United States ahead Trinity Rodman has turn out to be the world’s highest-paid feminine footballer after signing a three-year cope with Washington Spirit, in line with her agent.
The 23-year-old, daughter of former NBA star Dennis Rodman, has been a free agent since her earlier cope with the Spirit expired on 31 December.
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However her new deal, value a reported $2m (£1.5m) a 12 months together with bonuses, will maintain Rodman with Spirit till 2028.
Her agent, Mike Senkowski, instructed ESPN the deal will make Rodman the highest-paid feminine footballer on this planet.
“It feels wonderful. I am very pleased. I am very blessed,” Rodman stated.
“I feel it is a monumental and game-changing second proper now. I am unable to even describe in phrases what it looks like.”
Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmati, winner of the Ballon d’Or in 2023, 2024 and 2025, was reportedly the highest-earning feminine participant earlier than Rodman’s deal.
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In 2025 the wage cap for the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League (NWSL) was $3.5m (£2.6m) per group.
However the NWSL board of governors authorised a brand new ‘Excessive Impression Participant’ rule in December, which allowed groups to spend as much as $1m (£760,000) over the cap on gamers that meet sure standards.
“Trinity is a generational participant, however extra importantly she represents the way forward for this membership and the way forward for ladies’s soccer,” stated Washington Spirit proprietor Michele Kang.
Rodman helped Spirit win the NWSL Championship in her debut season in 2021 and was named the NWSL Rookie of the Yr.
She has received 47 caps for the USA, scoring 11 targets since her debut in 2022.
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She scored three targets on the 2024 Paris Olympics, the place the USA received gold.
Dennis Rodman received 5 NBA Championships with the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls.
‘Spirit needed to battle to maintain Rodman’ – evaluation
The way forward for Rodman was of nice curiosity to Europe’s most profitable golf equipment with the potential to select up a world-class participant within the free market.
Serial Girls’s Tremendous League winners Chelsea had been one of many golf equipment monitoring her state of affairs and had been prepared to pounce if the answer for Rodman from the NWSL had fallen by.
It has been an unprecedented state of affairs within the US with the league and Washington Spirit battling by legalities to attempt to maintain certainly one of their greatest abilities.
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On the age of 23, Rodman isn’t one of the best participant on this planet, however she has the potential to turn out to be that and would undoubtedly be a major loss to the NWSL had they not managed to maintain her.
They’ve seen USA stars Naomi Girma and Alyssa Thompson depart for Chelsea, and in January midfielder Sam Coffey made a high-profile transfer to Manchester Metropolis.
The NWSL had led the best way for a few years in ladies’s soccer however the WSL and Mexico’s Liga MX Femenil are amongst these now spending massive cash on participant switch charges and wages.
Barcelona boast the 2 gamers who’ve scooped the previous 5 Ballon d’Or awards – Aitana Bonmati and Alexia Putellas – however the membership has monetary strains.
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US billionaire and multi-club proprietor Kang is investing closely in her golf equipment – Lyon, Washington and London Metropolis Lionesses – that means salaries are solely going to extend throughout the worldwide ladies’s soccer panorama.