Casual FC

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Okay.

Okay.

Ready?

And Oh yeah, that's me.

Haha.

Okay.

I feel like, I feel like, you know

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
from vacation from work and you

don't remember how to do your job
and you're like, what's my password?

How do I do this?

Where am I?

Do you know your

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Okay.

Okay.

Alright.

Haha.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Oh no.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Oh, okay.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
a minute

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Already?

Not even a minute in?

Okay.

Alright.

Welcome to Casual FC uh,
Angel City Preview Pod, I

think that's what we do, yes.

I am your certified footy therapist,
along with my best host in the whole

world who has just restocked on all of
the Footy Therapy, Juice Pouch Emotional.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Because

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
a probably a weird sound.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
we needed to go to Costco.

Like, the family trip, Eva, my mom
and I, we're like, crap, we need to go

to Costco, we need a million things.

And I didn't even need
to put it on my list.

I was like, I'm getting Capri Suns.

My mom's like, are you
recording on Monday?

It's like, yeah, like,

she's like, I saw the schedule drop.

So I figured you and Mario
were going to start recording.

I was like, obviously, but

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
so yes, welcome back every

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
cause shit's bad.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I got Pacific Cooler going,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Oh, you're

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: so
yep, yep, can't go wrong with that one.

And then, you know, I have
a nice lager to back it up.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I'm over here chasing my Capri

Suns with Gatorade and water
and you're like, I'm just, I'm

chasing my beer with a Capri Sun.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

no, it's chasing my Capri Sun with a beer.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
okay, okay.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
alright, well, we,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
back.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
we're back, brand new year, the

rest of the world is in a weird
fuckin state, but, you know,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
literally is on fire.

Well, not so much because we got rain.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
we got rain.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Thank goodness.

Thank the universe.

Thank the stars.

Planets are aligned.

Weird

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yes, yeah, and, and,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I hate

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
just to Just, just to touch on that

note, like, we hope that everyone that
is listening, is, safe, has, you know,

we were all affected, by all the fires
and everything that was happening.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Mm hmm.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Some of us way more than others,

and, it's, it's fucking horrible.

And, honestly If we can hopefully make
you laugh and bring you that little bit of

footy joy, you know, we're doing our part.

besides, you know, whatever volunteering
events and donations and whatnot

that the whole community is doing.

and yeah, I mean, it was scary for
a while, for some of my family too.

thankfully on our side,
there wasn't, anything major.

but I know that's not the case
for thousands of people, so, if,

there were, there, I mean, there's
countless GoFundMes, there's

countless donation sites, there's
countless everything, but L.

A.

has shown up, shown out,
shown the world who we are,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
we are?

Like, I, I honestly can say as
awful as this month collectively,

like, legitimately this whole
month has just been bad for a

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Everybody who listens knows, probably all

of them at this point, except the ones
that I haven't shared, like, personally.

but like, the way this city has
come together, like, I don't know.

I have never been more proud to be from L.

A.

already crying, Happy New Year!

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: Yes!

one of our merch ideas for this year
was if you guys can, if you guys

can identify like, you know, every
five times that she cries, we're

going to have a special sticker.

And if you find us, you get a sticker!

Very limited edition.

so yes.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
No, but

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
we do have,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like, I've never been more

proud to be from this city.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, I mean, we have people, in, in

our own, Discord, that were, affected
and, a part of a lot of efforts that

were going on, and a lot of resources
and things like that, so big shout out

to all of them and all the amazing work
they were doing and are still doing.

And, yeah, but hopefully, you know,
we're getting to the point where

We were, in LA, besides us trying
to rally together, the footy fans

were waiting for some good news.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Honestly.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And we did, in the form of, like,

a couple of cool announcements, a
couple of announcements that we were

waiting for that weren't quite what
we wanted, but I mean, we'll take it.

the NWSL schedule has been released.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
A miracle before

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
A miracle before February, yes.

And then, a bunch of
shenanigans all over the league.

So, we're just gonna run
through a handful of them.

This is not at all exhaustive,
but it's just stuff we

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
level run through right now.

We are both running on fumes.

But like,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Hence the Capri Sun and the

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
it's time!

we're back, and I'm
honestly, I'm so excited.

I feel like it's been a hundred
years since we recorded.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: It
does, it feels like it's way too long.

I know that the players probably feel
like the offseason was too short, but For

the, for the fans, it's Been too long.

so yes, top, top line news.

Schedule is out.

If you don't have the schedule, go to the
website, go to whereisthenwcellschedule.

com, and you'll get your link
directly to the schedule, and

you'll get a link directly to us.

it's a stupid website that
I set up two years ago,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Listen,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I reset it.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
handy.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yes, I reset it every time after

the season ends and it's just
a big countdown, but it's out.

the opening weekend is
going to be, the 14th.

March 14th is going to
be the opening weekend.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Angelinos, prepare yourself.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yes, so the big thing for us is our first

home match is going to be March the 16th.

That happens to be If you look at
the schedule, it gives us a really

weird time against the San Diego Wave.

It's gonna be a 3.

50 kickoff, which, why not
just make it 4 o'clock?

They're trying to piss off
all the OCD people out there.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Welcome to being a baseball fan

where everything starts at 410 and

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: no,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
407 for why?

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
okay.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
commercial.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Well, okay, but then that makes

sense, because it's like, you
know when it's gonna happen.

It's like in Europe, when they say
the game's gonna start at 3 o'clock,

the whistle blows at 3 o'clock.

Not where

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
else

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: It,
I, I treat MLS and NWSL games like the

way I treat going to an AMC movie theater.

The movie says it's gonna
start at four o'clock.

You don't have to get there till like 4.

30, 4.

45 for the movie to actually start.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
at four.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, it might start at four if the,

if the quiz isn't done by, by then.

So, in the NWSL, if it says like a
four o'clock kickoff, It's probably

not going to get off until 415, 420.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
With all the

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
need to have fireworks first, y'all.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
national anthem, fireworks, here comes

the queen, like all of that stuff.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
what this year's song's gonna be.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I kind of hope they keep it.

I really like that song.

But,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Who knows?

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah, who knows?

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
knows?

I

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Okay, so the big, the big

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
know

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
news.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
that until it's gone, and

then I'll be like, woo!

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
The big news though.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
fine, and then it was ruined,

and now I don't want it anymore.

