South Korean women’s soccer team midfielder So-dam Lee (27) leaves Incheon Hyundai Steel in the Women’s Unemployment Football WK League and wears the NWSL Sky Blue FC uniform.
On the 5th (local time), Sky Blue FC announced the recruitment of Lee So-dam through the club’s website. The contract term is one year, and the option to extend one year is included.
Lee So-dam is the second Korean player to enter the US stage after Jeon Fall, who joined Western New York Flash in 2016 and entered the NWSL for the first time in Korea.
“It is an honor to start your NWSL career with the best players of Skyblue FC,” said Sodam Lee through the club. “I am ready to devote myself to leading Skyblue FC to the NWSL victory this fall. Come on with new colleagues. I want to train and play the game,” he said.
Lee So-dam, who took the lead in Korea’s championship by scoring a tie in the 2010 FIFA Women’s Under 17 (U-17) Women’s World Cup Final with Japan, played in 58 A-match matches in the adult national team through age-specific national teams. Scored a goal.
He debuted in the WK League at Sports Toto in 2015, and has played for Hyundai Steel from the 2017 season, helping the team to win the league’s eight consecutive wins.
Skyblue FC manager Freya Kumb said, “We are very pleased to sign Sodam Lee. He has amazing skills and excellent tactical awareness. He is a versatile and versatile enough to play in the center or in a wide area and play in depth as a defensive midfielder,” He expressed his expectation as “a player.”
Sky Blue FC will start the pre-season of the 2021 season on the 1st of the following month in local time.
NWSL will hold the cup competition this April and the regular league will start in mid-May. Union