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Full Time: A show about women's soccer

Why Women's Africa Cup Of Nations is so special

Full Time: A show about women's soccer

The Athletic

News, Soccer, Sports News, Sports

4.8756 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this week's Full Time, Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan take you inside Women's Africa Cup Of Nations. From the press box, to the pitch, to the stands, the community, and the culture, Full Time gets to the heart of what makes WAFCON so unique.


The podcast caught up with African soccer journalist and On The Whistle podcast co-host Alisdair Howorth to talk about the the history, teams and names to watch. Then Nigeria and Racing Louisville forward Uchenna Kanu talks about what it is like to play at WAFCON, and what the competition means to nine-time champions Nigeria. The show closes out with writer Fay Harvey, and photographers Andrea Vilchez and Jinane Ennasri from Football Case Study, who are on ground in Morocco documenting the tournament and what makes its place in world soccer so luminous.


Articles referenced on the show:

NWSL stars Racheal Kundananji, Barbra Banda supercharge Zambia’s attack at women’s AFCON

Brazil’s Marta says 2027 World Cup participation depends on ‘very strong desire to become a mother’

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HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Meg Linehan

GUEST: Alisdair Howorth, Uchenna Kanu, Fay Harvey, Andrea Vilchez, Jinane Ennasri

PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes

VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen

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0:00.0

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0:27.5

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0:35.8

We're kind of just blown away by the amount of people and the Moroccan fans have been exceptional.

0:42.3

We've met so many great people of all generations and especially the moms, just to see the moms up front and just, you know, encouraging their daughters and children to really support this tournament is just great.

0:58.3

It honestly just feels like, you know, 90 minutes of just pure joy.

1:07.4

Hello, and welcome back to full-time. My name is Tamara Griffin. And this week on the show,

1:18.0

we are talking all things. Women's Africa Cup of Nations, one of my favorite tournaments in the

1:25.1

world, personally, because it is just as much about the vibes,

1:29.6

the cultural pride, and the partying as it is about the exciting football, which means that

1:35.4

this conversation and these interviews are not just going to look at what's happening on

1:39.1

the sporting side. We are going to be tackling this tournament from the journalistic and

1:43.5

storytelling perspective, from the sporting perspective, and even from the imagery perspective.

1:49.4

We've got a bunch of amazing conversations with you, beginning with a writer for The Athletic who is on the ground in Morocco who's hosting this tournament.

1:58.5

Alistair Howarth, he's also a podcaster, who's going to be

2:01.4

talking about sort of the groundwork of this tournament, how it works, where it's been, where it might

2:05.9

be headed, and what it means for African women's football. We're also going to be talking to

2:10.8

racing Louisville forward and Nigeria Super Falcons player, Uchena Kanu, who's going to give us a

2:16.8

perspective of what it's like to play in a tournament.

2:19.3

She unfortunately is not with the team for this iteration, but she did compete and score for them in the 2022 tournament in which Nigeria placed third.

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