Anyway.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Okay, so 316.

Not only is it going to be St.

Patrick's Day weekend, it's actually going

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Austin?

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Sorry!

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
get your hell yes, on that day.

It's also going to be LA Marathon Day.

316 is the day of the LA Marathon,
which is going to run somewhere around

downtown as it goes out towards,
towards Santa Monica, which it doesn't

run through Santa Monica, so thank
you Fucking McCourt Foundation,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Boo!

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
exactly.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
booing the McCorks!

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: so,
just a big warning for everybody, just, I

mean, you're gonna have to start planning
now, for that March match, of how the

hell you're gonna get to the stadium.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
the

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Because,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Honest to

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
take, yes, take the Metro,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
If you are able, if you are Close

to a metro stop or if you can
drive to one and then go save

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
you know,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
the stress.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
might, it might even make sense to

drive away from the stadium, and then
go to a Metro stop to come back in,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, honestly.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
honestly, you don't know where all

the closures are going to happen.

Closures are probably not going to
happen anywhere near the actual stadium,

but because there's going to be enough
closures around the entire city,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
you're going to have a hard time, like,

if you're trying to come from the valley,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Take the metro.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
take the metro, the freeways are

going to be pretty easy, but, I mean,
if you're somewhere like in between,

like in Hollywood or anything,
like, it's just going to be a mess.

So, letting you know now,
marathon day, lots of traffic.

Figure it out.

and the big news, which I was happy
for about 30 seconds, and then I read

the asterisk, and I was like, hmm.

Decision Day is back.

Which, which was the biggest
gripe that we both had.

for, from the new revamped, NWSL
season last year, where it was

like, Oh, final day of the season
gets dragged on to like five days.

Oh, yay.

A very long, drawn out process.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
for us.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And there were, I believe, two matches

that had, like, critical outcomes.

Everything else was decided.

There was two matches that was like,
okay, you want to watch those because

it's like, what's going to happen up or
down, you know, in or out type thing.

this day, this time, Decision Day is
back with the caveat that it's two days.

because of, you know, you
got to get your TV money.

And, you know, I don't

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
fully knock them on about

that, but I do knock them

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
about that.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
on that, but also you have to remember

that very few of these teams get
first dibs on their stadiums, which

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
True.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
a comment I will make it

again in a little bit.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
True.

and so with that being said, decision
day is going to be on two days.

or no, not, not two days.

Sorry.

decision day is going to be all in
one day, but normally a traditional

decision day is all matches played
at once and one magical hour where

you can flip all the channels and be
like, what's happening over there?

What's happening over there?

See little score popups.

It's great.

This time they're like, oh no, CBS wants
to do a three o'clock game and a five

o'clock game, so they're gonna split.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
six other games, like,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, and then all the

other games will be on nwsl.

com, but like,

CBS, you have a streaming platform.

You can do all the games at once.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Paramount

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
didn't you say, why didn't

you say let me do all of them,
and we'll put them all on TV?

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

It's, it is what it is.

We're, at least we're getting
national broadcasts for decision day.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, it's gonna be on CBS, so.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
be happy about one thing, please.

It is abysmal outside.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Alright, well, we're up to where,

as far as like, my knowledge
base really kind of gets to.

I'm going to be a little bit in between
here, and then I'm just going to be able

to sprinkle in some color as we go along.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
All right, so there has been quite a

lot of movement since the new year.

A lot of it, a lot of what we're going
to talk about has already been announced.

A lot of it has literally
happened in the last four days.

So.

Reminder, we're recording on Monday night.

So it's the 27th.

It's 10 o'clock.

I'm delirious.

Let's go.

So next year, 2026, we've got two
more teams come into the league.

is still finding their balls, trying
to figure out what's going on.

You can thank Eva for that one because
she was looking at stuff with me and

she was like, Oh, so, Boston in general.

It's going through it.

Like, Balls FC will never leave.

We'll be 40 years in the future still
talking about this and how bad it was,

and it will probably be case study
for marketing classes at this point.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

I

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
sure it already is becoming one,

like, just, it's a whole thing.

Their shared stadium situation is wild.

appreciate the fact that they're
using public stadiums, but some

of the stuff doesn't make sense.

talked about it a little bit on
our last episode of the year.

probably get into it more once things
get clarified a little bit more,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
mean, especially since like, Boston

was like, announced like a decade ago.

Right?

Like, it seems like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
they had the

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
well, no, but, but I'm saying,

like, I'm saying the announcement
of them coming back, like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
years ago at this point.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah, it's like a hundred years

ago, and they're like, oh, in 2026?

It's like, it's like how,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Will we

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
it's like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
to 2026?

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
it's like how the original

Tomorrowland was a model of 1985,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Oh,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: to
be the future in 1985, and it was like,

it seemed so far away, and then, yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And then here we are.

With the same Tomorrowland.

Still hoping for the same things.

but we also got the announcement
that Denver is the second team

who is getting a team, second city
that's getting a team in 2026.

No one knows where they're going to play.

No one has any details about this team.

No one knows anything.

Maybe Berman does.

Who knows?

But right now, nobody in the public knows.

So, it is what it is.

However, like we said before, we
have a lot of friends involved

with the Cleveland Pro Soccer push.

Getting women's pro sports
back in Cleveland and we

still are mourning with you.

I didn't really want to go to Ohio,
but like I will for my friends.

I got friends in like
all the major cities.

Honestly, Cleveland, Dayton,
Cincinnati, Columbus.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Ohio for a purpose built stadium

that is being properly used and
not shared and not in the boonies,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like, There's also a lot of like,

environmentally ethical questions about
single use stadiums and things like that.

So there's a lot like, I have no
real big issue with shared stadiums.

I have an issue with shared
stadiums where a professional team

is coming in and they're getting
like 13th pick of the schedule.

Because what?

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
anyway.

Ford F 150

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
when you get a men's team coming in that

takes over your slot and now you get
pushed down the ranks and it's like, well.

That's, yeah, so,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
For

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I mean,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
know, that's, that's, San Diego FC.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: yes,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
their

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: so,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
their logo looks like an F 150 logo.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
so I, I completely get you on the whole,

like, stadium, single use stadiums,
I mean, that's one of the biggest,

kind of, wasted resources or wasted,
spaces, honestly, but I think in more

Recent times in the last two decades
and stuff like that, stadiums, one,

because there's such money sucks, like,
it takes a lot to build them and to

keep them running, and to update them so
people don't get bored with them, right?

