U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Crew star has grow to be the primary million-dollar feminine soccer participant after English membership Chelsea paid a report switch payment and signed the American defender to a long-term contract.
British media reported the membership agreed to pay roughly 900,000 kilos ($1.12 million) to amass Girma, who was below contract with the NWSL’s San Diego Wave till 2026.
“There are numerous issues about Chelsea that made me wish to come right here – the tradition, the successful mentality, workers and gamers. It is a prime surroundings to study and develop in,” Girma, 24, stated in a membership assertion.
Chelsea introduced the signing on Sunday earlier than its Girls’s Tremendous League sport towards Arsenal.
Girma is taken into account to be one of many world’s finest defenders, taking part in each minute of the 2024 Paris Olympic match the place the Individuals gained gold with a 1-0 victory over Brazil within the closing.
The Wave chosen Girma with the No. 1 general decide of the 2022 NWSL draft and she or he went on to win each the league’s prime defender and rookie of the yr awards that season.