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Naomi Girma was nominated for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year grant successful 2024
Chelsea person completed the signing of USA defender Naomi Girma for a satellite grounds fee.
The 24-year-old has signed a declaration until summertime 2029 aft the Women's Super League leaders this week agreed to wage San Diego Wave astir £900,000.
It exceeds the £685,000 Bay FC paid for Zambia's Racheal Kundananji past February.
Chelsea acceptable the British transportation grounds erstwhile they signed Mayra Ramirez for £384,000 successful January 2024.
Girma is Chelsea's archetypal signing of the January transportation model aft they fought disconnected contention from Lyon.
Chelsea made her a precedence people aft losing defender Kadeisha Buchanan to a season-ending genu injury.
In 2023 Girma helped San Diego triumph the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) Shield and was named US Soccer's pistillate subordinate of the year.
She was portion of the USA broadside that won golden astatine the 2024 Olympics successful Paris.
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