Operators have been really good at

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Oh yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
keeping them full, like, BMO

is full all the fucking time.

There's, there's concerts going.

There's always concerts.

And the

I do, like, I'm not gonna say it's the
best thing in the world, but, like,

I do appreciate that the BMO Stadium

prioritizes the soccer that's being
played, like, what the intended use is,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
pitch, if you will.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
the pitch, if you will, and does

all they can to make sure that it's
going to be in a playable condition.

We've gone to events where it's like,
There was a concert literally, like, the,

in the middle of the week or the weekend
before, and then in, like, 48 hours,

they get it back into a playable stadium.

It's, it's not like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
is great.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
they're amazing, the, the, the field crew.

I mean, it's not like, it's not like
Staples where, like, changing from

a hockey rink to a basketball court
is, like, literally just laying down

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I mean,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
the, the court.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
though.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I mean, it's a lot.

I mean, it's a lot to freeze
water for an ice rink in like

12 hours, not even 12 hours.

They've done stuff where there's
like a basketball game and

then a hockey game afterwards.

But the fact that you
can do that in one day,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Mm-hmm

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: do
that with a natural grass field, right?

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And so,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
don't know if you're walking

up from like the green lot or
anything coming off of MLK.

Those, like, weird light
things that are there?

Those are grow lights.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
go in the stadium and help the

grass speed grow, which is, is cool.

I, I learned that a couple years ago
and it's one of those, like, random

facts where I'm like, these are,
these help the grass grow, like, cause

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
there's,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
big ol

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
there's some really cool, there's some

really cool pictures of BMO at night with
the grow, with the grow lights out there.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
It's cool.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: like
before a big game or anything like that.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
hmm.

Alright, so, about to
rip the Band Aid off.

We're gonna go, we're
gonna go hard and fast.

We're gonna go from a team finding their
balls to ripping Band Aids left and right.

and tell you all the names, like the big,
big names who are leaving the league.

As of right now, Monday night,
because guaranteed, The second

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
More stuff will happen.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Tuesday is going to be loaded

with more announcements.

Wednesday is going to be shenanigans.

So yes, we will update as we can,
but here's what we got Monday night.

As of right now, Ghettoline is
leaving NWSL and going to Man City.

Quinn is leaving the U.

S.

and good for them because they
don't deserve to be here with all

this horseshit that's going on.

and along with Nikki Stanton, they
are leaving the NWSL to go to the

Northern Super, Northern Super League?

Something like

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yes, something like that.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
that's starting, they're going

to be playing in Vancouver.

So of you Pacific Northwest
folks, go support them if you can.

they're both great.

Nikki Stanton, if you followed her
on TikTok, is absolutely hysterical.

recently told a story about the game
against, against us, against Angel

City, where she and a couple of the
other, she's from the Seattle area.

was telling this story about how all
the because they had a few people from

Seattle on the team and they kept being
like, L for Locals, L for Locals, and

all when she was explaining this, all
I could think of was that scene in

Dodgeball where the like, super nerdy

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
L's for love!

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
But they kept being like, Locals, Locals,

like where the Locals like, throw up
Ls everywhere, like that kind of thing.

So they she scores like, a late game goal.

Like a late in the game goal,
which ends up being, I can't

talk, oh my god, up being the game
winner, and she's like throwing

up an L and people are like, whoa!

She said in this TikTok, she's
like crying, laughing, and she's

just like, I did not think of that.

did not think of L for loser,
like, you know, 99 percent of the

population associates that with.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
She was, that she was throwing up the

loser to everybody, like is she just

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
locals.

And she's like, and then Angel
City's just like, wow, Nikki.

And she goes, the amount of text
messages I sent to apologize.

it's so funny because it was
just so innocently wrong.

You know,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
where you just like, stick both

feet in your mouth and you're
just like, this is terrible.

so

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: Oh.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
it's just going to be sad to lose two

fantastic players to another league.

But good for them, too.

The rain is doing some
weird, weird stuff up there.

I don't know what's going on.

We got news today, which I think
kind of shocked a lot of people

because there was no rumor.

There was like no big rumor mill around
this one, but Jenna Neiswanger is

leaving Gotham and heading to Arsenal.

Like that dropped at 1.

30, 2 o'clock today.

my phone just was like from
another Discord I'm in from

that Ali and M from State Champs
and Soccer Moms FC podcast run.

That's like everybody's like what?

What is this?

What is happening?

And then the dun dun
dun, the big holy crap.

We just had a record transfer fee.

Naomi Gurma.

Naomi Gurma.

ran the hell out of San Diego,
which I don't think anybody blames

her at this point, head to Chelsea
with a million dollar transfer fee.

That's not even her salary.

She's getting

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Was it, wasn't it 1.

1?

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
What?

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Wasn't it 1.

1 million?

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Okay.

It's still a million dollars plus more.

Like,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
who shall remain nameless

because I cannot name them.

Because we were like,
what is all this money?

What is a million dollars?

What is San Diego going to do with that?

And I was like, pay all their
lawsuits, but there's reasons

why I can't say why I said that.

But yeah, like big major, major news.

And like, the NWSL needs to get
their shit together because this

is going to keep happening if bad
stuff keeps happening in the NWSL.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, yeah.

honestly, I mean,

so I, I'm going to go with like
something that, that, the Kooligans

were saying, that, There, there's
inherently a bias for European soccer.

I think on the women's side,

the reality is that the NWSL is a
way better league competitively.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, there's like, the parody

in the NWSL is better, but,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
pa parody in the Amer to the American

leagues has always been, you know, kind
of better and like, that's the whole,

that's the way the structure is made.

And we've had better competition,
it's been around longer, like, it's,

you know, yes, there's been starting
stops to the whole league, but I mean,

it's been around and it's established.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
In the European leagues, they've got the

name and the history behind them, right?

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
the

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: And,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like the cultural and societal support.

Like

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
which hasn't been

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
NWSL are like swimming upstream

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, but, in, in comparison to the
men's side where there's clearly a

better product in the European leagues
and in, and in the, the South American

leagues, like, there's clearly better
product, better talent that we're trying

to attract, whereas in the women's
league, we are the better product.

And,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
associated with Team USA.

