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One of many U.S. girls’s nationwide group’s rising skills has secured a transfer to WSL giants Chelsea.
Naomi Girma has joined Chelsea in a everlasting deal from NWSL membership San Diego Wave, each golf equipment introduced Sunday. The 24-year-old Girma signed a four-and-a-half 12 months contract which can run till June 2029.
“I’m so pleased and actually excited to be right here. It doesn’t really feel actual,” Girma stated in a membership interview Sunday. “There are quite a lot of issues about Chelsea that made me need to come right here – the tradition, the profitable mentality, employees and gamers. It’s a prime setting to be taught and develop in.
“Proper now, that’s what I’m trying to do,” she added. “It was a simple selection for me.”
Girma has loved a speedy rise in her membership and worldwide profession. After profitable a Nationwide Championship at Stanford College in 2019, she was chosen No. 1 general by San Diego in 2022.
Girma received NWSL Rookie of the 12 months and Defender of the 12 months in successive seasons and helped San Diego with the NWSL Protect in 2023.
On the worldwide degree, Girma beforehand received the U.S. Soccer Younger Feminine of the 12 months and Feminine of the 12 months awards. She helped the USWNT win the Gold Medal on the 2024 Summer time Olympics, serving as the one discipline participant to play each minute of the competitors.
She was named to The Greatest FIFA Girls’s 11 in 2024 and the IFFHS Girls’s World Workforce throughout the identical 12 months.
Girma will now be a part of USWNT teammate Catarina Macario at Chelsea. Chelsea sits 9 factors clear on the prime of the WSL desk following Sunday’s 1-0 London Derby win over Arsenal.
