Orlando Satisfaction have made Lizbeth Ovalle the costliest signing in ladies’s soccer historical past by signing the Mexico winger from Tigres UANL in a deal price $1.5m (£1.1m).
The switch breaks the document set by Arsenal solely final month when the Champions League holders in a £1m deal.
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Ovalle, 25, has signed a two-year take care of the NWSL champions with a mutual choice to increase the contract by one other yr.
“I am coming with the clear goal of successful titles and leaving a mark with the membership,” Ovalle stated.
“I am prepared to offer it my all and assist the Satisfaction proceed to be a number one workforce.”
Satisfaction proprietor and chairman Mark Wilf stated Ovalle “is a world-class expertise and a confirmed winner, and her arrival in Orlando marks one other step on our journey to place the Satisfaction among the many elite golf equipment in international ladies’s soccer”.
Ovalle started her profession at Tigres in 2017 and has helped them win six league titles and leaves the Mexican membership as their all-time main scorer.
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She scored 136 objectives and supplied 103 assists in 294 appearances for the membership in the course of the eight-year keep.
Ovalle has additionally gained 81 worldwide caps for Mexico, scoring 20 objectives and was included within the workforce of the event on the 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup held in the US.
Chelsea paying £900,000 from San Diego Wave in January is now third on the checklist of costliest ladies’s transfers.