Like,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: you
get the name and the clout and like, yes,

Chelsea has won like, tons of trophies,
but also they've won tons of trophies at

the very beginning of the league where
there was like, not too many teams around.

Like, you know, there's one of
those things where it's like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like, I mean, we see it a little bit

in the, in the NWSL, but you have
teams like Chelsea and Arsenal and Man

City and Man United, like, and then

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
and then they,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
and like,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
and then they, They also have,

Champions League, you know, so now
you're starting to play, like, the

Spanish team and the French teams.

So, like, there's clout there,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

Mm

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
also because they can pay their

players whatever they want to
pay them and bring in top talent.

So, NWSL, like, they gotta keep
their, their eyes on this, because

if they don't, all that top talent
is literally gonna fly overseas.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
hmm.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: And
the, the WSL is just gonna get better.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
WSL, Ligong, Sedia'a, like, they're

all just gonna keep getting better,
they're gonna keep taking talent

from us, and then they're gonna keep
taking talent that is up and coming.

So, yeah.

Yeah.

So, yes.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
We don't have a development league

in any women's sports in country
and it is frustrating, but that's

a rant for a different podcast

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Okay, we were going to, speed

through these, so let's go.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Whoops.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Whoops,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
because like Mario has started a new job.

So like we don't talk all the time like

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I mean granted he was working

before but like different.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
it's different when you

do a new job, where like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
job, yeah, because it's

like a new environment.

You have to learn the new
things and I'm like you're busy.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: and
I also got germs from the new play, so

like, I got sick, like, right off the bat.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Boo!

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
why I'm all stuffy,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, because you have to now?

Like, you're not working from home?

Like, it's

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah.

So.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
anyway, so, to kind of do a quick whip

around of the league, to kind of give
you some idea of what's been going

on, there's been a lot of movement.

It wasn't until the 15th, I believe, of
January that the new CBA took effect.

So all the trades and movement
that happened before the end of

last year, all that was under the
new or the old CBA, excuse me.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And by that, meaning that the new

CBA requires the player to give
consent, essentially, to being traded.

the old CBA did not require that.

For most of these, though, I do
believe it was very much on, like,

a, I want to go, I want to leave.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
few months of the CBA, they

were just like, you good with

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, technically, they didn't
have to, but, like, yeah, they,

they, they definitely think,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
or,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
haven't heard that anybody was

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Just treated out of nowhere.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like there was last season

or the season before that.

So yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
All right.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Okay, so Seattle whether it

was on her own accord or not.

I don't know.

I don't like it still.

I'm still upset.

Manny Curry left us for
Seattle forever depressed.

I hope she has an amazing career.

Honestly, like she's great.

She's great.

And she's gonna do great up there.

She's gonna do great wherever
she goes, but dang it.

and then week, week before, something
like that, recently, we got the

news that Lynn Williams is leaving
Gotham and heading to Seattle.

And for those aren't on, whoa, so
social media, Lynn got married.

very

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

Yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
so you'll see her new, her kit

this season, know, it's They didn't
take her advice, like that M in

You and I came up with in that

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Oh, and

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
no

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
names for a year, so it's not her maiden

name and her married name, she's switching
to her married name, which is Biendolo.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
okay, yeah, yeah, they

need transition kits.

Yeah,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
but I mean, Lynn is Lynn, regardless.

And I think for so many, it's the same
kind of thing with, like Julie Ertz,

for a long time fans like, that's JJ.

Julie Johnston.

I don't know who Julie Ertz
is, you know, like that kind

of thing, but it is what it is.

And I'm so happy for her.

She looks so happy.

The pictures from both of their weddings,
cause they had like wedding, they

just did so many like cultural events.

It was just beautiful,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah, I mean, NWSL off season is

wedding season because, I mean,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
most sports off season is like wedding

and babies, but NWSL this year,
big, like all kinds of weddings.

Yeah.

Just lots of weddings.

It's been really fun on social
media seeing everybody get married.

and it doesn't look any of
them did it under a duress.

Sorry.

I'm, I'm having big, what's going on?

so what the hell am I
going to do for my future?

the Houston Dash, speaking of things
that kind of are on fire, they're,

they're going through like a full.

A full housecleaning, all kinds of stuff.

head coach.

A new GM.

Ryan, also someone who left Gotham.

Westfall, Delaney Sheehan.

And then we get the news today that
Messiah Bright just got traded, which

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
We'll get to it.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah, we'll

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
We'll get to it.

We'll get to it.

we need some time.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
they a whole new team.

Their new GM is Angela Hughleys Mongano.

Like, they're basically,
like, at this point.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Angela, Angela did a guest spot on,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
oh

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: on,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
on the Houston, on the Houston

Dash, podcast, Noodle, Noodle Time.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I think it's in real time,

but, OSG is, is branching out.

So they're kind of

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
the Dash

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
the, what is the men's team called?

Dynamo.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Dynamo.

Yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Okay.

Well that, and

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: So

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
so

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
two things.

Dynamo, all I think of is label
makers, the Dynamo label maker.

And yeah.

And Yasmine, all I can think of is Yasmine
Bleeth, the joke from like, from Friends.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
you, from friends, I'm over

here like, from Baywatch, like,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Well, yes, from Baywatch, but

like, the, the, there was a Friends
joke about the Yasmine Bleeth.

Um, okay.

So yeah, there's a whole
bunch of stuff going on there.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Texas doing stuff.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
The Spirit haven't made too many

big waves this offseason, they
signed a roomie, which is great.

But like, okay, cool.

I'm going to come back to the
next team because that's a lot.

Bay FC has lost both Deyna Castellanos,
or is it Castellanos or Castellanos?

I've heard it both ways and I
inherently in my brain think

is wrong because Spanish,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
gonna say Janos.

Janos.

Yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
But I also don't, so

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Deyna.

Yeah.

Yes.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
so like their first couple

signings dipped, which.

It's stressful.

they also, they picked
up Tata Malazzo, right?

Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Utah Royals did.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Oh, Utah Royals, I skipped my own notes.

So, Alex Loera went from BFC to Utah,
Utah picks up Tata Malazzo, and like

a handful of other players, and it's
just like, yeah, there's a lot of

reasons I don't appreciate Utah, but.

It is not nature.

Nature in Utah is
wonderful, but that's it.

Bay of Seas had some movement too.

just a lot, a lot going on.

