Manchester Metropolis have accomplished the signing of Brazil ahead from North Carolina Braveness.
Kerolin, 25, has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal that runs till 2028.
She joins as a free agent following the conclusion of her North Carolina contract on the finish of the 2024 Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League season.
“I’m so excited to be right here,” Kerolin mentioned. “There have been a variety of the explanation why I selected Metropolis and a kind of was to play within the .
“I believe the gamers (within the WSL) are actually technical and the crew is compact. I need to be higher, to be taught various things and to come back right here to be challenged, additionally play in opposition to the defenders who will play in opposition to the defenders who will play within the subsequent World Cup in Brazil in 2027.”
Kerolin spent three seasons at North Carolina and was named the 2023 NWSL Most Useful Participant (MVP) after serving to the membership win a second successive Problem Cup. The Brazil worldwide scored 10 targets in 19 appearances through the 2023 season.
She missed nearly all of the 2024 NWSL marketing campaign after sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear in October 2023, ending the 2024 season with one purpose in six appearances.
She has been capped 45 instances at worldwide stage and was a part of the Brazil aspect that gained silver on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Kerolin turns into Metropolis’s third January signing following the additions of Rebecca Knaak and Aemu Oyama.
She provides additional depth to a ahead line that already contains Lauren Hemp, Vivianne Miedema, Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw, Mary Fowler, Aoba Fujino and Chloe Kelly — though the latter’s future is unsure.
Metropolis’ Girls’s director of soccer Therese Sjogran added: “Kerolin is inventive, fast, and can add much more firepower to our ahead line. Now we have a shared ambition to be the very best not solely in England but additionally in Europe, and we’re delighted to have been in a position to deliver her to Manchester.”
Metropolis return to motion in opposition to Manchester United within the quarter-finals on Wednesday.
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