The Face of U.S. Soccer
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Marcus Thompson II, lead columnist at The Athletic, is back on Full Time to discuss his latest article, ‘Please don’t shrink’: Inside the movement to elevate Black women in U.S. soccer. We discuss his comprehensive story, and who gets to be the face of U.S. soccer.
Follow Marcus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThompsonScribe
Read ‘Please don’t shrink’: Inside the movement to elevate Black women in U.S. soccer: https://theathletic.com/2404984/
Chantel Jennings’ full guide to the 2021 NCAA tournament and March Madness bracket: https://theathletic.com/2454892/
Black Women’s Player Collective fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-womens-player-collective
Full Time with Meg Linehan listener survey: https://forms.gle/9TS7CKXpF5vwY76E9
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to full-time with Meg Linnehan. You are listening to a show all 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. |
| 0:28.8 | Now, today's episode is a great one. Marcus Thompson is back with us here at full time to discuss his new article that is up on the athletic as of this morning, Thursday, March 18th. |
| 0:39.3 | Marcus has a comprehensive deep dive into the state of the American game and its inclusion |
| 0:44.4 | and appreciation of black women titled, Please Don't Shrink Inside the Movement to Elevate Black |
| 0:50.5 | Women in U.S. soccer. Now, if you would like to read that article before, during or after |
| 0:55.5 | you listen to this episode, I've got the link in today's show notes for your convenience. It |
| 1:00.4 | includes so many incredible voices from all levels of the game, and I cannot recommend enough |
| 1:05.9 | that you take the time to read it. Okay, first on the list for today, a couple of items up top. First, you should know |
| 1:13.0 | that we are currently running a $1 a month special at The Athletic for new subscribers in the U.S. and |
| 1:18.2 | Canada. Take advantage of it as signing up by any article that you would like, but as always, |
| 1:23.5 | I highly recommend that you do so via a NWSL or US Women's National Team article to show |
| 1:28.9 | that the interest is there. Second, you might have seen this on my social media over the past |
| 1:34.5 | couple of days, but I've got a listener survey going for full time. So if you have five, 10, |
| 1:40.1 | maybe 15 minutes, please consider filling it out. It helps me know the audience better, |
| 1:45.7 | helps me know what's working and what can be better. It gives me the chance to get some |
| 1:50.7 | guests or topics that you would like to hear more on and all of that kind of good stuff that I can |
| 1:55.0 | plan around before things truly get hectic once April rolls around and we have so many games again. So the direct |
| 2:02.8 | link to the survey will be in the show notes, but you can also access it at any point you want |
| 2:07.7 | via full-time pod.com basically at any point this month. So and so far, like I've already gotten |
| 2:14.9 | almost 300 responses, but I am seeing actually a solid |
| 2:18.3 | number of asks for more historical content, and that is music to my ears, honestly. |
| 2:23.0 | So just let me know what you think. |
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