Official: Julia Zigiotti Olme indicators for Man United Ladies

Manchester United Ladies have added their first summer time 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’ll tackle PSV Eindhoven on the twenty seventh August to safe their progress within the event.

To compete domestically and overseas, the Ladies’s staff will purpose so as to add much more gifted gamers to their thrilling squad over the subsequent month.

Formally signed

Marc Skinner’s aspect have made their first transfer by bringing in Julia Zigiotti Olme.

The membership’s official website 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 towards United within the Ladies’s World Sevens event in Might and likewise towards some Pink Devils in Sweden’s defeat to England within the Euros quarter-finals earlier this month.

Considered one of Europe’s best

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 model and that she already feels a part of the United household.

Matt Johnson, Manchester United director of ladies’s soccer, stated: “Julia is one in every of 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, means to win possession again for her staff and a inventive passing vary.”

European and Tremendous League expertise

The 27-year-old brings a wealth of expertise, having performed European soccer with BK Hacken and Bayern Munich.

She additionally represented Brighton and Hove Albion 65 instances within the Ladies’s Tremendous League over the course of three seasons.

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