Squad Depth

Nothing quite like hanging out -- in podcast form -- with one your favourite women's soccer journalists, is there? Well, in the first Squad Depth of 2025, the special guest is writer and podcaster Andre Carlisle. Theo asks Andre about his football journey, from entering the world of soccer blogs to becoming a renowned podcaster, newsletter writer, and his spicy skeets. The two chat about the origi...

These days, I find myself wondering what doesn't Jill Loyden do? This week, Squad Depth sat down with Loyden to get to know the former USA goalkeeper turned broadcaster, turned teacher, coach, and skill-builder, a bit better. In addition to commentating on matches for ESPN, ION, and CBS, Loyden founded the Keeper Institute in her home state of New Jersey. For the past 10 years, the place has been...

Where were you when you were 17? Vesna Milivojević was becoming a professional footballer for her hometown club, Western Sydney Wanderers. Walking out onto a pitch ten minutes away from where she grew up. The first steps in a profession she has been laser-focused on since she was a small child. Milivojević, now 22, is also a key player for the Serbian national team. She decided to play for the cou...

At just 24, footballer Madelyn Desiano has experienced a lot. Life-shattering knee injuries, national championships, raw emotions on draft night, living out your goals, becoming a professional, and crossing the Atlantic to keep the dream alive. Speaking to host Theo Lloyd-Hughes on the Squad Depth podcast, Desiano tells her story from Southern California to Odense, Denmark. Stories from her enthra...

We're turning our focus back off the pitch, and the people helping grow the beautiful game. So, this week the founder of Women Kick Balls, Jackie Gutierrez, hung out on the podcast to talk about her journey. Jackie is a tireless dynamo, doing just about everything one can do in the footy space. As a freelancer, she writes her own newsletter, captures her photos, publishes magazines, roasts cof...

Welcome back to  Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes . This week, it's all about the NWSL moment. And more specifically the struggling Utah Royals . Theo sat down with Kelly Cousins , the general manager of the 2024 expansion club, to get a better idea of what is going on behind the scenes in Salt Lake City . After 10 matches, the Royals are bottom of the NWSL table with only one win. Over th...

Welcome back to  Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes . It's time to go behind the lens with photographer Georgia Soares. Having grown up in São Paulo, Brazil, she now resides in Philadelphia, PA. Get to know more about Georgia's journey into sport photography, how she's changed since she first picked up a camera, and what inspires her, both then and now. What was it like to shoot at t...

Welcome back to  Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes . This week, it's a sit-down with Amy Andrews. The Englishwoman completed five impressive years in the NCAA with Western Illinois, before then having an outstanding season in the inaugural USL-W league in 2022, where she scored 16 goals in 10 games and won the league title with Georgia Tormenta FC. In August 2023, she signed her first profe...

Welcome back to  Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes . This week, we're catching up with Juana Plata. This is the first feature that will shed a spotlight on the upcoming 2024 W Gold Cup. After five years playing NCAA with Lamar University and Texas State the Houstonite recently signed her first professional contract with Club de Futbol Monterrey in LigaMX Femenil. Since 2021, the left-footed...

Welcome back to  Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes . This week, we're looking ahead to the 2024 NWSL Draft . To do that, University of Pittsburgh forward Amanda West joined the podcast to talk about her footy journey. The 22-year-old from Ontario, Canada , has had an exceptional 5 years in the Steel City. When she enrolled, in 2019, the soccer program was ranked nearly 200th in the country....

Welcome back to  Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes . This week, we caught up with Maliah Morris, an American footballer currently playing for Western Sydney Wanderers in the women's A-League in Australia. Despite not being drafted into the NWSL after graduating from Clemson University in 2023, the flying winger fought her way onto the squad of the Orlando Pride. Eventually, she made her pro...

When you don't have a local professional football club, you have to go out into the online neighbourhood and find a community. That's what Em Woods did back in 2020 when almost overnight she became an avid women's football fan. Even though Cleveland, Ohio, isn't in the NWSL just yet she became a massive fan of the league. The ultimate casual. On top of falling in love with the beau...