Orlando Pride marches back.

Two year announcement.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: Yep.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
That was

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
She gave everybody She gave everybody

You don't know the amount of texts
that I got from Angela, and the

amount of messages on the Discord
about the teaser, where it's like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
was

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Marta announcement, and

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like teary eyed Marta.

And then she's like, we're
two more years, throwing her

hat in the air, like, shut up.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
But it was also, like, this really

dark, moody picture of her locker

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
in it,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah.

And

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
it's, like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Orlando, loved

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I've had here with you.

And it was like, oh my
God, she's retiring.

She's like, LOL, JK, haha, just kidding.

Fooled ya.

Yeah, so March is back.

That's really, that's really what matters.

Genuinely, out of all of these signings
and trades and everything, the fact that

March will be signed for two more years.

gonna play till she's 40
good for her because I'm not.

Yeah, there's just so much but
also like the Chicago Red Stars

rebranded and it makes me mad.

Because now they're
just the Chicago Stars.

I'm like, do not, why'd you
take away the Red Stars?

Because it's so important to the city.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
you know, I, I,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
add another star to their flag at any time

if there's an important event held there.

Because each one of those stars, it's
for the Olympics, the World's Fair,

like, they're like significant cultural
events or why those stars are there.

And I feel like to take
that out is stupid, but

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And I, I kind of laugh at the, I

kind of laugh at the, the idea of
rebranding the Red Stars, because,

This happened with the Chicago Fire.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Really?

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Oh, yeah, last year.

I think it was last season.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
this.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, I know.

I know you don't.

But, Chicago Fire did a whole rebrand
to be like, ooh, because we're gonna,

you know, because Chicago Fire is one
of the the older teams in the league.

I think they were the one of
the the 90, the since 96 teams.

So they were like, ooh,
time for a refresh.

And so like, they redid their logo,
which got rid of like the kind of, the,

the nods to, like, the firefighters
and things like that in Chicago,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Like there was

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
and, and,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
a fire in

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
it was,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
that burned the whole city down.

Yep.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
was one of those things where, like,

ah, you know when you've seen those
comparisons where it's, like, the, the,

the logo is, or the brand is, like,
updating their logo, but it loses all

All sense of personality, all sense
of anything for the sake of modernism.

That's what exactly what it was

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
People hated it.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Well,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And there was a big ass protest.

They, they even released the kits
with the kit, with the stuff.

And then they had to, they basically
pulled a Boston and, eventually I believe.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
cities that have like

these storied histories.

Like you have Boston, like
one of the original cities

of the whole friggin country.

They have Chicago where all
kinds of cool shits happened.

You just

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Boss Nation.

What the fuck is that?

Okay.

All right.

Well, yes.

anyways, Chicago, do write by your, by
your city and like, and again, also,

we're also talking from the outside.

If like, this is totally cool with
Chicagoans, then someone let us know.

But like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Nothing I've

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
we hear, yeah, I've seen bad things.

So

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like like you said for Chicago

Firehut just like became bland.

That's what it feels like you're taking
out the heart of the city and like.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
The, the excited, like, the

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
on the Red Stars being this, and I

think part of the press release, the
communist, annotation, connotations to it.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Chicago?

Did you not learn?

Like, I know so much about Chicago
because one of my best friends

lived in Chicago for like five or
six years and like, in the same way

that I want to know everything about
everything I can, she's the same way.

So it's like, she was
like, I love this city.

She worked for the Chicago Tribune, like.

She, she was so ingrained in Chicago
culture, it like, you know, seeps out

into your friends, you teach them.

And

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
to see her, it was like,

here's a tour of Chicago.

And I was like, hell yeah, this is dope.

I love Chicago.

I just don't like their branding.

But yeah,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Alright, we, we lost, we lost

another player to another team.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
We did, we lost Rocky Rodriguez

and I'm still mad about it and I'll
forever be mad about it because

what the hell was last season?

In general, Kansas City effectively
got better, which, okay.

they picked up Rocky, they picked up Jaden
Shaw, they picked up Laurel Ivory, who's

a goalie, and it's just like, damn it!

What the hell?

in, in the way that every, like, this
is just kind of a callback to what

we talked about a lot last season
with Vlatko heading Kansas City.

Like, this is the Vlatko
of the before days.

Before

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
not, not, not the national team

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, not

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
days.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Vlotko.

No one knows who that was.

He was body snatched as
far as I'm concerned.

Like this is club Vlotko where
Becky Sauerbrunn won a championship

with him in Kansas City.

This is like, this is a big time.

He is a fantastic coach.

I don't know what happened at the
national level and it's a bummer

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And see, for me, for me, Vlocko, for

me, has been National Team Vlocko.

Like, I didn't know him, I
didn't know him in club days, so,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
when people didn't even know

they had a team in Kansas City,
like original Kansas City FC.

Not the

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
so, like, when, when he took

over and then just went, like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
that's why so many people

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
ham on everybody, yeah,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Who are you?

What happened to you?

Are you okay?

Like, knock, knock, are you in there?

Kind of thing.

Where'd you go?

but yeah, lots of movement.

And then with Gotham, they pick up
Jalen Howell in the Lynn Williams

trade, like, Midge isn't re signed.

Half their team is gone.

They've traded a whole
bunch of players away.

Like, I don't know what's going on.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
So, I, we've, we've heard things

or murmurings of, just a bad, toxic

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Bad vibes.

I

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
bad vibes, but also,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
interview with Lynn.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah, but also, also, they went,

they went, like, top dollar to try to
build, like, a starred, studded team

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
which is

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
season.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
because you go from having a championship

team, one player retires, and then
you take all these people who had

been starting, built this team, were
fantastic, and said, go sit down.

And you bring in all these other players,
which, okay, that happens, but like,

why?

You

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
then,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
star team.

Where did it go?

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: and
they were doing, they were doing well.

I mean, they beat us, but,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Who

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
who didn't?

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: But
yeah, I think that's going to be another

one that's going to be interesting in that
the rumors might be a cloud over them.

and.

You know, hopefully, my hope is
always that people don't work

in shitty places, like, no,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
so, you know, hopefully the rumors get

resolved, not brushed away, get resolved,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yep.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
and things can be better, and

you build a better team that
way, But yeah, and you know what?

If Midge wants to get some sun
in LA, I, you know, won't be mad.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

I, I don't know.

