Why Alyssa Thompson was the USWNT's star at SoFi
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Full Time Review, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by staff writer at The Athletic Tamerra Griffin to discuss the USWNT's 2-0 win over Brazil at SoFi Stadium.
How did SoFi Stadium handle its first-ever women's sports event? How important was Trinity Rodman on her return? Did Los Angeles local Alyssa Thompson have her best international performance yet?
Ahead of the second friendly with Brazil on Tuesday in San Jose, Tamerra also ponders what USWNT head coach Emma Hayes still needs to see from her developmental squad.
PLUS: Jillian and Producer Theo round up some eye-catching results from around the world of international soccer. From an eclectic friendly in Kansas City to a surprise intercontinental result in Osaka.
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Articles referenced on the show:
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
USWNT forward Alyssa Thompson’s resurgence on the field is a lesson in resilience
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUEST: Tamerra Griffin
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm Jillian Sackavits, and welcome to full-time review. |
| 0:17.8 | It is presented by Amazon Business. |
| 0:20.5 | This is your Monday morning rundown |
| 0:22.2 | looking back at the weekend's U.S. Women's National Team Action on the Pitch and more of the top |
| 0:26.9 | stories from the international soccer world. Coming up for you on today's show, fresh from |
| 0:31.6 | SoFi Stadium I talked to Tamara Griffin about Trinity Rodman's return goal and Alyssa Thompson's electric homecoming as |
| 0:39.3 | the U.S. beat Brazil 2-0. |
| 0:41.4 | And then, producer Theo and I check in on some of the significant national team results from |
| 0:45.9 | Osaka, Japan, to Bristol, England, to the banks of the Missouri River. |
| 0:49.9 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:02.5 | Thank you. Let's get into it. For more on the U.S. |
| 1:04.0 | Women's National Teams win over Brazil this past weekend. |
| 1:08.0 | We bring in athletic writer and podcast host and birthday girl. |
| 1:12.4 | May I add? |
| 1:13.9 | Hi, Tamara Griffin. |
| 1:16.9 | Hello, and thank you for the birthday wishes. |
| 1:18.9 | I'm a fire sign, so I have no embarrassment over that. |
| 1:21.8 | You can wish me as many times as you want, and I will not tell you to stop. |
| 1:25.6 | But it's great to be on the show my first time. This is our first |
| 1:28.9 | full time together. This is exciting. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Full time review debut, shall we say. |
| 1:35.6 | Yes. Tamara, you were in Los Angeles. You're at SoFi Stadium. You'll be covering the U.S. |
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