There and Back Again
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week, Full Time is breaking down the giant NWSL news of the relocation of Utah Royals FC to Kansas City, from the perspective of both markets. Chris Kamrani of The Athletic joins from Utah to walk through our reporting on the Royals and Utah Soccer Holdings, including what comes next and the potential for the team to return in 2023. Then, Blue Crew media director Danielle Russell gives the Kansas City perspective, with a look back at 2017 and the journey to a second chance at a NWSL team.
Follow Chris Kamrani on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chriskamrani
Read the latest reporting on Utah at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/2247321/
Read the Q&A with Angie and Chris Long: https://theathletic.com/2247699/
Follow the Blue Crew: https://twitter.com/kcbluecrew
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to full time with Megalindhan. Thank you again for tuning into this podcast, which is all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. I am your host as always, as it says on the title, Megalinahan and I'm a staff writer at The Athletic covering the NWSL and the U.S. Women's National Team. So it is December. It is actually snowing here in New York City outside of my window. Nothing is slowing down. |
| 0:40.1 | Last week, I told you about the ongoing situation with Utah Royals FC and a potential ownership |
| 0:44.7 | group in Kansas City with the potential that the team could relocate this offseason ahead of the |
| 0:49.7 | 2021 season, and that announcement was made official on Monday, December 7th. |
| 0:55.0 | A lot more on this from both the Utah and Kansas Citysides with my fellow writer Chris |
| 1:00.4 | Kamrani of The Athletic here so we can walk through all of our reporting, plus Danielle |
| 1:04.4 | Russell, the media director for the Blue Crew is here to talk about getting the NWSL back |
| 1:08.8 | in Kansas City. |
| 1:10.8 | So also our Black Friday deal might be over, but it is still, of course, the holiday to talk about getting the NWSEL back in Kansas City. |
| 1:15.1 | So also our Black Friday deal might be over, but it is still, of course, the holidays. |
| 1:17.6 | Again, that snow, beautiful outside my window. |
| 1:20.6 | So that also means a brand new deal for you. |
| 1:27.5 | Now, if you want to start your new subscription to The Athletic, you can sign yourself up and get a gift subscription for someone in your life for free. To buy one gift one, just visit theathletic.com slash full time. You get the gift you both want, |
| 1:34.7 | one price, two subscriptions, every single team, including all of our women's soccer coverage. |
| 1:40.5 | Also, the same rooting interests are of course not required all right on to the news now most of this |
| 1:47.1 | week revolved around the nwsl news for the team relocation so i'm going to give you the basics now |
| 1:51.8 | but then really save the rest of it for the actual episode first so the way that this transaction |
| 1:57.7 | works when it comes to the relocation from Utah to Kansas City, |
| 2:01.5 | the NWSL bought the rights to the Royals back from Deloie Hansen, then awarded a new expansion team to the new group in Kansas City led by Angie and Chris Long. |
| 2:11.4 | This is essentially a reverse of the same process between FC Casey and the Royals back in 2017. |
| 2:17.1 | The new Casey team will inherit the Utah roster, plus the team's allocation money, draft |
| 2:22.1 | picks, and draft pick order. |
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