Summer Series, Having A Blast
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
HAO is back! Heather O’Reilly swings by the pod to help break down the USWNT roster and upcoming Summer Series games, with plenty of first-hand knowledge of how an 18-player Olympic roster gets made. From the role of alternates to how versatility is key, we try to tackle everything you need to watch these three games with the final roster in mind.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back to full-time with Meg Linnehan. You are listening to a show all |
| 0:19.9 | about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. I'm Meg, your host, and I'm a national staff writer at The Athletic covering the NWSL and the U.S. Women's National Team. We are into the FIFA window and the summer series kicks off today on June 10th. I'm actually in Texas to cover the three matches against Portugal, Jamaica, and |
| 0:37.7 | Nigeria. And today I am joined by Heather O'Reilly back on the show who needs no introduction |
| 0:42.9 | on the soccer side. But she is also back on the desk for Thursday's game with Fox, and it obviously |
| 0:48.3 | has some firsthand experience when it comes to how an Olympic roster is actually made. |
| 0:53.8 | Now, before we get to the news, and of course, |
| 0:55.9 | there is just so much news. Just a reminder that if you would like to support this podcast and our |
| 1:01.4 | coverage of women's soccer at The Athletic, you can always sign up for your new subscription |
| 1:05.4 | at theathletic.com slash full time. There's always a promo there. That is my pro tip from me to you. So the news came back |
| 1:14.4 | in a big way. So let's dig in. It has been a very long, very strange journey. But on Tuesday, |
| 1:22.0 | San Diego officially was announced as an NWSL expansion team with Jill Ellis leading the way as the club's president. |
| 1:30.4 | Most of what became on public on Monday we had already reported here at the Athletic. |
| 1:34.5 | Obviously, the board did approve the territorial move from Sacramento as originally planned to San Diego. |
| 1:40.5 | Ellis's involvement playing out of Torero Stadium. |
| 1:43.4 | But Ellis hasn't confirmed her head coach yet for the team, though we are pretty sure it is Casey Stony. |
| 1:49.3 | San Diego is set for a 2022 start, and Ellis told media in her first Zoom that she expects the club's crest and branding to be launched within two to three weeks. |
| 1:57.7 | The head coach announced this summer, though Ellis is targeting July there. |
| 2:02.2 | Also from the Zoom, the team has its allocation money already in place and can begin talking |
| 2:06.6 | to players in terms of contract negotiations. Over in France, PSG ended Leone's 14 season streak |
| 2:14.4 | of winning the league title and then immediately followed by a lot of roster news, |
| 2:19.1 | including a couple of big names heading back to the NWSL. Alana Cook is heading to the rain |
| 2:24.1 | on a permanent transfer, and O.L. Rain signed her to a three-year deal with an option for 2024. |
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