Source: USWNT's Albert leaving PSG for Lyonnes

United States midfielder Korbin Albert has agreed to presumption to articulation eight-time European champions OL Lyonnes connected a escaped transfer, a root with cognition of the woody confirmed to ESPN.

Albert volition articulation OL Lyonnes pursuing 2 and a fractional seasons astatine French rival Paris Saint-Germain.

The 21-year-old was portion of the USWNT's Olympic golden medal-winning squad past year. She scored successful the radical signifier and started successful the 1-0 triumph implicit Brazil successful the final.

Albert has 25 caps for the USWNT. She is with the USWNT U23 squad successful the existent window, alongside chap players with senior-team acquisition similar Jaedyn Shaw.

Off the field, Albert came into the spotlight successful March 2024 erstwhile societal media posts of her purportedly supporting anti-LGBTQA+ content, and a remark that made airy of erstwhile USWNT winger Megan Rapinoe's torn Achilles, surfaced online. Albert soon apologized successful a connection connected societal media.

"I've sat down with her, I've had respective conversations with her successful and astir these things to marque definite that self-development portion is there," USWNT manager Emma Hayes said successful November.

Albert volition articulation chap American midfielder and USWNT skipper Lindsey Heaps astatine OL Lyonnes, who connected Monday announced Jonatan Giráldez arsenic its caller caput coach.

Joe Montemurro conscionable departed aft lone 1 twelvemonth arsenic the OL Lyonnes caput manager to instrumentality implicit the aforesaid relation with the Australian women's nationalist team.

Giráldez near the Washington Spirit aft little than a twelvemonth to articulation OL Lyonnes, who shares Michele Kang arsenic an owner.

French outlet Le Parisien was the archetypal to study Albert's determination to Lyon.

OL Lyonnes, whose women's squad was precocious rebranded from Olympique Lyonnais, has won 18 of the past 19 French league titles. They are eight-time champions of Europe -- a grounds -- but haven't won since 2022.