What did the NWSL learn from the extreme heat in Kansas City?
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It was meant to be a marquee matchup on national television that pitted the NWSL's two best team's against each other. Instead, the KC Current vs. the Orlando Pride was delayed over three hours due to extreme heat and the league's safety measures and planning have come under scrutiny once again.
On this week's Full Time Review, Jillian Sakovits is joined by Danielle Russell of supporters' group KC Blue Crew to take the listener inside the fan experience at CPKC Stadium and the league's official response. The Athletic's Melanie Anzidei then joins the podcast to discuss what could have been done differently, how the match itself played out, as well as what was the response from the players and coaches.
PLUS: Jillian gets you caught up on weekend of many ties but some big results in an all-California clash, the Houston Dash's big comeback in New Jersey, and a statement from the Washington Spirit fans in DC.
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Articles mentioned on the show:
NWSL match finishes scoreless after 3.5-hour heat delay: ‘It was too hot to play’
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Jonas Eidevall is learning to let go with San Diego Wave after Arsenal ‘pressure’
Italy’s Ballon d’Or nominee Sofia Cantore readies for NWSL debut with Washington Spirit
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUEST: Danielle Russell, Melanie Anzidei
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:36.1 | We're like, well, maybe this breeze is okay. |
| 0:39.2 | Maybe it's going to be okay. |
| 0:40.4 | The sun wasn't in our section yet. |
| 0:42.2 | I think that as somebody in the Midwest, we know what it's like. |
| 0:45.7 | We know what heat's going to be like and we knew how hard it was going to be. |
| 0:48.9 | All right, it's going to get serious. |
| 0:50.5 | We're going to have fun, but it's about to get serious. |
| 1:00.3 | Yeah. We're going to have fun, but it's about to get serious. Hello, everybody. I'm Jillian Sackavits, and a very warm welcome to full-time review, presented by Amazon Prime. |
| 1:07.2 | Coming up on today's show, we're going to discuss a bit of a buzzkill this weekend, |
| 1:11.9 | to put it lightly, as the NWSL's biggest league game of the season so far turned into a bit |
| 1:18.3 | of a fiasco. On Saturday, the shield leaders by a long shot, the Kansas City current, |
| 1:23.1 | were taking on at the time second in the table, the Orlando Pride, the reigning champions of the NWSL, |
| 1:30.0 | and due to excessive heat in Kansas City, the top of the table clash was delayed over three hours. |
| 1:37.5 | Kickoff was set for 312 local time, and this game did not begin until 623. |
| 1:43.4 | The players warmed up as expected for the original |
| 1:46.3 | time slot. So the match was slated to be on the big CBS time slot. And in the end, this game, |
| 1:52.7 | the biggest of the season, could only be found on CBS Sports.com and NWSL plus. A missed opportunity |
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