It's wild.

Oh, I think I mentioned
it before really quick.

Going back to the spirit.

Nicole Barnhart retired.

My, my 40 year old keeper,
national team retiree.

Like, is a big deal.

And like.

fact that these women are playing
into their 40s is so crazy but

like so cool at the same time.

Kelly O'Hara retired.

Like, Gotham also has people retiring.

It's been a big sad year
for retirement, y'all.

Like, I can't, we talked
about it, but like, yeah, it's

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
We did our, so we did our retirement

episode and then a bunch of
people retired in the off season.

So we're like, ah, man, we're
probably going to have to,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Just

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
maybe

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
good.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
there's a little bit of a break in the

middle of the season towards And that's it
for this middle second half of the season.

Maybe we'll do a retirement 2.

5 episode.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
know who's going to announce

their retirement yet.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
True.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And I don't it because there's

a cloud looming over Angel City
right now for a variety of reasons.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

So, yes.

With that, Thorns?

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, so Portland has made some

moves, Sam Hyatt, is a big deal,
and then dun dun dun, San Diego,

that's who I skipped earlier.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Oh yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
In the weird vibes of when Sav

left and they did the video running
the wrong way, like all that.

We obviously didn't re sign Didi, I
don't know, by choice, by not, whatever.

Which is a bummer because I think she,
her soccer IQ, which I've mentioned a ton.

I think it's there, I think she would
have been a good, like, I don't want

to say like a bench keeper, but like,
You know, as somebody gets up there

in their career, you shift your role.

I think it would have been fine.

I think it has to do with like
coaching and ownership and all that

kind of stuff, but she found her way
down to San Diego along with Becky,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Apparently, yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
not really been announced.

I haven't

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
It has.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
to be an assistant.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Hasn't been announced, but internet

sleuths that are more sharp
eyed than me, I wear glasses.

now, I don't want to talk about it,
I want to get my laser done again.

But, well the fact that I paid for laser,
and now I have to wear my glasses again,

that's what happens when you get old.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Your

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
You're not a robot, Mario.

Thank goodness.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Damn it.

I thought I was paying for laser eyes.

okay, so, internet sleuths.

Totally, we're like, hey, I spy
with my little eye, and like, it was

a quick, like, half a second shot
of Becky standing with their head

coach during a training session.

The point of the video was all about
like, we're back, and like, all the

players, like, DD training, like,
it was all that, it was all good.

Split second.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
who was that?

Hold up.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I don't think she was in the

video at all from there on out.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
No,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
It was this one split second.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And then the, the, someone on

like Reddit was like, I see Becky.

I'm like, holy shit.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
But you know what, I'm actually really

happy about this because I don't think
she was ready for the head coaching

spot when it was like thrown at her
or like thrust at her kind of thing.

Like,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
We were, I mean, yes, we, we

were, we were on the Becky train.

We were on the Becky Sparkles tour.

so I'm not gonna try to retcon
and be like, oh, I didn't think.

But the, but we, we.

But we, we definitely,

we definitely think, okay, I, not
gonna, I don't want to speak for Angela

here, I definitely think that yes,
she wasn't, maybe she wasn't ready,

but like a lot of people getting
their opportunity on something

doesn't mean that you're ready for it.

Like you, you need to.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
ready

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, it rarely means you're ready for it.

and so I just think she got,

unfortunately, kind of
a shit deal of like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like you're gonna be interim, then

you did a really great job with your
interim status, so we're gonna give

you a head coach for a year, yet you're
not really gonna get to do anything

else in the efforts of building a
team like that, you know, so like

You don't give a head coach,

a good head coach doesn't
want to take a team and not be

able to do anything with them.

Right?

And I don't, and I don't think Becky
just was like, hey, thank you for the

opportunity, I'll do what, you know,
I, I'm pretty sure there was stuff that

wanted to be done that she didn't get
the opportunity to, and so it's just,

plus injuries, like, we thought we were,
we thought we were healthy going into

the season and then it all fell apart.

So,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I just, I just heard a stat that,

like, we had 42 goals scored on us.

Like, ugh.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
That hurt.

I didn't need to

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
it hurt.

so I,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I know.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: yes.

so yes, I, I'm happy that she's there.

I mean, Freya went to go be assistant
coach under, Flacco, and they did amazing.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Sometimes

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: so,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
a little longer, players,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
all that.

But in the, in the same vein of
like, I'm glad she's working.

There is also very, very, very little
room for error for female coaches.

You mess up one season, you're
never seen again across sport.

it's bullshit when.

A male coach can have like zero wins
on a season, be harassing people, be

a terrible human, and they're like, 10
year extension, you know, like, what?

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
there's a difference between not

even getting a second chance failing
up in a, in a coaching disparity.

And then you wonder why women
aren't pursuing coaching.

Like there's no future there.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
until there's that balance of like,

Oh, you didn't do so hot here, but
you didn't do super bad either.

So like, let's, let's
get you somewhere else.

Like, I'm glad she's having, Freya
too, like, I'm glad they both have

another opportunity to kind of grow
and learn and hopefully eventually get

back to the point of head coaching.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah, and if, I mean, if they can

parlay that into another head coaching
gig in the NWSL, and I mean, now

with the, the fact that the USL Super
League is around, there's now more.

Potential coaching opportunities, the
Canadian League coming on, online,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
there's a lot more

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: so,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
and I hope they get the chance to take it.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah, yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
so, besides the two,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
dun dun time

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah, the two, well,

then for them or for us?

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
for us for it's time to

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: Oh,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Angel

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I was gonna say the last,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
a deep dive.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: yes,
I was gonna say the last thing with SD.

Like, they, they gained two.

Good, good things.

they're also dealing with
tons of still shit of

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And more shit

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
being

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
getting uncovered.

So

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
now, so Yeah.

so yeah, they've, they've
got stuff to figure out.

Yeah.

Saunas, saunas, saunas.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
or that we've had on this podcast

like, literally like, what is this?

what is this?

And then why do you have this and this?

Like, but nobody's talking about it.

Like this, it's very odd.

And I think that's where a lot of
people are getting really upset

with the league and being like,
I'm not dealing with this anymore.

Which if Naomi Gurma had been going
through stuff and said, bye, I'm going to

a whole other country, I don't blame her.

Same with Jaden Shaw.

Like, I don't blame him.

