France ahead Delphine Cascarino has joined London Metropolis Lionesses on a three-and-a-half-year deal after leaving San Diego Wave.
Cascarino agreed to terminate her contract with the Wave on Sunday – the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League membership saying that she needed to be nearer to residence.
The 28-year-old had signed for the Wave in 2024, having spent her complete senior profession as much as that time with Lyon, the place she had received the Ladies’s Champions League six occasions, along with 9 French league titles.
Cascarino has performed 86 occasions for France, serving to them attain the quarter-finals of the Olympic soccer event at Paris 2024, and the final eight once more at Euro 2025 – offering an help in every of their group stage wins over England and the Netherlands.
Cascarino stated: “England – for women and men – is the nation of soccer. It is all the time been a aim of mine to play on this league.
“I need to play within the Champions League right here at London Metropolis and win many trophies.”
London Metropolis Lionesses, taking part in within the Ladies’s Tremendous League for the primary time this season, are at the moment seventh.
Head coach Eder Maestre added: “I am so excited with this signing. I actually assume she is likely one of the most enjoyable forwards I’ve seen. She is a dribbler who can tackle gamers in one-vs-one conditions, and he or she will likely be very highly effective on the wing.
“All people can see how good she is when she performs and I would like that warrior-like and successful mentality off the pitch too, to assist us attain our targets.
“She has received six Champions Leagues, so she has the ambitions and the knowhow to win, on and off the pitch.”
