Hello, welcome to a bonus episode of full-time with Megalenehan.

You are listening to a show all about women's soccer. Today is about women's football on the athletic podcast network. I am Meg, your host, and I'm a national staff writer at the athletic covering, the NW.SEL and the U.S. Women's National Team. And we have had some major, major news sweeping across the world of football. And today I am going to be rolling with that term

for the rest of the episode for simplicity's sake, but also, please no, I am not here for soccer

versus football debate. And both are perfectly fine. If you tweet me about it, good luck.

Anyway, with the announcement of the formation of a breakaway European Super League on Sunday night,

Kiva O'Neill, a staff writer at the Athletic covering Liverpool, joins me for this bonus episode to discuss what this means for the

women's game and what we can make out of the very little we have heard so far about their

plans for this potential hypothetical women's league. All right, as always, before we get started,

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Okay, so before we get into this discussion, I do want to give you a quick summary of what we

know so far about the European Super League, and this is the extremely quick version.

If you want to do some additional reading first, I have linked

all of the athletics coverage in the episode description. There's also a very intro level

TIFO video that I highly recommend. I watch that to make sure that I had everything right in my

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