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Start every morning of the 2023 World Cup with Full Time passed directly to your inbox. Sign up here. Am I jealous that Steph crossed paths with Jason Momoa? Yes, yes I am. It’s Emily Olsen here with Meg Linehan and Steph Yang — welcome to Full Time! I’m hardly going to wax poetic in these updates, but I’m starting to feel melancholy creep in as we get toward the end of this magnificent journey. The group stage had me up nearly 18 hours a day, mostly in my hotel room — though I did get to sneak away to Waiheke Island where I fell in a pile of mud and it was wonderful. The...

Start every morning of the 2023 World Cup with Full Time passed directly to your inbox. Sign up here. Weirdly, I’m going to miss Melbourne. I’m Emily Olsen, here with Meg Linehan and Steph Yang — welcome to Full Time! This has been a great World Cup for exciting, technical and close soccer games. England and Nigeria’s matchup was exactly that and, like USWNT vs. Sweden, it went to penalty kicks where England prevailed. While the Super Falcons fell short of becoming the first African nation to win a knockout game in Women’s World Cup history, they came close with multiple...

Start every morning of the 2023 World Cup with Full Time passed directly to your inbox. Sign up here. Please don’t send me Al Pacino’s “Any Given Sunday” speech. I’m Emily Olsen, here with Meg Linehan and Steph Yang — welcome to Full Time! Look, it’s been a long night (morning?), so I won’t bury the lede. Here’s how the U.S. bowed out of the World Cup in its earliest exit ever, losing to Sweden 5-4 on penalty kicks in the World Cup round of 16 at AAMI Park in Melbourne. Let’s recap: 120 minutes scoreless, despite 22 shots, 583 passes and a 77% passi...

Start every morning of the 2023 World Cup with Full Time passed directly to your inbox. Sign up here. I’m currently typing this from the Melbourne Fan Zone and watching what I can only describe as the hip-hop Wiggles. I’m Emily Olsen, here with Meg Linehan and Steph Yang — welcome to Full Time! “It wouldn’t be a major tournament if we weren’t facing Sweden,” U.S. captain Lindsey Horan said at a media availability on Thursday. It’s true. This will be the seventh time the U.S. and Sweden will meet at a women’s World Cup, the most-played matchup in the...

Start every morning of the 2023 World Cup with Full Time passed directly to your inbox. Sign up here. After a quick “rest day,” I think I finally know what an F1 pit stop feels like. I’m Emily Olsen, here with Meg Linehan and Steph Yang — welcome to Full Time! Obviously, this newsletter has a strong American influence, but I think we all need a break, and this rest day has come at the perfect time. There are so many other great stories I want to highlight before that U.S. game against Sweden (there is still plenty of time to talk about that one). Parity has become a key...