USWNT roster breakdown and strategy for Brazil friendlies
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Full Time, Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan analyze Emma Hayes' latest U.S. women's national team roster for the upcoming friendlies against Brazil.
Who are the new faces and the notable absentees? With no major tournament on the horizon, how important is talent identification versus relationship building? And, what sort of reaction will Hayes be looking for after the defeat to Japan in February?
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Articles mentioned on the show:
Trinity Rodman returns to the USWNT, Emma Hayes continues to work around notable absences
USWNT to face Republic of Ireland in set of summer friendlies, returning to Colorado
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HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Meg Linehan
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:51.4 | The future is open. Hey, welcome back to full-time presented by Amazon Business. I am your co-host Tamara Griffin, and we have, as always, a lot to discuss today. |
| 0:55.6 | We, this week on full-time, are going to be digging into the fresh off-the-presses U.S. |
| 1:01.7 | Women's National Team roster drop for this upcoming international window discussing who's on it, |
| 1:07.1 | who's not, and what it all means. |
| 1:09.5 | Not only that, we're going to be panning out and looking at some bigger, broader questions for this U.S. Women's National team, especially because they're in a building year. There's a lot to sit through. And I can't do it by myself. Of course, I am joined, as always, by my co-host, Meg Linnahan. Hey, Meg, how's it going? All right, you know, I'll be |
| 1:28.2 | honest, all I would really like to talk about right the moment is the season finale of Severance. |
| 1:32.8 | I don't know if you are a viewer of that show, but it has very behind. |
| 1:37.6 | Very much eaten this household alive in terms of what we were watching, thinking about, |
| 1:42.6 | talking about. So I'm trying to, like, shift back into work mode. |
| 1:46.8 | It's been, like, almost a week now. I'm not in, like, a full week. But, like, you know, it's been a few days. I got to get my head back in the game. But, yeah, if I could, like, willingly turn this into a severance podcast right now, I probably would. I mean, feel free to drop all the references as possible because I feel like that helps one process the emotions, you know? |
| 1:46.3 | That is true. Like indirectly, you know, letting it out in the podcast, safe space for that for sure. But I'm glad that you are in good spirits because I, for some reason, was so sure you were going to say that you were in mourning over what happened to Juju |
| 2:18.4 | Watkins last night because that's where I'm at. I mean that was not to drag down the mood |
| 2:22.8 | right up the top. Yeah I mean obviously I feel like everybody's been watching March Madness. |
| 2:27.8 | I think you always want to see the best players playing. I think everybody watching that game |
| 2:32.0 | kind of knew immediately maybe not on like the first look, but on the replay. |
| 2:36.1 | It was not going to be a good update. |
| 2:37.9 | I went to bed. |
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