The Football Reporters: Does women's football have a competitiveness problem?

ESPN FC

ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In a women's football special of The Football Reporters, Emily, Tom and Jeff wonder if Chelsea’s dominance is in danger of making England’s WSL a two-tier league, and preview their four clashes with Manchester City in the space of 12 days. Jeff shares his NWSL ambition rankings with the start of the 2025 season imminent, and the trio wonder if FIFA’s plans for two new international women’s club tournaments are going to push players past the limit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.
0:04.8	Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand.
0:12.5	Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.
0:17.5	From startups to scaleups, online, in person and on the go. Shopify is made for
0:22.9	entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.
0:42.1	Welcome to the football reporters. This week we chat our attention to the women's game around the world.
0:46.2	Will Chelsea finally capture the away for Women's Champions League and complete an invincible season?
0:53.0	And the NWSL is back. But who are the favourites? Plus our thoughts on FIFA's announcement of the women's champions and club World Cups.
0:58.0	Welcome, I'm Emily Keo, Women's Football Writer,
1:01.5	and I'm joined by Tom Hamilton, Senior Writer in the studio in London,
1:06.7	and Jeff Kersuf in the US, the NWSL lead and US Women's National Team writer.
1:07.9	How are you both?
1:09.5	Good here, yeah.
1:14.9	Looking forward to a little bit of spring breaking through finally and what's going to be an incredible end to the season.
1:16.6	But what about you?
1:17.5	Haven't seen you since in Spain?
1:18.9	No, no, very good, very busy.
1:20.6	It's kind of that starting the back end of the season.
1:22.7	So busy, everything's starting.
1:24.6	And obviously, Jeff, yourself, the end of my season is starting very soon.
1:27.4	So I can imagine it's all ago. Yeah, yeah, looking forward to spring as well, like Tom said.
1:33.0	And yeah, I mean, days away from the regular season, we got our little taste of it with the
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ESPN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of ESPN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.