterey for qualifiers and then London for the

tail end of Euro. So I'm sure we'll have stuff on the show

relatively soon to break all of these things that we're going to go to down. She's also in Kansas City right at the moment, more on that. But today I'm back because I got a chance to meet up with Andrea Brimmer, who is chief marketing officer at Ally. And if you have watched an NWSL broadcast, you know the name

ally. They have been a very key sponsor, not just for the NWSL as a league, for the NWSL

Players Association as well. They also just announced a pledge to spend 50-50 in media

ad sales between men's and women's sports over the next five years, plus they've got a new

campaign launching for Title IX anniversary, too. So basically, there is a lot happening at Ally. And personally, I think they're one of the brands shaping women's soccer and women's sports right now. So checking in with Andrea seemed like the perfect thing to do. But before we get to the rest of today's episode, as always, you can 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 app.

You can subscribe right now at theathletic.com slash full-time. All right, news. I'm not even

going to attempt to sum up everything that's happened since we've had like a real episode.

But first of all, again, Kansas City Current recently opened up their brand new state of

the art training facility. Steph made the trip down to check it out. She's going to have a

couple stories from Kansas City. So keep an eye out for those. Expansion is still a major theme in

NWSL. And this week, the four players at the heart of a bid for the Bay Area

went public with their approach to expansion with Brandy Chastain, Leslie Osborne, Danielle

Slayton, and Ali Wagner involved in trying to bring pro women's soccer back to Northern California.

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