Who is Emma Hayes building the USWNT around?
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The USWNT's April window is over. A California double-header against Brazil resulted in one win and one defeat.
So, what have we learned from these two matches? As Emma Hayes continues her year of discovery, who is at the core of her roster? Who is she building the future USWNT around?
This week, Full Time hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan are joined by The Athletic's Jeff Rueter to analyze the USA's two performances against Brazil while also trying to answer some big questions about the present and future of this roster.
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Articles mentioned on the show:
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Michele Kang on $25 million U.S. Soccer investment: ‘It’s a very critical moment for all of us’
Trinity Rodman scores in first game back with USWNT, helping defeat Brazil 2-0
USWNT no longer has a goalkeeping succession plan, leaving opportunity in net wide open
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HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Meg Linehan
GUEST: Jeff Rueter
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to full-time presented by Amazon Business. |
| 0:16.4 | I am Tamara Griffin, and I am so excited about this episode because we will be discussing the |
| 0:22.3 | U.S. Women's National Teams, California, doubleheaders against Brazil. If you recall, that first |
| 0:27.6 | one was on Saturday, a two zero win at the fantastic SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, the second, a |
| 0:33.7 | two one loss at PayPal Park in San Jose. As you can imagine, there is a lot to unpack there. |
| 0:41.1 | What is the core of this team that Emma Hayes hopes to form by June? |
| 0:45.9 | What was the impact of Trinity Rodman's return to the national team? |
| 0:48.7 | Who else stood out to us? |
| 0:50.0 | It's too much for one person and even two, because of course I'm joined by my co-host, Meg Linnehan, to discuss. |
| 0:56.6 | So we brought in a third, Jeff Ruder of The Athletic. |
| 1:00.0 | But first, I got to give some love to my co-host. Meg, how is it going? |
| 1:05.1 | I mean, I feel like I have a distinct advantage just because I got to go home after the LA game. |
| 1:10.2 | To be fair, I had a nice |
| 1:11.4 | seven-hour layover in Detroit. My first flight did not go as planned because flights to Burlington, |
| 1:20.1 | not that popular. So you have to wait. Fortunately, I was a little concerned. I was going to get |
| 1:24.9 | stuck in Detroit overnight, but there was a late-night flight from |
| 1:27.8 | Detroit. |
| 1:28.4 | So got home. |
| 1:29.9 | I will say the East Coast viewing time rough. |
| 1:34.0 | We have to give props to you for being awake so early after a very late night at PayPal Park. |
| 1:41.3 | You know, we had a good time in L.A., though. |
| 1:46.1 | We really did. We had talked. Well, you had a bur time in LA, though. We really did. We had talk, well, |
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