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Manchester United Girls have added their first summer season signing of the window.
Want for reinforcement
The Pink Devils produced a robust season final 12 months, ending third and reaching the qualification stage for the Champions League.
They are going to tackle PSV Eindhoven on the twenty seventh August to safe their progress within the match.
To compete domestically and overseas, the Girls’s staff will intention so as to add much more gifted gamers to their thrilling squad over the following month.
Formally signed
Marc Skinner’s aspect have made their first transfer by bringing in Julia Zigiotti Olme.
The club’s official site reported “Manchester United are delighted to announce the signing of Sweden worldwide Julia Zigiotti Olme on a two-year contract, with the choice to increase for one 12 months.”
The web site provides that “the midfielder joins United from Bayern Munich, after successful the Frauen-Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal final season.”
Zigiotti confronted off in opposition to United within the Girls’s World Sevens match in Might and in addition in opposition to some Pink Devils in Sweden’s defeat to England within the Euros quarter-finals earlier this month.
Certainly one of Europe’s most interesting
Commenting on the transfer the Sweden worldwide said, “I’m so glad to be right here and so glad to get began and to hitch this household. I’ve been watching Manchester United within the final couple of years and, having seen what they’ve been doing, I’m very impressed.”
She additionally added that she believes the staff matches her type and that she already feels a part of the United household.
Matt Johnson, Manchester United director of ladies’s soccer, mentioned: “Julia is one among Europe’s finest defensive midfielders who brings a successful mentality and expertise of competing within the high competitions.”
He added that followers will get pleasure from watching the midfielder who has an “insatiable work-rate, capability to win possession again for her staff and a inventive passing vary.”
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— Manchester United Girls (@ManUtdWomen) July 31, 2025
European and Tremendous League expertise
The 27-year-old brings a wealth of experience, having performed European soccer with BK Hacken and Bayern Munich.
She additionally represented Brighton and Hove Albion 65 occasions within the Girls’s Tremendous League over the course of three seasons.
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