What is it like to score in a 90th-minute equalizer with your first-ever shot as a professional footballer? Well on this week's  Squad Depth, Reyna Reyes tells us her story and helps answer that question.  Hosted by Theo Lloyd-Hughes, the conversation this week focuses on Reyna's journey from growing up in North Texas and making it all the way to the NWSL with the Portland Thorns. Right no...

Who is ready for a very special Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes? This week, there's not one but two guests on the podcast. Jenna and Adri Tonelli are a wife and wife duo from New York that are a huge part of the city's bustling footy scene. They talk about their origins and journeys, from being a footy fan to working in the industry. All the while also exploring what it is like to col...

Welcome back to  Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes . This week, it's a Scottish special. Theo is joined by Matt Dallinson co-creator of How's Your Touch. Matt is a writer and illustrator living in Glasgow. He is a budding part of the Scottish women's football community and media circles. He has closely covered the SWPL for nearly half a decade. One of the big topics discussed was wh...

Welcome back to  Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes . This week, we caught up with Bianca St. Georges . The defender turned winger who plays for the Chicago Red Stars in the NWSL . St. Georges opened up about riding high after the Windy City club recently was taken over by a new owner Laura Ricketts. That big shift in the direction of the team also coincided with a big 2-0 win over the Washingto...

We're back! It's been too long, but  Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes has a new interview episode with an exciting up-and-coming footballer. This week, Canadian Tianna Harris signed her first-ever professional contract with French club FC Fleury 91 in the D1 Arkema. Harris was a standout in the NCAA with Kent State and was one to watch for the 2022 College Player of the Year award. Aft...

Welcome back to  Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes . In a very special 2023 World Cup interview, Theo catches up with broadcaster and presenter Paolo del Rosario from the Philippines. Del Rosario had the privilege of being the commentator for One Sports when the Filipinas upset New Zealand and won its first-ever World Cup match. During the chat, the two talk about the pressure and pride that co...

Welcome back to  Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes . The 2023 World Cup is underway. Which means no sleep, just vibes. Although Theo won't be heading Down Under until the Quarterfinal stage, he took some time to catch up with football data analyst Arielle Dror who is out in Sydney for the World Cup. The two get stuck into the atmosphere in Australia as well as Arielle's football story....

Welcome back to  Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes . In the height of hay fever/allergy season , Theo popped in on Douglas Reyes-Ceron in Washington D.C. As one of the co-founders of the Rose Room Collective , Douglas is a prominent voice in making U.S. supporters' culture more inclusive. The two talk about showing up for marginalized fans and players. How one goes about starting a supporte...

Things are a little bit different on this week's episode of Squad Depth. The 'NWSL Halfway Hotline' has been switched on, and, in turn, 12 journalists (yes, 12!) have phoned in to talk to Theo about one team each from around the country. Each person was given just a few minutes to unpack the storylines, dive into some analysis, marvel at the MVP frontrunners, and give some predictions...

Welcome back to Squad Depth with Theo Lloyd-Hughes. This week, Theo virtually hangs out with footballer Emma Regan . The 23-year-old Canadian is currently in her first professional season in Denmark with the team HB Køge, 45 minutes South of Copenhagen. Growing up in Vancouver, Emma glided through the Canada Youth National Team ranks in the 2010s before attending the University of Texas for five s...

Welcome back to Squad Depth  with  Theo Lloyd-Hughes . This week Theo hung out with Kayla Thompson, who is currently the starting goalkeeper for Toluca Femenil  in Liga MX. But she's also so much more than that. An idiosyncratic and inspiring figure, Kayla is working on multiple avenues of developing women's soccer in the United States and around the world. Kayla started playing soccer in...

The very first episode of Squad Depth with Theo Lloyd-Hughes . To begin the series, Katelyn Best joins Theo to talk about her soccer journey. From discovering soccer spaces in Portland in the 2010s, to eventually becoming the Editorial Content Manager at Angel City FC in the NWSL . The conversation touches on the feeling of "importance" that comes from witnessing players like Tobin Heath...