But, so quick little, to say 10
seconds about Angel City, but

lol, we all know that's not true.

So, as of right now, we have
a new training facility.

Hell yeah, we don't have to share.

It's beautiful.

It's top notch.

I would love to go there.

Yes, everyone so pumped about saunas.

If you haven't already watched the video
that the team put out, go watch it.

It's hysterical.

Like It's also so sweet because you see
Kap and you see Sarah Gorden, who is also

Kapton, but Ali Riley is Kap forever.

you see Syd, you see Chris
Impress, you see the older players,

like, oh my god, it's real.

Like, you can actually, like, they did it.

We don't have to share, we don't have
to, we have top of the line stuff.

We have saunas, we have ice baths,
we have hot baths, like, we have

all the things we need, finally.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: a
proper, workout room that's not a tent.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah,

have like shared spaces.

You have more private spaces for
the minors who are on the team.

You have spaces for the moms on the team.

Like there is so

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
there's a

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
that was put into this.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
there's, daycare services, daycare center.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, like it's big

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: it's

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
it's so important.

And like, honestly, I think more teams
need to have private training facilities

than they do their own stadiums.

That's kind of where I stand on it.

Like

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: yes.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
shared training facilities more

shared training facilities, less.

I don't care about.

stadiums.

Just more parody and like equity in
the scheduling of shared stadiums.

That's what it is.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
You all know what we were trying to say.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Again, I slept like garbage last night.

I had nightmares all night.

like maybe two hours of sleep.

I've been up since 4 30.

I don't know how I'm even coherent

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Functioning right now.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
It's the Capri

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: And,
who's to say we're coherent right now?

I mean, I have to listen back to this
afterwards, so, I'll let you know.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, we have a new

sporting director slash GM.

We'll see.

Mark Parsons.

he has a storied past in the league
from, I believe North Carolina.

I want to say North Carolina.

I'm doubting myself right
now because I'm tired.

and also, or the, it's either
North Carolina or the Spirit.

I cannot reach that part
of my brain right now.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I, I don't know right now.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
done some really good team building.

Like, not like.

team building, but like building a team.

so we'll see what happens right now.

We have Sam Lady, who wasn't really
announced as an interim head coach.

It was just kind of mentioned.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Oh, then it was announced afterwards.

I think, I think they kind of had to, I

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
BT

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
they had to announce it because

he said it like an oppressor.

Yeah,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
but Sam did stints at both

Houston and the Reign as interim
head coach with varied results.

But I, I think it's fine, genuinely.

I would rather the team, and Mark
Parsons said this, like he wants

to make a very concerted effort to
get the best coach for this team.

And that's going to take time.

Yeah.

That's fine.

this point, whatever.

Like, the time, get the person
who's going to do the job.

And like, whether it's half the season,
three quarters of the season, cool.

please just, please, please, please.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah.

we haven't heard anything about the
rest of the, the, coaching staff.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
No.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
as in, like, are they still here?

like, are, are they still part of it?

Are they moving on?

Like, there haven't been
any other announcements.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
on already.

The keeper

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah, the,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
and the

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
coach moved on.

I don't know.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Why should I?

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah, I don't know.

But, So, I mean, that's all still to come.

We'll have, we'll definitely be
doing a Angel City season deep dive.

so we'll be talking a lot more
as we learn more, about these new

players, about the interim coach
and style and, I mean, they're gonna

have some matches in Coachella, at
the Coachella Valley Invitational.

We'll get to see some interaction and
how they're kind of going from there.

And, Yeah, looking forward to it.

And, you know, like we, like we've shown
previously with Tweed taking over halfway

through the season, you can go on a run.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Mm

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
And you can,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yep.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
you can go on a run that can

get you into the playoffs.

So, a lot can happen.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
used to be.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: Yes,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
and there's no more dumb tournament in

the middle of the whole thing, so, as
of right now, who knows, they're gonna,

some money grab move is gonna happen,
but, as of right now, there's no,

like, you know, oh, this international
tournament's happening, so let's

give everybody else something to do.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
year, so no, no World Cup, no Olympics,

but for Angel City, team wise, like
we said earlier, Messiah Bright was

announced today on Monday that she's
being traded to Houston for dollars,

monopoly money, I don't know, it's
not allocation money, it's something,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
a hundred, It's 100, 000 guaranteed

plus an extra 50 on some,
don't pass go Monopoly money,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like you

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
a hotel, like, park place hotel,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
there's probably a rhyme and reason.

It's one of these things where it makes,
the NWSL and the MLS very unique in the

way the money structure happens, the
fact that one, there's a salary cap,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah.

I

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
and two

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
unique to like American sports in general.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, in general.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
anywhere else.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
and that's, that, that does, that is what

creates the parody, among the, the, all
the teams, and that's what makes it kind

of, that does make it really exciting.

Like, you're not going to get a, like,
Man City, or, like, a, a Chelsea that

runs away with, like, five titles
in a row, and it's like, well, yeah,

because you're, like, so close.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
14.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, and

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: has,
you know, Chelsea money to, like, burn.

So, that, that, that is a good
thing, you know, comes with the

bad too of not being able to pay
players, like, really top dollar.

but the other thing is, all
these convoluted stupid rules,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
it's so irritating how money

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I believe, I believe the new

CBA is getting rid of, right?

Like, I think they're,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
money anymore, which

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like, the

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
who knew what that was to begin with?

A lot of that went away with the, with
the draft because there's like not,

you're not trading for Draft picks.

So like a lot of it is kind of null now.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
but so good news player.

Like I think Messiah wanted
to be closer to home.

I don't know.

There was, she left Orlando
after her rookie season

reasons, which we don't know.

I can assume some, but then I

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
She was never a hundred per

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
that she was really happy that

she was going to be like by her
family and closer because she's

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
She

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
TCU.

So like, she's also
reunited with Yasmeen Ryan.

So I think that was part of it.

They played in college together.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

And I mean, to, to be fair, like, we
were all excited, and it, this came out

of seemingly left field for everyone,
like, everybody got blindsided on this,

but she was never a hundred percent,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, she

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
when we had her.

So,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
end.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I think her Underuse is a different

case than Rocky's underuse,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
A hundred percent.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: but

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
just erase

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
both still stuck.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
it over?

