Canadian-Jamaican ‘Serial winner’ Buchanan joins Chelsea’s ladies’s workforce

English Ladies’s Tremendous League (WSL) facet Chelsea has confirmed the signing of Canadian defender Kadeisha Buchanan, hailed as a “serial winner”, whose dad and mom hail from Jamaica.

Toronto-born Buchanan, 26, has agreed to a three-year cope with the Blues, who accomplished the league and Ladies’s FA Cup double within the 2021-22 season, having left Lyon this summer time after 5 years in France.

The five-time Champions League winner turned down gives from a number of different WSL golf equipment to maneuver to Kingsmeadow. Particulars of her new contract weren’t disclosed.

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On arrival in London, Buchanan – whose father was born in St Thomas and her mom was initially from Montego Bay – stated: ‘I’m coming to Chelsea with the identical ambition I all the time had – win trophies and turn out to be the perfect on this planet.

“The membership has all the pieces to ensure that us to compete in each competitors and it’s time to deliver a Champions League trophy to London.

“I’m hoping to deliver my expertise to the workforce and proceed on the profitable pathway that the membership has been on for the previous seasons,” she stated.

“I can’t wait to affix my new teammates and the teaching employees on this journey.”

Chelsea supervisor Emma Hayes added: “Kadeisha is a serial winner on the prime of her sport and I’ve little question we’re signing a world-class participant who has confirmed herself on the world stage.

“She goes to deliver a high quality to our group and together with her sensible character and character, we predict she will likely be actually favored inside the dressing room. We sit up for welcoming Kadeisha this summer time.”

Throughout her time with Lyon, Buchanan additionally gained 5 league titles and three home cups.

She was a part of the Canadian squad that claimed gold ultimately summer time’s Olympic Video games in Tokyo, in addition to bronze in 2016.

Reggae Lady Drew Spence, a 29-year-old midfielder, left Chelsea on the finish of the season, having joined the membership in 2009. One other Reggae Lady, striker Khadija Shaw, 25, performs for WSL rivals Manchester Metropolis.