Why Angel City hired Alexander Straus

Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Angel City FC has hired a new head coach. On June 1, Alexander Straus will leave Bayern Munich for Los Angeles and the NWSL. But what was it about Straus that got him the job? What was ACFC's search and interview process like? How will the coach and the club match their visions? On this week's Full Time Focus, host Tamerra Griffin discusses the Straus hire fresh from a press conference with ACFC sporting director Mark Parsons and club president Julie Uhrman. Later on, Talia Barrington joins the show to take the listener inside the launch of Canada's Northern Super League. Then, Andre Carlisle hops on to give insight into the mindset of the Washington Spirit ahead of its marquee match against the Orlando Pride this weekend — a rematch of the 2024 NWSL Championship final. PLUS: Tamerra and Producer Theo preview the upcoming UEFA Women's Champions League semifinal first legs that will see Arsenal host Lyon and Barcelona welcome Chelsea. _______________ Mentioned on the show: Alexander Straus to become Angel City head coach in June Inside Canada’s Northern Super League: A new soccer competition created by players for players Thorns forward Deyna Castellanos unable to join team abroad due to potential travel ban _______________ HOST: Tamerra Griffin GUESTS: Talia Barrington, Andre Carlisle PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen _______________ Get in touch: [email protected] Follow on Instagram and TikTok: @tafulltime Subscribe to the Full Time newsletter here Visit the Yahoo Women's Sports hub here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.3	Jillian Sackavis, it's still on vacation, which means you are stuck with me for Friday's full-time focus, presented by Amazon Business.
0:52.7	On the show today, we have got to talk about Angel City
0:55.8	F.C. and their new head coach hire, Alex Strauss, who will be coming over from Bayern Munich
1:00.8	women. We will also take you inside the creation of Canada's Northern Super League with freelance
1:06.6	sports culture writer Talia Barrington, who wrote an excellent piece about that for the athletic.com. And then we got to get ready for the NWSL weekend. And to do that, we will be chatting
1:16.5	with Andre Carlisle, incredible, multifaceted podcast hosts about what, in my opinion, is going to be
1:23.6	the hottest fixture of the weekend, the Washington Spirit and the Orlando Pride.
1:35.6	NWSL 2024 championship rematch happening this Saturday. All right, let's get to the show.
1:48.5	All right, to kick things off, we have to address the breaking news matter. Thursday morning,
1:59.9	the Athletic Charlotte Harper broke the story that Angel City FC had hired Alex Strauss, who is the current head coach of Byron, Munich women, to come over to L.A. and head up the Angel City side.
2:01.7	Now, he won't be starting with the team officially until June 1st. And until that time, Angel City's current interim head coach,
2:07.6	Sam Lady, who has been doing pretty well with the team so far. They are unbeaten. Two wins and
2:13.4	two draws. A lot to unpack here about what this means. And so in order to do that,
2:18.5	I am going to be joined by podcast producer, Theo, Lloyd Hughes. Theo, thanks for joining me.
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