Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League (NWSL) facet Gotham FC has confirmed the signing of Brazil worldwide Geyse on mortgage from Manchester United.
on March 3 that Gotham was in superior talks with United over the switch. She has now joined for the 2025 season with an choice to make the transfer everlasting.
“I’m very completely happy and excited to hitch Gotham FC for this season,” Geyse mentioned, through Gotham’s web site. “I selected Gotham FC as a result of they’ve a successful profile and loads of ambition to win titles. I can’t wait to put on this jersey and benefit from the subject with my new teammates. Let’s go Gotham!”
Geyse joined United from Barcelona in August 2023 for a club-record charge. She made 21 appearances for Marc Skinner’s facet as they completed fifth within the Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL).
The 26-year-old had performed 9 video games this season, beginning six. Geyse went on compassionate go away in January, which she spent in Brazil following the demise of her brother in a automobile accident, earlier than returning to the facet instead on March 2 in a 2-0 WSL win over Leicester Metropolis.
After the Leicester match, Geyse posted a press release on Instagram describing an setting during which “interior peace is troublesome to seek out.”
“Staying in a spot the place we don’t really feel completely happy is an agonising and lonely feeling. Every single day appears heavier, and the straightforward truth of being there turns into a burden,” the ahead wrote. “The setting, which ought to be welcoming, turns into a subject of discomfort, the place interior peace is troublesome to seek out. When we’re not in tune with what surrounds us, the world round us loses its color and power.”
After the publish, Skinner confirmed that Gotham was in discussions to signal Geyse and mentioned United was working to discover a answer and be sure that “Geyse is completely sorted and has all of the care that she wants.”
He additionally pressured that the membership had been offering Geyse with well-being assist.
Geyse joins a Gotham facet that’s seeking to recapture the NWSL championship. After successful the title in 2023, they reached the semi-finals of the playoffs the next yr, the place they have been defeated on penalties by eventual champions the Washington Spirit.
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