{"id":31829,"date":"2025-09-05T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chelsea-signs-alyssa-thompson-bompastor-celebrates-girma-injured\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:46:10","slug":"chelsea-signs-alyssa-thompson-bompastor-celebrates-girma-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/chelsea-signs-alyssa-thompson-bompastor-celebrates-girma-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea signs Alyssa Thompson: Bompastor celebrates, Girma injured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chelsea Strengthens: Alyssa Thompson Joins the Club<\/h2>\n\n\nChelsea coach Sonia Bompastor expressed her satisfaction with the addition of American forward Alyssa Thompson, who has signed a five-year contract with the team.\n\nThompson&#8217;s presentation took place before the opening match of the Women&#8217;s Super League (WSL) season, where Chelsea, the reigning champion, defeated Manchester City with a score of 2-1. Chelsea&#8217;s goals were scored by Aggie Beever-Jones and Maika Hamano.\n\nThompson&#8217;s signing, coming from Angel City, was finalized for a record sum for the club, just before the transfer market closed.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chelsea&#8217;s champions overcome Man City in the start of the WSL.<\/li>\n<li>Who won and lost in the WSL transfer market?<\/li>\n<li>USWNT&#8217;s Macario: Serena&#8217;s ties to Chelsea are &#8220;a win&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;We had already planned to incorporate a winger to the team before the transfer market, so it took quite a while, but we were able to bring her here and I am very happy because I know the quality she can bring to the team,&#8221; Bompastor stated in a press conference after the match.<\/p><cite>Sonia Bompastor, Chelsea coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBompastor described Thompson as a &#8220;great player&#8221; and a &#8220;great person&#8221;, and expressed her enthusiasm for working with the US national team forward.\n\nThompson was unavailable for the match, as was Naomi Girma, who joined Chelsea in January.\n\nBompastor confirmed that Girma suffered a calf injury during the week and will be evaluated next week, without specifying the recovery time.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0905%2Fr1541607_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Alyssa Thompson\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Chelsea&#8217;s new signing, Alyssa Thompson, was presented to the fans before the match against Manchester City.<\/em>\n\nDespite the absences, which also included Lucy Bronze and Lauren James, who are still recovering from injuries, Chelsea demonstrated their level after last season.\n\nBeever-Jones, who scored Chelsea&#8217;s last goal at Stamford Bridge last season, opened the scoring for the team and for the league in Friday night&#8217;s match.\n\nBompastor praised Beever-Jones, who was part of the winning England team.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Aggie had the opportunity to start the match and I think she was able to perform well, also score, which is important in her position,&#8221; said Bompastor.<\/p><cite>Sonia Bompastor, Chelsea coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBompastor revealed some key areas in which the coaches have been working with Beever-Jones, including ball possession under pressure.\n\nChelsea continues the season with a trip to Aston Villa next weekend, where Bompastastor hopes to have Thompson available.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea Strengthens: Alyssa Thompson Joins the Club Chelsea coach Sonia Bompastor expressed her satisfaction with the addition of American forward Alyssa Thompson, who has signed a five-year contract with the team. Thompson&#8217;s presentation took place before the opening match of the Women&#8217;s Super League (WSL) season, where Chelsea, the reigning champion, defeated Manchester City with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8138,8363,220,1366],"class_list":{"0":"post-31829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alyssa-thompson","9":"tag-bompastor","10":"tag-chelsea","11":"tag-wsl"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}