{"id":362949,"date":"2025-08-21T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362949\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:38:10","slug":"orlando-pride-break-womens-transfer-record-to-sign-lizbeth-ovalle-for-1-1m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362949\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Pride break women&#8217;s transfer record to sign Lizbeth Ovalle for \u00a31.1m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pride owner and chairman Mark Wilf said Ovalle &#8220;is a world-class talent and a proven winner, and her arrival in Orlando marks another step on our journey to position the Pride among the elite clubs in global women&#8217;s soccer&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ovalle began her career at Tigres in 2017 and has helped them win six league titles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She leaves the Mexican club as their all-time leading scorer with136 goals and 103 assists in 294 appearances during an eight-year stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ovalle has also won 81 international caps for Mexico, scoring 20 goals and was included in the team of the tournament at the 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup held in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, Pride signed Zambia forward Barbra Banda from Chinese club Shanghai Shengli for \u00a3581,000 &#8211; then the second most expensive transfer in women&#8217;s football. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ovalle will join a squad also featuring Brazil legend Marta, who joined them in 2017, and English goalkeeper Anna Moorhouse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea paid \u00a3900,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp8qmeleld4o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to sign USA defender Naomi Girma<\/a> from San Diego Wave in January, but that is now third on the list of most expensive women&#8217;s transfers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pride owner and chairman Mark Wilf said Ovalle &#8220;is a world-class talent and a proven winner, and her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-362949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115068686065091508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}