Banda acquired by the Orlando Delight for second-highest switch payment in ladies's soccer

The Orlando Delight of the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League have acquired Zambian ahead Barbra Banda for a club-record switch payment.

Banda signed a four-year take care of the Delight, who paid $740,000 to Chinese language Ladies’s Tremendous League membership Shanghai Shengli FC, the group stated Thursday evening.

It’s the second-highest switch payment in ladies’s soccer, after NWSL growth group Bay FC paid Actual Madrid $788,000 for Zambia ahead Racheal Kundananji final month.

Banda grew to become a breakout worldwide star after changing into the primary participant to have back-to-back hat tips in an Olympics, scoring three objectives in opposition to each the Netherlands and China on the Tokyo Video games.

“Barbra is a natural-born aim scorer and one of the vital bodily imposing forwards on this planet,” Delight common supervisor Haley Carter stated in an announcement. “Turning solely 24 years outdated this month, we’ve got each confidence she will probably be an affect participant in our assault for years to come back.”

Banda had 16 objectives and 5 assists with Shanghai Shengli final 12 months. In 2020, she gained the Chinese language league’s Golden Boot with 18 objectives in 13 matches.

Banda, who made her worldwide debut in 2016, scored in Zambia’s first-ever Ladies’s World Cup victory, a 3-1 group stage win over Costa Rica final summer time in New Zealand. It was the 1,000th aim scored within the match’s historical past.

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