Chelsea signal Japan midfielder Matsukubo

have signed Japan worldwide Manaka Matsukubo on a five-year contract.

The 21-year-old midfielder has joined the membership from Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League (NWSL) aspect North Carolina Braveness in the USA.

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Matsukubo scored 19 targets and offered 10 assists in 58 matches for North Carolina and was named NWSL midfielder of the yr in 2025.

“I am so excited to be becoming a member of Chelsea, a membership with lots of historical past,” she mentioned.

“The membership has a robust historical past of profitable trophies and has carried out so nicely on the high of the sport, so I could not go up this chance.

“I wish to assist proceed this membership’s custom of profitable trophies for years to return.”

[BBC]

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