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Full Time: A show about women's soccer

Who should win the 2025 NWSL Awards?

Full Time: A show about women's soccer

The Athletic

News, Soccer, Sports News, Sports

4.8756 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How do you measure Most Valuable Player? Who deserves Coach of the Year? What sort of midfielder is worthy of Midfielder of the Year?


On this week's Full Time podcast, hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan debate the 2025 NWSL Awards and Best XI. The duo unpacks every category, examining the league's shortlisted players, as well as what their own formulas are judging and voting. Also, they discuss the snubs from the shortlist and put forward the players that should have been nominated, and argue whether the playoffs should be taken into account.


PLUS: Tamerra and Meg wonder how much the absence of major stars on the pitch has affected the 2025 NWSL Playoffs, check in on the Full Time Bingo Card, and look ahead to the weekend's Semifinals.

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Referenced on the show

Current’s overreliance on Temwa Chawinga makes her MVP argument even more compelling

Don’t call Gotham an ‘underdog.’

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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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0:00.0

Do you value breaking a four-year curse of a ninth place finish and getting racing

0:09.4

Louisville into the playoffs and clearly being such an emotional lynch pin for that team?

0:17.7

Oh, man.

0:26.5

I wish that Blackhoe and Bev did not have the seasons that they had in the same year.

0:31.3

I need to have an emotional write-in in my ballot. Greetings and welcome back to full time.

0:42.4

I am Tamara Griffin and friends, we are in the thick of it.

0:47.1

Your girl is capital T tired.

0:48.8

I'm not even going to front because we have been busy out here.

0:52.7

And we've only reached the quarterfinal.

0:54.8

Well, I guess we're on the cusp now between quarterfinal and semifinal stage.

0:58.1

But it has been a busy time.

1:01.4

Four games packed the punch almost of like an entire NWSL weekend.

1:05.9

I don't know about you, but it's been a lot.

1:09.4

And it's awards season. This episode is going to be Meg and I

1:14.8

breaking down all of the awards, the nominees, who we think should win, who we think got

1:19.1

snubbed, what we need to be considering with awards. If you've been listening to this show for a while,

1:23.8

you know, I love me a good Meg Linahan philosophical MVP debate. And on that note,

1:30.5

I'm going to welcome my co-host Meglinahan. Meg, how are you doing? And how is your post-quarterfinals

1:36.6

recovery going? Because I was going to be a little dehydrated. You said capital T tired and just, like,

1:43.1

add an infant onto NWSL playoffs.

1:47.5

And I mean, I'm standing.

1:51.0

I'm not currently standing, but, like, I'm awake, right?

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