The secret to the Portland Thorns' home form & NWSL midseason superlatives
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Full Time Review, Jillian Sakovits has everything you need to know about the final Matchweek of the first half of the NWSL season. Then, Producer Theo is joined by Annie Peterson to go deeper on the Portland Thorns and the rejuvenation of their intimidating home stadium, Providence Park. Peterson looks back on the history of the team, as well what makes this group special, to better understand why the Portland Thorns are so good at home. After legends retired, and high-profile stars were set to miss the season, the Thorns have been far greather than some expected and go into the NWSL summer break undefeated at home.
PLUS: Jillian & Theo give out some NWSL midseason superlatives. From most memorable goal, to best social media follow, and most stylish merch.
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Articles mentioned on the show:
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Portland Thorns’ Bella Bixby on returning to play after motherhood: ‘It changes your body’
As others go silent, NWSL group doubles down over supporting Black players on Juneteenth and beyond
NWSL, WNBA unions release joint statement in response to immigration raids across U.S.
‘We’re being hunted. That’s how we feel.’ ICE activity puts an MLS fan group on pause
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUEST: Annie Peterson
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 1:00.3 | ... do it. The crowd saw that they could do it. Hello, everybody. Happy Summer. I'm Jillian Sackavits and a very warm welcome to full-time |
| 1:05.2 | review. It is presented by Amazon Business. What a show we have for you today. I'll get you |
| 1:10.1 | all caught up on the latest |
| 1:11.6 | headlines from a match week 13 in the NWSL, the final set of games before the league's summer |
| 1:17.0 | break, which will run until August. And then we're going to be talking about the Portland |
| 1:21.0 | Thorns undefeated home form during this first half of the 2025 season. And to help us go a little bit deeper on this, |
| 1:28.5 | producer Theo spoke and caught up with Annie Peterson of the Associated Press, |
| 1:32.9 | who covers the team on the regular out in the Rose City. |
| 1:36.2 | And then we'll close out the show with some NWSL superlatives as the league hits pause. |
| 1:40.8 | There's a lot to get into today, so let's get into it. |
| 1:53.5 | Music Hits pause. There's a lot to get into today, so let's get into it. With week 13 now in the books, the NWSL is officially at midseason, and here are your |
| 1:59.3 | weekend headlines. |
| 2:00.3 | On Friday, racing Louisville upset the reigning champions, the Orlando Pride, 2. officially at midseason and here are your weekend headlines on Friday. |
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