Official: Nigerian goalscoring sensation Kanu completes record transfer to Racing Louisville FC

The Nigerian worldwide loved a spectacular 12 months in Mexico and has earned the largest switch deal between Liga MX-NWSL

Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League campaigners Racing Louisville have accomplished the signing of Tremendous Falcons attacker Uchenna Kanu from Mexican membership Tigres Femenil.

Kanu spent solely a 12 months with Tigres after becoming a member of from Swedish giants Linköpings FC in January 2022.

However the 25-year-old attacker was an on the spot hit in Mexico scoring 23 targets in 39 video games, main the Amazons to 2 titles – the Apertura 2022 and the Copa Amazonas.

And impressed by Kanu’s exploits on the Sultana del Norte, Racing Louisville have moved swiftly to deliver the Nigerian striker to the Lynn Household Stadium.

Racing Louisville have agreed to pay $150,000 to Tigres Femenil for Kanu, in a deal that may be a document switch between a Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League membership and a Liga MX membership.

The American facet will even pay an extra $30,000 to the five-time Liga MX champions if Kanu scores 12 or extra targets this season.

Within the settlement which is a player-plus-cash deal, Louisville will even ship 22-year-old teenager Riley Parker to Tigres on mortgage for the season.

It’s a candy return to the USA for Kanu who excelled throughout her faculty years on the Southeastern Fireplace in Florida.

The Abia-born attacker additionally spent two years at Pensacola, additionally in Florida, earlier than leaving for Spain’s Sevilla in 2020.