Chelsea have prolonged the contract of promising younger defender Cerys Brown.
The London membership exercised the choice forward of the brand new season after {the teenager} penned her first skilled deal 12 months in the past. Brown joined Chelsea‘s academy set-up in 2021 and, now 19, she is impressing for each membership and nation.
She made her first crew debut in an FA Cup sport towards Studying, however at youth degree she has received accolades similar to Beneath-18 Participant of the Season. Brown spent the second half of 2023/24 on mortgage at Watford in a bid to proceed her senior growth within the second tier of the ladies’s sport.
Brown has represented the Lionesses at youth degree, most not too long ago for the under-19s. The UEFA European Ladies’s Beneath-19 Championship takes place in Lithuania subsequent month and the full-back can be hopeful of securing a spot within the squad.
This comes as the newest piece of contract enterprise accomplished by Chelsea after Sam Kerr signed a brand new deal with the membership earlier this month. The retention of not simply first-team starters, however younger and promising expertise, will support new boss Sonia Bompastor as she begins her new function as head coach. She succeeds the long-serving Emma Hayes, who departed in Could.
