‘Why not me and why not now?’ Naomi Osaka joins the NWSL
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Chris Kamrani is back on Full Time to discuss our coverage of the big breaking news in the NWSL: global tennis superstar Naomi Osaka has joined the ownership group of the North Carolina Courage. Chris and Meg break down the story and Osaka’s approach to her new role, plus what this means for the Courage and the NWSL.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:01.0 | Hello. We are back here again at Full Time with Megalinahan. You are listening to a podcast all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. I am Meg, your host. I'm a staff writer at The Athletic, covering you guessed it, women's soccer, the NWSL and the U.S. Women's National Team. Now, I am very, very excited about today's episode, which is tied to some NWSAL breaking news here on this |
| 0:39.5 | Thursday that I worked on with my fellow writer at The Athletic, Chris Kamrani. Now, if you are a |
| 0:44.9 | regular listener, you have definitely already heard Chris on this show as we worked through our |
| 0:49.8 | reporting on Utah Royals FC and then the team's relocation to Kansas City during this past |
| 0:55.8 | offseason. But today it is all good news, though, as global tennis star Naomi Osaka has |
| 1:02.7 | announced that she is joining the ownership group of the NWSL's North Carolina Courage. |
| 1:07.7 | And Chris and I have the story for you up at The Athletic featuring her thoughts |
| 1:11.1 | on her investment, along with Courage owner Steve Malick and NWSL Commissioner Lisa Baird. |
| 1:16.5 | If you have not read our story yet, there is a link in the show notes to make it super easy for you, |
| 1:21.3 | but I highly recommend seeing what Naomi Osaka has to say about why she made this decision. |
| 1:26.7 | Now, first, just as a reminder, you can subscribe to The Athletic to read all of our women's |
| 1:31.2 | soccer coverage and everything else we have to offer. |
| 1:34.0 | If you start your new subscription at theathletic.com slash full time, it is just $3.99 a month right now, |
| 1:41.2 | and that subscription shows your direct support of our women's soccer coverage. |
| 1:45.7 | That's theathletic.com slash full time. |
| 1:49.0 | Now, I am not trying to jinx myself here, but we did enjoy a somewhat quite week on the newsfront, |
| 1:55.7 | and since this episode is heavily focused on the big news of the day, I just want to have |
| 1:59.6 | one thing here for our usual news rundown before we actually get to big news of the day. I just want to have one thing here for our usual |
| 2:01.3 | news rundown before we actually get to the meat of the episode. So on Wednesday, we got a few new |
| 2:07.5 | dates on the end of itself schedule front, not the whole thing, but a few new dates. And the news that |
| 2:13.2 | the NWSL Challenge Cup will take place in' home markets that's been approved by the league's |
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