Zambia ahead Barbra Banda has signed for Orlando Pleasure within the second-most costly ladies’s switch in historical past.
The 23-year-old joins the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League (NWSL) membership for $740,000 (£581,000) from Chinese language membership Shanghai Shengli.
Bay FC paid a world-record $860,000 (£685,000) for Zambia team-mate Racheal Kundananji final month.
Banda joins Pleasure on a four-year deal and can turn into one of many highest-paid gamers in america’ NWSL.
Pleasure additionally negotiated a sell-on clause for any future switch of Banda, who scored 41 targets in 52 appearances for Shanghai Shengli.
“I’m very excited to affix Orlando Pleasure. It is a terrific membership and I like what they’re constructing,” stated Banda.
“The NWSL is among the best and strongest leagues on this planet so it’s extremely humbling to get an opportunity to play in it.
“I am unable to wait to fulfill my new team-mates and begin working with them. I hope to assist the workforce to do nice issues and win a whole lot of trophies collectively.”
The ahead grew to become the primary feminine participant to rating successive hat-tricks on the Olympic Video games towards the Netherlands and China in 2021.
Pleasure proprietor and chairman Mark Wilf stated: “It has at all times been our imaginative and prescient to construct Orlando Pleasure into an NWSL Championship contender and we imagine funding on this planet’s finest gamers is a prerequisite for fulfillment.
“Barbra Banda brings a brand new degree of technical talent, physicality and tempo to our assault and he or she is an thrilling and entertaining addition to our roster. Our followers have a lot to look ahead to as we put together to kick-off the common season.”
