Yes, The Schedule Is Out
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the first episode of Full Time with Meg Linehan. We’re kicking things off with interviews with the Orlando Pride’s Ali Krieger (7:38) on the NWSL Challenge Cup (recorded before the Pride withdrew) and how she uses her platform, and fellow reporter Bria Felicien (30:17) on how Black players in the NWSL have navigated training, protests and conversations this month in the lead-up to the tournament.
Read Bria’s piece for All for XI: https://www.allforxi.com/2020/6/9/21284843/black-nwsl-players-tired-anxious-still-training-amidst-national-anti-racism-protest
Read the tournament guide to the NWSL Challenge Cup:
https://theathletic.com/1889307/2020/06/24/nwsl-challenge-cup-guide-everything-you-need-to-know-to-follow-along/
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:27.6 | season season, exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Hello and welcome to the first episode of full-time, a new podcast from The Athletic about women's soccer. I'm Meg Linnehan. I'm a staff writer for the athletic covering the U.S. women's national team, NW.S.L., women's soccer in general. I'm going to be your host. You might have realized that from the name of this podcast, full-time with Megan Lenehan. But it's not just going to be me every week. |
| 1:11.6 | I really hope. |
| 1:12.5 | I really am going to try to promise you that up front. |
| 1:15.8 | So this is a women's soccer podcast, and I'm already doing all this work for the athletic, right? |
| 1:21.0 | So we're expanding our coverage of the U.S. women's national team, of the NWS. |
| 1:25.7 | of the world of women's soccer. |
| 1:27.6 | And I'm ready to dig into the culture, the context, and the U.S. Women's National Team, of the NWSL, of the world of women's soccer. And I'm ready to dig into the culture, the context, and the conversations really around |
| 1:33.4 | the sport, how it's growing, what it means, the value of this game. |
| 1:38.8 | So originally we were hoping to launch this podcast back in April. |
| 1:42.9 | We were supposed to have a full regular, you know, |
| 1:46.3 | regular season and then instead a pandemic kit. So it's actually more important than ever |
| 1:52.2 | to get this coverage going to expand how we talk about women's soccer. And I'm super |
| 1:58.8 | excited that we're finally launching this and actually like |
| 2:02.8 | getting it going. So hence the title of this podcast full time, obviously, you know, we have the |
| 2:08.7 | soccer reference that's kind of obligatory for a soccer podcast, but also I am a full time writer |
| 2:14.3 | in women's soccer and there are not a lot of us, particularly in America. |
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