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January 27 – The deal is finished, a momentous second for the ladies’s sport. Naomi Girma has turn out to be the primary million-dollar switch in girls’s soccer historical past.
The Olympic star has signed a record-breaking four-year cope with Chelsea, transferring throughout the pond from San Diego Wave, perennial Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL) champions.
Chelsea introduced the signing with out disclosing the payment however quite a few media organisations reported the English champions have spent £900,000 ($1.1 million) on the switch. That surpasses the earlier world-record payment of $788,000 that Bay FC from the NWSL, paid to signal Zambia striker Rachael Kundananji from Madrid CFF final yr.
It’s the third time Chelsea have paid a world-record payment for a feminine participant, after Denmark ahead Pernille More durable in 2020 and Colombia ahead Mayra Ramirez final yr.
In simply three brief years, Girma, 24, has turn out to be one of many world’s greatest defenders profitable a Gold medal on the Paris Olympics final summer season. She had been underneath contract with the Wave till 2026.
Girma was introduced on the sector in entrance of Chelsea’s followers forward of Sunday’s sport in opposition to Arsenal within the WSL.
“I’m so joyful and actually excited to be right here. It doesn’t really feel actual,” she mentioned. “There are loads of issues about Chelsea that made me need to come right here — the tradition, the profitable mentality, workers and gamers. It’s a high atmosphere to study and develop in. Proper now, that’s what I’m trying to do. It was a straightforward alternative for me.”
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