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On August 2, Louisville Athletic Football Club announced a major transfer on their official channels: they successfully signed former Paris Saint-Germain player Wang Frost from Lyon Times Football Club. The transfer was accomplished through a deal with Lyon Times, for which Athletic Louisville paid a $30,000 transfer fee and a 2023 nwsl fourth round draft pick. Wang Frost will sign a new contract with Athletic Louisville to begin her new journey in the United States.
It's worth noting that Louisville Athletic's No. 10, nadia nadim, who played alongside Wang Frost at Paris Saint-Germain in France, posted old photos of the two of them on social media in anticipation of her former teammate's arrival.
At this moment, Wang Frost is with the Chinese women's national soccer team in San Francisco, U.S. for a month of overseas training. July 31, China's women's soccer team in San Francisco Golden Gate Park Keiser Stadium in the training of the first warm-up game, with a score of 6-2 beat the San Francisco Nighthawks, to obtain the opening of the overseas training. Jin Kun scored two solo goals, Lu Yueyun through a penalty kick, and Lou Jiahui, Yuan Cong and Li Ying also scored.
If Wang Frost decides to join Louisville Athletic, it will be the third time in her career that she has stayed overseas, while the Chinese women's soccer team will have seven overseas players.
Going into August 1, the AFC officially announced the arrangements for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers as well as the 2027 Asian Cup qualifiers.
With the number of seats for the 2026 FIFA World Cup increasing to 48, the Asian qualifiers will also produce eight direct qualification spots and one intercontinental play-off spot. The third round of qualifying, once known as the Round of 12, will be upgraded to a Round of 18. The 18 teams will be divided into three groups of six teams each to play a home-and-away round-robin tournament, with the top two teams from each group totaling six teams advancing directly to the World Cup.
