Why Angel City hired Alexander Straus
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 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.
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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
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HOST: Tamerra Griffin
GUESTS: Talia Barrington, Andre Carlisle
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:47.6 | Jillian Sackavis, it's still on vacation, which means you are stuck with me for Friday's full-time focus presented by Amazon Business. On the show today, |
| 0:56.0 | we have got to talk about Angel City FC and their new head coach hire Alex Strauss, who will be |
| 1:01.9 | coming over from Bayern Munich Women. We will also take you inside the creation of Canada's |
| 1:07.0 | Northern Super League with freelance sports culture writer Talia Barrington, who wrote an |
| 1:11.2 | excellent piece about that for The Athletic.com. And then we got to get ready for the NWSL weekend. |
| 1:16.8 | And to do that, we will be chatting with Andre Carlisle, incredible, multifaceted podcast hosts about |
| 1:23.8 | what, in my opinion, is going to be the hottest fixture of the weekend, |
| 1:29.7 | the Washington Spirit and the Orlando Pride. |
| 1:36.0 | NWSL 2024 championship rematch happening this Saturday. |
| 1:37.9 | All right, let's get to the show. All right, to kick things off, we have to address the breaking news matter. |
| 1:50.2 | Thursday morning, the Athletic Charlotte Harper broke the story that Angel City FC had hired Alex Strauss, |
| 1:56.8 | who is the current head coach of Byron Munich women, to come over to L.A. and head up the Angel City side. |
| 2:02.4 | Now, he won't be starting with the team officially until June 1st. And until that time, |
| 2:07.8 | Angel City's current interim head coach, Sam Lady, who has been doing pretty well with the team so far. |
| 2:13.4 | They are unbeaten, two wins and two draws. A lot to unpack here about what this means. And so in order |
| 2:19.9 | to do that, I am going to be joined by podcast producer, Theo Lloyd Hughes. Theo, thanks for joining me. |
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