U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Group star has develop into the primary million-dollar feminine soccer participant after English membership Chelsea paid a document 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 accumulate Girma, who was underneath contract with the NWSL’s San Diego Wave till 2026.
“There are loads of issues about Chelsea that made me need to come right here – the tradition, the profitable mentality, workers and gamers. It is a high setting to be taught and develop in,” Girma, 24, stated in a membership assertion.
Chelsea introduced the signing on Sunday earlier than its Ladies’s Tremendous League sport in opposition to Arsenal.
Girma is taken into account to be one of many world’s finest defenders, enjoying each minute of the 2024 Paris Olympic event the place the People received gold with a 1-0 victory over Brazil within the closing.
The Wave chosen Girma with the No. 1 total decide of the 2022 NWSL draft and he or she went on to win each the league’s high defender and rookie of the 12 months awards that season.