Hello, October. Hello to you. This is full-time with Meg Linnehan. I am your host, Meg Linnehan, and I am a staff writer at the Athletic Covering Women's Soccer, including the NWSL and U.S. Women's National Team. Today, I am joined by Angela Heucles. We discussed what's happening with the U.S.L, her ownership with the NWSL expansion team in Los Angeles, finding her leadership voice,

and then she indulged me, of course, in some Boston Breakers and WSA memories, or WUSA,

if you were around back in the day.

All right, so we're recording on Wednesday afternoon, and Everton have advanced to the final

of the FAA Cup on Thursday. We will find out if

Arsenal or Manchester City join them in that match, and we do expect to see Rose Lavelle make

her Man City debut. NWSL ratings dropped this past weekend for the lowest ratings of the fall

series so far, was Chicago versus Washington dropping below 300,000 viewers for the first time to come in at a

total of 299,000. The next two matches on TV move to CBS Sports Network, so definitely do not

expect this sort of bounce back above 300K. These next two weeks with CBSN definitely is on less televisions than big CBS to just keep those

expectations at a healthy level.

The Matildas have found their new manager and Tony Gustafin, who U.S.

Women's National Team supporters might remember from his time as an assistant coach with the

team.

The Australian Federation, the

FFA, has locked him up through at least the 2023 World Cup, which Australia is, of course,

co-hosting with New Zealand. He won't actually technically start his job until January 1st,

2021, but he may oversee a European camp for the Matilda's in November, as he's actually still in

Sweden himself. Here is the new coach on what he sees for the potential of Australia.

I have always said that the Matildas have the potential to be one of the best teams in the

world, and that is one of the reasons that I wanted to get on board with this job.

I have been in the pressure cooker a lot of times and in environments that demand success.

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