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🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On Thursday, The Athletic’s Meg Linehan published a bombshell report that led to the near-immediate firing of Paul Riley, head coach of the North Carolina Courage and two-time NWSL coach of the year. Meg joins us today to talk about the troubling accusations in her story, and the moment of reckoning it has created within the sport.
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0:58.0 | The Rose City has landed smack dab in the middle of a nationwide controversy involving professional women's soccer. |
1:06.0 | On Thursday, the Athletics Meg Lenahan published a story that led to the firing of a powerful soccer figure |
1:12.0 | and a reckoning for the sport. |
1:15.0 | A lengthy article on the Athletics shook the National Women's Soccer League to its core |
1:19.0 | as former players accused one time, Portland Foreign said coach Paul Riley of Sexual Quarantine, |
1:23.0 | across many teams for several years. |
1:26.0 | Today, Meg joins us to talk about that report and the upheaval it has created. |
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1:38.0 | So Meg, first, can you just tell us a little about Paul Riley's background and his stature in the soccer world? |
1:49.0 | So Paul Riley is a coach in the National Women's Soccer League currently for the North Carolina Courage, |
1:55.0 | the most dominant team in the NWSL from basically since 2016. |
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