The French Connection
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Sophie Sauvage, head of international football for Olympique Lyonnais, discusses her role with both OL Reign in the NWSL and Lyon in Division 1 Féminine. From what lessons can be shared on both sides of the organization to strategy and growth of the women’s game, Sauvage is one of the few that is directly involved in shaping what comes next here and in Europe. Plus, the latest news and Laura Harvey earns the record for most wins in the NWSL.
Follow Sophie Sauvage on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sauvage_sophie
Q&A with new Angel City GM Angela Hucles Mangano: https://theathletic.com/3508535/2022/08/15/
This week’s NWSL column from Meg & Steph: https://theathletic.com/3508747/2022/08/15/
More on the Oregonian’s report from Portland: https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2022/08/five-points-to-focus-on-from-the-oregonians-investigation-into-ptfcs-workplace-culture.html
Meg on Soccer Made in Portland discussing Ryan’s reporting: https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2022/08/soccer-made-in-portland-podcast-the-athletics-meg-linehan-discusses-the-ptfc-investigation.html
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to full time with Meg Linahan. I'm Meg. You're listening to a show all about women's soccer on the |
| 0:21.2 | Athletic Podcast Network. Now this week, Sophie Savage of Olympic Leonez joins. She is the head |
| 0:26.8 | of international football and that title means a big strategic role with involvement for both, |
| 0:32.6 | you know, the Champions League winning Leone, plus the team a little bit closer to home in |
| 0:36.8 | O.L. Rain. |
| 0:40.7 | Now, Leon is currently here in the States that compete in the Women's International Champions Cup, so we saw a little bit of a crossover between the two teams this past weekend. |
| 0:45.9 | First, full-time with Meg Lanhan is presented by Klarna, the new smart way to pay when you shop |
| 0:51.2 | online for tickets, team merch, and more. And of course, before we get to the |
| 0:55.0 | rest of today's episode, as always, you can show your support of full-time, plus get all of our |
| 0:59.7 | women's soccer coverage and everything else the athletic has to offer on our site and our app. |
| 1:04.3 | You can subscribe right now at theathletic.com slash full-time. All right, let's get to the news. |
| 1:10.4 | There is, as always, a lot of it this week. |
| 1:12.9 | Now, as a full disclosure, the podcast was wrapped up before the U-20 World Cup play games tonight, |
| 1:18.9 | but there is definitely a big result one way or the other for the U.S. women's national team, |
| 1:23.7 | U-20s. So Thursday morning, if you did not watch that game, go track down that result |
| 1:28.4 | because it's going to be big one way or the other. All right, the rest of it. Allie Watt is heading east |
| 1:33.9 | thanks to a trade between O'L Rain and the Orlando Pride. The rain get $125,000 in allocation money |
| 1:40.1 | with Watt heading to Orlando. On Monday, Angel City FC announced that Angela Huclees-Majano has been promoted to general manager |
| 1:48.3 | with Enia Lugo's role evolving to director of recruitment. |
| 1:52.5 | I spoke to Angela on Sunday ahead of this announcement about her approach to the role and what changes |
| 1:57.3 | over to her new role from her previous one as vice president of player development. |
| 2:02.2 | Now, she is always, always, always a thoughtful interview. So if you haven't read, |
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