Hello, everybody, and welcome to the total soccer show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

Daryl Grove is not with me today but

we are expecting him to be released from the hospital today should be back home recuperating and hopefully

we'll be on the show later this week to do some listener questions to give people an update on what's been

going on with him but it's good news all around for the most part is the best way I can explain it.

But Darrow, we'll be back.

We're aiming for Friday.

Until then, I'm going to be talking to Meg Linahan of The Athletic. Meg's been on the show once or twice in the past, but I'm really excited to have her back because we have not talked about NADUSO very much at all this season, and that's something I would like to remedy rectify,

especially as we get closer to the end of the season.

With that in mind, on today's something I would like to remedy rectify, especially as we get closer to the

end of the season. With that in mind, on today's show, we talk about the next manager of the U.S. women's national team, who that might be, who the kind of top candidates are, as well as the work that GM Kate Margraf is doing to figure out who it will be. And then there's also some Olympic roster chat in there, maybe who might be on the outside looking in.

Then we move to NWSL.

The playoffs are looming as a lot. it will be. And then there's also some Olympic roster chat in there, maybe who might be on the

outside looking in. Then we move to NWSL. The playoffs are looming, as I said. Meg explains who she

thinks will make it and what might happen, as well as other topics like why the Orlando

Pride are bad, why the Dash and Sky Blue don't have big-name players, and who the next

stars, next young stars, I should say, of the

league might be. Plus, her dog even chimes in. Her dog has thoughts on, I think, Margraff, and I think it was Kristen Hamilton. A couple other players is when the dog gets animated. So you've got all that to look forward to. So I will stop with the introduction and instead say, joining me now, I've got Meg Lenehan of the Athletic to help me make sense of all things NWSL and U.S.

Women's National Team.

Meg, thank you. introduction and instead say. Joining me now, I've got Meg Lennahan of the Athletics to help me make sense of all

things NWSL and U.S. Women's National Team. Meg, thank you very much for taking the time to speak with me today. Hey, how are you today? Doing well, doing well. I'm very excited to talk with you because we have been sort of laps, lax, laps, maybe both, in terms of our coverage of women's soccer since the women's World Cup, we have fallen victim to that old sort of narrative of like, oh, we're going to get really into it, and then maybe fading off a little bit and then coming back for the Olympics. So I'm going to try to make that not be the case. I would like to talk women's soccer more regularly, and I'm glad to have you around to help me be able to do that because I look at you as like one of the

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