Portland Thorns midfielder Lindsey Horan has joined Lyon on mortgage until June 2023, the NWSL club has announced.
Horan has also signed a agreement extension with the Thorns via to the 2025 season.
The 27-yr-old, who became lately named the 2021 U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year, will return to France after playing for PSG between 2012 and 2016.
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“I’d want to thank the membership for permitting me to move on mortgage and feature this opportunity to play in France,” Horan said in a Thorns press launch.
“Being a Thorn is one of the most superb things I’ve gotten a danger to experience throughout my time as a professional soccer participant. While I am excited for this new enjoy, I take outstanding delight in being a Portland Thorn. I am pleased with this team’s achievement and I truly thank the club for making this manifest.”
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Thorns fashionable manager Karina LeBlanc added: “When Lindsey signed her long-term settlement with the Thorns in 2020 she got here to us to discuss pursuing an opportunity to play in Europe, and we've commemorated that request. We are pleased she has signed an extension with the Thorns to offset this loan spell and we will’t wait to welcome her again to Portland after her time abroad.”
Horan makes her return to Europe after turning into a fixture for the U.S. Girls's country wide crew in latest years, culminating in her first U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year award closing 12 months. She will soar right in to the combination for Lyon, which has its subsequent fit on January 29 in a huge Coupe de France Round of 16 towards PSG. She could characteristic then, or in early February in opposition to Bordeaux in league play.
