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The North Carolina Courage transferred 2025 NWSL Midfielder of the Year Manaka Matsukubo to Chelsea FC on Friday.
The 21-year-old Japan worldwide signed a five-year contract with the English membership, which competes within the Women’s Super League.
‘I’m so excited to be becoming a member of Chelsea, a membership with a whole lot of historical past,’ Matsukubo stated in a Chelsea press launch. ‘As a small little one, I adopted Chelsea as a result of it’s a membership everybody on the planet is aware of about.
‘The membership has a robust historical past of profitable trophies and has finished so properly on the high of the sport, so I could not go up this chance, and I need to assist proceed this membership’s custom of profitable trophies for years to return.’
Matsukubo joined the Courage on mortgage in 2023. She tallied 19 targets and 10 assists in 58 matches with North Carolina, together with 11 targets final season and 5 targets by means of 9 matches in 2026.
–Field Level Media