Please, get those players, like, let's,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
only, the only thing, the, the only

silver lining that we might have is
the same thing we said at the end of

the season, which was, statistically,
not statistically because that's

probably the wrong word, but the
team that ended towards the bottom.

won and were at the top.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
The last

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
did a complete flip in the last two

years, so we're at the bottom now.

We can be one of those teams
that go to the top, right?

So,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
good news, Angel City wise.

Press extended.

People are like, oh my
god, it's only for a year.

Yeah.

One, she's got to figure
her body out still.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Two, it's also like a

show yourself contract.

And three.

When you're later in your career, why
are you signing a 10 year extension?

You know, like don't expect long term
contracts in general across sport because

your body is going to do different things.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
maybe you don't want to play

after a year or two or, you
know, like, that kind of thing.

But I think she has a player
option for a second year.

Who knows?

We'll see what

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
who knows?

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
like, get ready.

More of it, like, there's only a couple
19ers left and get ready for it because

it's going to just be depressing again.

signed Hodge out of, I think, Mississippi
State, and she's apparently very good.

And we signed Julie Defoe from France.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Friends, yeah.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
This one this house up because

one of Eva's favorite players
signed with Angel City.

Like, it was two seconds, she is no
longer with her WSL club and Eva texts

me going, man, if only she signed with
Angel City, to being like, Ahhhhh, Alana

Kennedy is coming back to the NWSL!

Like, full on voice messages, written text
messages, screaming, gifs, everything.

This is a big deal.

a fantastic defender.

She's a center back, which, who,
who said that we needed another one?

It was me.

apparently Vanessa Gilles
is coming back this season.

I'll believe it when I see it.

But, Alana Kennedy can
play that back line.

She can play defensive mid.

So we have versatility in her.

We have, I think Macy Hodge
is also a defensive mid.

So like, there's, we have a midfield.

Like, ha, ha, ha.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: Hi,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
ha, ha.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
we have midfield,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
what other moves we make besides a head

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
defense, like,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
see.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
yeah.

you know, we had a embarrassment of
riches up in the front in, in forwards,

but when we can't get the ball up to
them, and we still do, but when we can't

get the ball up to them, They can't
do what they need to do, and so that's

where the whole system falls apart.

You can't have a full team of
strikers and forwards, you can't

have a full team of defenders.

you gotta find that balance, and it
needs to work, and the first couple

games we were freakin Swiss cheese.

never really found the right thing, and so

We're looking on the up, right?

We're on the come up right now.

So, all right.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
so that is our, what we thought

was going to be quick recap
of things that have happened.

We did gloss over, we did
gloss over a bunch of stuff.

So, we will be doing a in depth NWSL
preview, hopefully with special guests.

If not, you know, more of
us, about the league entirety

and kind of where they're at.

especially post, training and then,
getting into the actual season, we'll

have a full breakdown of Angel City and
what we should be expecting with them.

and that is coming forthwith.

And, ooh, I did post up on, Instagram
threads and Blue Sky just throwing out

the question of, like, what's been your,
I used emojis, so I used the hard eye

emojis, the, oh my God, the crying and
the teary-eyed off season move so far.

And you know, we got our, our trusty

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
laughing or teary eyed like crying?

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
teary-eyed, like, oh,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Oh, right, right.

I didn't.

Oh, the little like, like,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120: you
got the little, like sparkle in your eye.

Yeah, that one.

all right, so we got our trusty people,
trusty casuals, coming in with, responses.

So we've got, Dustin gave
us the, oh my god, face.

Gurma to Chelsea, NWSL better
watch out because NWSL will

poach all the best talent.

And yes, I agree, Dustin, totally agree.

Alex came in with the cry face,
Gurma leaving to the wave, and then

starry eyed face, Gurma setting the
new record for the transfer fee.

I mean, that's just, it's one of
those things where like, okay,

yes, Colorado, you set the new
record for a brand new franchise.

And I know that money goes, get, you
know, spread the wealth, but, still,

what, what are you doing?

alright,

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Where are you going to play anyway?

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Jeff came in with the hard eyes, CP

re signing, and then the oh my god
face of Gurma going to Chelsea, and

the crying face of Boston's No Ball
campaign, and then the teary eyes

of Tweed and DeeDee in San Diego.

and then, Zach came in with,
I mean, seeing Didi go to SD.

I'm like, mm, mm, awkward.

Sad to see her go, but
also, eh, shrug emoji?

and then, why do we have an interim
coach going into the preseason?

again, like we said, the Parsons,
the, the new director, said, you

know, he's gonna take as long as it's
gonna take to find the right person.

And he trusts this person apparently to,
Sam to be this interim coach for now.

maybe, maybe it runs in, in
line with what Mark is thinking

as far as playing strategy and
how the team is being built up.

I don't know.

And actually having a vision that way
and then, you know, slotting in a head

coach that has the same kind of strategy
and vision means that you're not creating

opposing ideas and then you're just
putting yourself in even worse positions.

So, Katie came in with Alana Kennedy
taking number 14 cry emoji three times.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

And this is sorry for rubbing
salt in your wound, Katie.

For those who don't remember, number
14 was Paige's number, but, but

I will say Alana Kennedy is dope.

Get excited for her.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah, okay.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
I will.

I was about to ask you,
wait, who was number 14?

but yeah, okay, I will get excited.

I'm, I was waiting to ask you live so that
I can like get it, you know, but okay.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
of like me hanging up, like leave session.

Stop recording, bye.

French, my, so, really quick, on our
recording platform, like, you put

your name and you put your pronouns,
and it's Mario and I, we know each

other, we know each other's pronouns,
we've taken to making it, like, fun.

And I said, friends forever, today, I was
gonna put fed slash up, just because I am.

With, like, life, but,

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Cause life.

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Eva was like, friends forever!

And I was like, okay,
so I put that instead.

So, friends forever.

Chill out.

squadcaster-cj49_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Yeah.

Okay.

all right.

And then our last one, Meg with Grima.

Leaving the NWSL cry face.

you know, you, you, you all, I think we
all are on the same, the same wavelength

when it comes to all of these things
that have happened across the league.

I'm still amazed by the number of
people that are fans of the entire

league and not just like, this is
my team, fuck you, everybody else.

but I kind of love it, you know?

so it is what it is.

Thank you for sticking around this long.

Oh, so

angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
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angela--friends-forever-_1_01-27-2025_215120:
Thanks for

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