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Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The IX Newsletter’s Howard Megdal is here to discuss the latest on equal pay, with U.S. Soccer trying to take some big steps in collective bargaining negotiations and in the public sphere, plus the role of the equal pay documentary, public statements and tweets in the back-and-forth between the federation and the players.
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Read Howard’s latest on equal pay at Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardmegdal/2021/09/16/has-us-soccer-grabbed-the-pr-high-ground-in-equal-pay-fight/?sh=20edf8fb4cf1
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to full time with Meg Linahan. I'm Meg. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. We are back into women's soccer mode. And this week, Howard McDoll is back on the show. And we are discussing the latest on the equal pay front with U.S. soccer stepping up with a couple of big announcements this week, followed by some back and forth on Twitter, and no clear answers yet if this will actually solve anything. Before we get to the rest |
| 0:43.0 | of today's episode, as always, to show your support of full-time with Megalenehan. Plus, get all |
| 0:47.6 | of our women's soccer coverage and everything else The Athletic has to offer on our site and app. |
| 0:52.4 | You can subscribe right now at theathletic.com |
| 0:54.7 | slash full time. There's always an offer there and it's always one of our best deals. |
| 0:58.8 | And right now it's 50% off your new annual subscription. |
| 1:03.3 | All right, the news. It is international break time. So let's do a quick rundown on this front first. |
| 1:09.7 | Steph Young is in Cleveland right now and is heading to tonight's U.S. Women's National Team match at TQL Stadium against Paraguay. Tonight's match is the first of two friendlies. It's on ESPN 2 at 7.30 p.m. Eastern. Game two is in Cincinnati. I'm heading to that one myself. And that's on Tuesday night at 7.30 p.m. Eastern on FS1 and Tudan. |
| 1:30.4 | Head coach Vlako Andinovsky said that Tobin Heath will be on limited minutes, maybe 10 or 15 in the first match, up to maybe 20 by the second match. |
| 1:38.0 | And Lindsay Horan will not play in either game at all after picking up a knock in the Portland versus North Carolina game. |
| 1:45.0 | There will be a way to watch at least some UEFA World Cup qualifiers here in the U.S. |
| 1:49.6 | with Paramount Plus airing 16 matches that was announced on Wednesday. |
| 1:54.1 | It was heavily populated by England and Germany, but that full schedule is available now. |
| 1:59.1 | The group stage is set for Champions League with the draw taking place this past Monday, |
| 2:04.1 | Chelsea, Wolfsburg, and Juventus in Group A, Real Madrid drawn into Group B, |
| 2:09.1 | headlined by PSG, Arsenal and Barcelona in Group C, and Leon heads up Group D along with |
| 2:15.0 | Byron. |
| 2:15.9 | Just a reminder that every single match of the Champions League |
| 2:18.7 | from here on will be streamed for free on YouTube via DeZone. The Spirit were forced to forfeit |
| 2:25.8 | this past Sunday's match against the rain due to multiple breaches of COVID-19 protocols. |
| 2:31.4 | And on Thursday afternoon, the NWSL announced the Spirit have forfeited their |
| 2:34.8 | match against Portland Thorns FC that was not played earlier this month as well. We're all in |
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