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Matildas goalkeeper Teagan Micah has signed for Liverpool, changing into the most recent Australian to affix the English Girls’s Tremendous League.
Micah, a member of Australia’s Girls’s World Cup squad, joins the Reds from Swedish Membership FC Rosengard.
She just lately overcame a six-month-long battle with concussions however beforehand starred for Australia on the Tokyo Olympics and has constructed her profession within the US faculty system with UCLA.
It means all three Australian goalkeepers: Micah, Mackenzie Arnold (West Ham) and Lydia Williams (Brighton and Hove Albion) are in England.
“It’s Liverpool Soccer Membership, so it’s huge and I’m simply actually excited for this subsequent chapter in my profession,” Micah stated in an announcement.
“For me, it was additionally about entering into the WSL – I do know it’s turning into the perfect league on the planet. To have the ability to compete in opposition to the perfect gamers on the planet is de facto necessary for myself, for my profession.
“I hope I will help take us to the following degree and hopefully cement us as a Champions League crew within the years to return.”
After the World Cup, Micah will hyperlink up with Liverpool, which is aiming to raised final season’s seventh-placed end.
“We really feel we’re getting Teagan at an excellent time – on the peak of her profession – and we’re wanting ahead to working along with her,” supervisor Matt Beard stated in an announcement.
“The truth that she’s received titles, performed for large golf equipment, performed in Champions League video games. She’s skilled various things even at a younger age for a goalkeeper – that have shall be invaluable and hopefully we’ll be capable to draw on that all through the course of the season.”
-AAP