The Lionesses hit 500 matches, trailblazing Marie-Louise Eta and the Champions League semi-finals!
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It may have been a “claggy” pitch in Iceland, and it may not have been a classic England performance, but a win is a win! And in the Lionesses’ 500th game, no less. Make no mistake, though, the Dóttirs are a force to be reckoned with.
Chloe and Rachel also speak to journalist and German football expert Kit Holden about Union Berlin’s groundbreaking appointment of Marie-Louise Eta as the head coach of their men's side.
Finally, it’s nearly Champions League semi-final time. Four massive teams, three former winners. This should be good.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Up Front. I'm Chloe Morgan. And I'm Rachel Sullivan. |
| 0:04.9 | England. Stay on course for World Cup qualification. It wasn't a classic performance against Iceland, |
| 0:10.7 | but a win is a bloody win. We'll give you the lowdown on the Lioness's 500th game, |
| 0:15.7 | and we'll hear how Ireland completed the double over Poland. In part two, we'll be chatting |
| 0:20.0 | to journalist Kit Holden about Marie Louise Etta, |
| 0:22.4 | who was recently named head coach of Union Berlin men's team. |
| 0:25.9 | Last weekend, she became the first woman ever to manage a men's side in Europe's top five leagues. |
| 0:31.0 | But what does this step mean for Etta and female coaches in the future? |
| 0:35.3 | Finally, we're looking ahead to the Champions League semifinals. |
| 0:39.0 | God, it's been a while. |
| 0:40.1 | Two big matchups, four Giants of Europe, including three former winners. |
| 0:44.0 | We can't bloody wait. |
| 0:48.1 | Rachel, we've got quite a lot to get through this pod. |
| 0:51.5 | It's obviously been quite a punchy international window. Has it? It's felt long. Oh, like it's punchy in the sense that we've just been, it's just in our face for the last three weeks, essentially. Yeah, and we've kind of forgotten about domestic football. We've forgotten about European football. And we'll talk about the length of this window because I kind of miss the league, you know? 29th March was the last time there was a WSL action. Mancissia just like We've got a trophy cabinet Waiting here guys |
| 1:14.6 | Can we 29th March was the last time there was a WSL action. Mancissia just like... |
| 1:11.4 | We've got a trophy cabinet waiting here, guys. |
| 1:14.8 | Can we speed it up? |
| 1:16.0 | Just building away, building away, you know, like level by level. |
| 1:19.2 | England pick up the points, amazingly, from a 21st minute goal from Alessia Russo, |
| 1:24.5 | which now means that they are first in group a on 12 points |
| 1:28.3 | Spain just behind them on nine Iceland on three and Ukraine uh on zero nilpoise it was a really |
| 1:35.6 | good obviously a hundred percent winning record in qualifying four wins out of four but like I said |
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