Hello, happy February and welcome to full-time with Meg Linnehan.

You are listening to a podcast all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. I am Meg. I'm your host and I'm a national staff writer at the Athletic covering the NWSL and the U.S. Women's National Team. Now, speaking of the U.S. Women's National Team, we now have our roster for She Believes Cup. And we have the head coach of the team

promising that we shouldn't read into it as Blacko-Andonovsky is still in experimentation

mode when it comes to the squad ahead of the Olympics. Despite this, Steph Yang of All for 11

is back and we will try to make sense of the team and how we are watching the decisions ahead

for Andinoovsky and

crew as the deadline for the 18 player roster approaches. Plus, NWSL preseason is underway and

Steph has finally watched Ted Lasso. Also, one quick note, we do discuss WandaVision a bit at the end,

and there is one spoiler if you are not caught up. All right, before we get started, just as a reminder,

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All right.

So as I just said, NWSOL preseason has begun.

Every single team has released their first roster of the year.

Now, obviously, I'm not about to list every single one of these players on this podcast,

but just one note to keep an eye on is that we still

don't have the final list of U.S. allocated players for these teams. My understanding is because

it is still actually in the works with multiple players, obviously turning down federal allocation,

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