The Women's Game 05/05/22: With Midge Purce & Becky Sauerbrunn, Presented by Paramount+

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4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Introducing The Women's Game, Presented by Paramount+. A new, weekly Podcast from the MiB Media Network covering the NWSL, USWNT and global women's football. In our premiere episode, the Portland Thorns' Becky Sauerbrunn and Gotham FC's Midge Purce preview the big storylines for this season and reflect on the league's 10th anniversary.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members! You can listen to Men in Blazers ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:08.0	You're listening to the Men in Blazers media network suboptimal radio.
0:14.0	I want to walk down the street. I want to walk into my local coffee shop and order my chilate
0:21.0	and sit down at a table and I want to hear a group of kids say, hey, are you going to the woman's game this weekend?
0:28.0	And I want them all to get so excited, yeah, I'm going to be there again.
0:39.0	Welcome to the Women's Game presented by Paramount Plus, a new podcast,
0:46.0	designed to celebrate the human wonder and glory that is women's football by taking you inside the game
0:53.0	with remarkable mix of some of the finest players who take the field weekend and week out.
0:59.0	This is Rodge, all I say up top is, the one of the greatest joys of the past decade for me in the world of football.
1:06.0	There's been witnessing the surging growth of the women's game around the globe.
1:11.0	Here in the US, the National Women's Soccer League, now entering its tenth season, has been a part-finder
1:17.0	with its TV ratings, making headlines. Be a look at Spain, where Barcelona, Feminade,
1:23.0	just played a Champions League game in front of a world record, 91,000 people.
1:29.0	The surging growth of the women's super league in England, where partnership with men's Premier League teams
1:34.0	has propelled it into contention as one of the most exciting leagues in Europe and France,
1:41.0	longer club footballing mecca. It's all been so mesmerising to witness,
1:47.0	and this podcast will be dedicated to it all, teasing out the big storylines of women's soccer on a weekly basis
1:54.0	at home in the NWSL and across the globe, the storylines, the epic rumbles, the personalities, the challenges
2:03.0	we're going to talk them all through with the players who've made it real.
2:07.0	And here with me, to kick off our inaugural episode, I'm overjoyed to welcome two of my most favourite footballers
2:15.0	in the American game. First up, Femya Portland Thorns, a two-time World Cup winner,
2:21.0	four-time NWSL defender of the year, a woman whose leadership and wisdom on and off the field
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