Talking USWNT and Rookie of the Year goals with Croix Bethune, plus the rookie of the year race is on in the WNBA

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In today’s episode, Claire talks through the widening gap between top NWSL contenders and the rest of the pack after more statement performances from Kansas City and Orlando. Then, she chats with Rookie of the Year (and possibly MVP?) frontrunner Croix Bethune about playing with joy, what makes the Washington midfield tick and more. And then finally she breaks down the current state of the WNBA, where mid-standings rivalries are just as exciting as the title contenders.

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0:00.0	I feel like women's sports has either been slept on or a little bit of
0:05.0	disrespected just because we are women and people think that we can't play
0:08.8	sports or do things just as well as the men. So for women to be acknowledged now, it's amazing, especially in all
0:17.5	sports, basketball as well. And I just want to inspire the younger generation or even women that are older that look on to us like yes, they're continuing history and they're continuing it from us.
0:39.0	Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of The Late Sub and boy do we have another banger of an episode for you.
0:41.2	We have some NWSL analysis to talk through. We have some
0:44.3	WMBA analysis to talk through and we have another very, very special guest from
0:49.0	the soccer world who is going to break down exactly what it means to be an incredible
0:53.2	attacking midfielder in the NWSL. It is Monday, June 24th. Let's jump in.
0:58.0	All right, so before we jump in with our very special guest this week, I do want to talk
1:02.1	a little bit about the
1:03.4	NWSL because we are seeing kind of more of the same I keep saying this that I
1:07.5	look for you look for trends you look for things emerging you look for sort of
1:10.6	the big picture on the NWSL table and we definitely got more of that in spades this weekend.
1:16.7	This is not 2023 folks. This is 2024 season is its own NWSLL monster we are seeing teams rising consistently
1:24.6	to the top getting win after win we are also seeing some teams really struggle
1:29.0	at the bottom of the table and we also are seeing some teams very much struggle to rise above the rest sort of in the middle of the table.
1:36.5	I'm going to say some things that I've said consistently for a number of weeks now because we are seeing these same patterns over and over again.
1:42.8	Orlando and Kansas City are the gold standard of the NWSL right now.
1:47.2	Orlando beats Utah, who is as people might know is in last place, six to nothing nothing Kansas City then ups the ante by strolling into
1:55.8	Providence Park and thumping Portland four to one Washington spirit have another
2:01.0	very very good week as well they take down Gotham 2 to nothing that's a big
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