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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Tue 16 Jun 16:42
Scotland captain Caroline Weir is "super excited" to have signed for Lyon, who she regards as the club with the greatest history in women`s football, after leaving Real Madrid. The 30-year-old 2025 women`s Ballon d`Or nominee has agreed a three-year contract with the French champions and Champions League runners-up.
Midfielder Weir spent four years in Madrid, scoring 63 goals in 125 appearances, and was voted Real player of the year in 2023 and 2025, as well as the Spanish league player of the year three years ago. But her side finished runners-up again to Barcelona last season and she expressed her regret on leaving that she had not been able to help them win any silverware.
Now Weir joins a club who have won their domestic league five seasons in a row, including a league and cup double last term. Lyon have also won the Champions League a record eight times, although not since 2022. They were beaten 4-0 in this season`s final by Barcelona, who had also convincingly ousted Weir`s Real in the quarter-finals.
"I was super excited to hear that Lyon were interested," she told the club website. "For me, it`s the club with the most history in the women`s game. To be part of this project, the ambition of the club was in line with what I want to achieve, so I guess it was a no-brainer in many ways to commit to this club."
The Scot, who has 121 caps for her country, began her career with Hibernian before moving to Arsenal, Bristol Academy, Liverpool, Manchester City then Real. Last year, she became the first Scottish player to be nominated for the Ballon d`Or award.
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Topic Originator: neils
Date: Tue 16 Jun 17:00
That`s an outstanding career already, and it may well be the best is still to come- what an inspiration for women and girls- in fact everyone really, I wonder how many caps she will end up with?
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Topic Originator: Bandy
Date: Tue 16 Jun 17:03
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neils, Tue 16 Jun 17:00
That`s an outstanding career already, and it may well be the best is still to come- what an inspiration for women and girls- in fact everyone really, I wonder how many caps she will end up with?
Definitely the most impressive playing CV of any footballer from Dunfermline.
Incredible for her.
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Topic Originator: ipswichpar
Date: Tue 16 Jun 17:05
Outstanding.
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Tue 16 Jun 17:10
Amongst sports people in particular, `super` seems to have replaced `very` as the adverb of emphasis.
She has certainly been adventurous in her career and hasn`t let the grass grow under her feet. She made a point of learning Spanish when she moved to Madrid. I wonder how her French is?
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Topic Originator: kelty_par
Date: Tue 16 Jun 18:27
Super is a very multilingual word - almost all European languages have super as a word - whereas very has lots of different linguistic variants (molto, muy, zehr, tres, zeer) so super is a word that translates easily in dressing rooms. You also see it a lot in cycling where the teams are also multilingual, so you get a lot of `super hard climbs`, `super technical descents`, etc.
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Tue 16 Jun 18:46
Tennis players use it a lot too.
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