The London membership reportedly signal the American defender to a world file deal for a feminine footballer.
Chelsea signed United States defender Naomi Girma from San Diego Wave in a reported world-record deal for a feminine footballer.
Girma is believed to have value Chelsea 900,000 euros ($1.1m), surpassing the world file of 685,000 euros ($718,976) paid by Bay FC for Racheal Kundananji in February 2024.
The 24-year-old was unveiled on the pitch by the Ladies’s Tremendous League champions earlier than Sunday’s recreation in opposition to Arsenal at Stamford Bridge.
“I’m so glad and actually excited to be right here. It doesn’t really feel actual,” Girma instructed Chelsea’s web site.
“There are loads of issues about Chelsea that made me wish to come right here, the tradition, the profitable mentality, workers and gamers. It’s a prime setting to be taught and develop in.”
Girma turns into Chelsea Ladies’s boss Sonia Bompastor’s first signing of the January switch window.
She was focused by Bompastor after Chelsea defender Kadeisha Buchanan suffered an anterior cruciate ligament damage that might rule her out for the remainder of the season.
The charge eclipses the earlier British file set when Chelsea signed striker Mayra Ramirez from Levante for 384,000 euros ($403,046) a 12 months in the past.
Girma performed each minute of the US’s victorious Olympic marketing campaign in Paris final 12 months and was additionally named US Soccer’s feminine participant of the 12 months in 2023.
Chelsea head of girls’s soccer Paul Inexperienced mentioned: “Naomi is a world-class defender who’s now coming into the prime years of her profession.”
