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Full Time: A show about women's soccer

What the USWNT learned from their scrappy win over Argentina

Full Time: A show about women's soccer

The Athletic

Women's Soccer, News, Soccer, Nwsl, Sports News, Wsl, Sports

4.8807 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. women’s national team scrapped its way to a 2-0 win over Argentina in the opening match of the 2026 SheBelieves Cup. But what did Emma Hayes’s team learn from a match where they only generated six shots and were fouled 21 times?


On this episode of Full Time, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by The Athletic’s Tamerra Griffin, who was in Nashville, Tennessee, for the opening night of the SheBelieves Cup. The duo analyzes the good, the bad, and the ugly of the USA’s win on Sunday night, and why Canada’s 4-1 over Colombia, in the other opening round fixture, meant so much to Casey Stoney and her players.


PLUS: Jillian and Producer Theo review the new ESPN documentary ‘NWSL: The Final Third’, which gives an inside look at the 2025 NWSL season, featuring behind-the-scenes footage of Angel City, the KC Current, and the Washington Spirit.

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HOSTS: Jillian Sakovits, Tamerra Griffin

PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes

VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen

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Referenced on the show:

Lindsey Heaps leads USWNT to SheBelieves Cup win over Argentina, Trinity Rodman suffers injury

Trinity Rodman leaves SheBelieves Cup match after hard foul

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0:00.0

Already 20-ish minutes into the game, we were beginning to get the vibe of what the energy was going to be like.

0:11.1

Argentina was coming to do.

0:12.9

They were coming to be menaces, straight up menaces.

0:16.4

Yeah.

0:16.6

And I think goals like that can sort of take down the temperature a little bit.

0:20.4

I mean, just a little bit. Maybe it offers some relief, but it didn sort of take down the temperature a little bit. I mean, just a little bit.

0:21.9

Maybe it offers some relief, but it didn't necessarily take down the temperature because as we saw, it stayed pretty high until the final whistle.

0:32.6

Hello, hello. I'm Jillian Sackavits.

0:39.1

Welcome back to full time to kick off this week.

0:42.7

We are talking She Believes Cup.

0:45.1

So first up on today's show, we have our extraordinaire who's there in person to

0:50.2

Mary Griffin live from Nashville, Tennessee, to talk about all things from Sunday night.

0:55.1

And after that, I'll be reviewing, I believe this is my first official review,

0:59.4

the ESPN documentary NWSL, the final third, with producer Theo.

1:04.8

But before we get into today's show, if you don't already, make sure you are subscribed

1:08.6

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