Hello and welcome back to full-time with Meg Lanahan. As always, that is me. I'm your host. I'm a writer at the Athletic covering women's soccer at the NWSL and the U.S. Women's National Team.

So it has obviously been a week here in the United States with the election and then the election result and waiting for the election results.

And I wanted to do something a little different.

I turned to a friend for this week's show to hopefully provide you with a pleasant distraction,

a nice distraction from what you might be reading on Twitter or, you know,

refreshing the New York Times app or

looking at needles or whatever it is that you're doing.

Anne O'Dong is here with me this week and we look back on basically a decade of women's soccer

and ahead to the 2023 World Cup, which Anne absolutely just her on her own, no one else, is hosting in Australia and

also New Zealand. So as of the time that I am recording, this introduction, we are still waiting

on the protected list as expected from the NWSL teams ahead of the NWSL expansion draft for Racing Louisville FC,

but the team did pick up former Washington Spirit attacker, Shana Matthews, off the waiver wire,

felt like a very easy call for them to bring in more NWSL quality up top,

in addition to Yuki Nagasato and Savannah McCaskill.

On Wednesday, the NWSL announced a hire for a new position.

Chief Revenue Officer, Mitch Pohl, will step into this role,

and it's someone that NWSL Commissioner Lisa Baird knows,

as he also worked for both the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the NFL. Here is what the

Leeds release says, what he's actually about to start working on. Quote, as chief revenue

officer, poll will oversee all areas of NWSL's commercial revenue and partnership, marketing,

including sponsorship, licensing, and media. In addition to his

revenue responsibilities, poll will work with the newly established commercial committee members

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