{"id":31914,"date":"2025-09-06T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chelsea-women-signs-alyssa-thompson-bompastor-celebrates-girma-injured\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:10:08","slug":"chelsea-women-signs-alyssa-thompson-bompastor-celebrates-girma-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/chelsea-women-signs-alyssa-thompson-bompastor-celebrates-girma-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Women signs Alyssa Thompson: Bompastor celebrates, Girma injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alyssa Thompson Strengthens Chelsea: Sonia Bompastor Expresses Enthusiasm<\/h2>\nChelsea&#8217;s technical director, Sonia Bompastor, has expressed her satisfaction with the incorporation of American forward Alyssa Thompson, who has signed a five-year contract with the club.\nThompson&#8217;s presentation took place before the first match of the Women&#8217;s Super League (WSL) season, where Chelsea, the current champion, defeated Manchester City with a score of 2-1.\nThompson&#8217;s signing by Chelsea involved a record outlay for the club, coming from Angel City.\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chelsea, the champion, surpasses Man City in the start of the WSL.<\/li>\n<li>Analysis of the winners and losers of the WSL transfer market.<\/li>\n<li>Serena&#8217;s connection with Chelsea is a triumph.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nBompastor highlighted that Thompson&#8217;s arrival to the team was a previous objective in the transfer market. &#8220;I am very happy because I know the quality she can bring to the team,&#8221; stated the coach in a press conference after the match.\nThe coach described Thompson as a &#8220;great player&#8221; and a &#8220;great person&#8221;, showing her enthusiasm for working with the American forward.\nThompson was unavailable for the match, as was Naomi Girma, who joined Chelsea in January for a record sum at the time.\nBompastor confirmed that Girma suffered a calf injury during the week and will be evaluated next week. No estimated timeframe or the severity of the injury was provided.\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=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n<em>Chelsea&#8217;s new signing, Alyssa Thompson, was presented to the fans before the match against Manchester City.<\/em>\nDespite the absences, including Lucy Bronze and Lauren James, who are still recovering from injuries, Chelsea continued their good performance.\nAggie Beever-Jones, who scored Chelsea&#8217;s last goal at Stamford Bridge last season, opened the scoring for Chelsea and the league on Friday night.\nBompastor praised Beever-Jones, highlighting her performance in the match. &#8220;Aggie had the opportunity to start the match and I think she performed well, she also scored, which is important in her position,&#8221; she commented.\nBompastor revealed that work has been done in key areas with Beever-Jones, such as ball possession under pressure.\nChelsea will continue the season with a match against Aston Villa next weekend, where the coach hopes to have Thompson.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyssa Thompson Strengthens Chelsea: Sonia Bompastor Expresses Enthusiasm Chelsea&#8217;s technical director, Sonia Bompastor, has expressed her satisfaction with the incorporation of American forward Alyssa Thompson, who has signed a five-year contract with the club. Thompson&#8217;s presentation took place before the first match of the Women&#8217;s Super League (WSL) season, where Chelsea, the current champion, defeated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8138,8363,220,1366],"class_list":{"0":"post-31914","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\/31914","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=31914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}