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Zenatha signs with Seville

The 26-year-old Namibian international striker Zenatha Coleman has decided to stay in Spain’s Primera Division with Sevilla FC for the upcoming season

Zenatha moved to Spanish Primera Iberdrola 3 years ago following two success-laden years with the Lithuanian champions Gintra-Universitetas. The exciting forward firstly played half-season with Zaragoza before being snapped up by Valencia CF for the following two seasons. She played a total of 47 league matches and scored 11 goals in Valencia shirt.

She is a reference for her country and has experience in the UEFA Women’s Champions League, a competition in which she scored six goals in seven matches in 2016-17 season for Gintra. As a key member of Namibian Women’s National Team, the Brave Gladiator has already amassed 49 caps scoring 20 goals for her country, with whom she recently played the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games qualifiers.

Zenatha is a fast, technical, goal-oriented player who can perform both in the centre of the attack and on the wings. She becomes the first player represented by LTA Agency to sign a contract with a historic Spanish club – Sevilla FC.

LTA Agency wish Zenatha a lot of success at her new club.

Australian Matildas midfielder Aivi Luik has joined Spanish side Sevilla FC on a one-year deal

The well-travelled midfielder returned to Spain’s Liga Iberdrola after a fifth Westfield W-League title won with Melbourne City FC earlier this year. Aivi’s first Spanish adventure was with Levante UD in the 2018/19 season. That season, she had played 26 league matches for the Valencia-based outfit before leaving for Norway’s Avaldsnes from where she returned to Melbourne City.

The 35-year-old playmaker brings with her a vast international experience to her new club as she has played in many different top clubs in Australia, the United States and Europe.

As one of Australian football’s most decorated players with five Westfield W-League Championship medals, Luik has also clinched a League title in Denmark, a Danish Cup Winner medal, three League and Cup titles in the USA, and was a runner-up of Norway’s Women’s Cup.

The Westfield Matildas veteran has earned 25 caps with Australia so far, helping her home country to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She played in the 2019 World Cup in France, won 2019 FFA Cup of Nations, as well as the AFC Asian Cup back in 2010.

Mery (María Ruiz), our Spanish representative accompanied Aivi in Sevilla while she was passing her medical tests and signing the contract.

LTA Agency wish Aivi a good season in Spain and the best of luck at her new club.

LTA Agency have arranged the transfer of the 30-year-old Australian international defender Laura Brock to EA Guingamp of French top flight (Division 1 Feminine) where she will join Malian international Aïssata Traoré represented by our agency

Laura Brock, better known by her maiden name – Alleway, joins Guingamp on a one-year deal from her second stint at Melbourne Victory. Laura has spent most of her professional career in her home country’s top division, W-League. She made her W-League debut with Melbourne Victory, moved to Brisbane Roar two years later, then played for Melbourne City before returning to Melbourne Victory for 2017/18 season.

The three-time W-League champion with Brisbane Roar (2010/11) and Melbourne City (2015/16, 2016/17), Laura has also spent time abroad with former English FAWSL side Notts County (2012) and American NWSL side the Orlando Pride (2016, 2017).

Laura is the Australian Women’s National Team (the Matildas) veteran, for whom she has earned 60 caps and played an important part in major international tournaments. She has represented her country at the 2011 and 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cups. She also played at the Olympic Games in Rio and won the FFA Cup of Nations in 2019.

Her new team Guingamp are still in the running for the 2019/20 Coupe de France féminine. They are set to meet Olympique Lyonnais in the semi-finals on the 9th of August before starting the new League season in September.

LTA Agency wish Laura a lot of success at her new club.

Danish international striker Caroline Møller Hansen has inked her first contract abroad with an Italian side FC Internazionale Milano

Caroline comes after spending five very good seasons with a top club in her home country – Fortuna Hjørring. At just 21 years of age, she is moving to Serie A with three Danish Championships and two Cup titles won with Fortuna under her belt.

The sharp-shooter contributed a lot to the trophies won by Fortuna Hjørring during her period with them. She has been the club’s best goal scorer in 2019/20 and the 2018/19 seasons, and with 14 goals scored, she was the Elitedivisionen second best scorer in both years.

The outstanding striker has also performed well in the most recent UEFA Women’s Champions League campaign this past season, scoring 3 goals in 4 appearances.

Nominated for Denmark Women’s League Player of the Year Award 2019, Caroline has played on all the youth national teams of her country and has already earned two senior caps for Denmark in March 2020 at the Algarve Cup in Portugal.

This contract is a historic signing for both Caroline and the agency as it is Caroline’s first challenge abroad, she becomes the first Danish female player at Inter, and it is the first time that LTA Agency have concluded a deal with the historic club. By now, we have been very pleased as the agency to be able to count on cooperation with both Milan clubs (AC Milan and Inter), the current Serie A champions – Juventus, and a number of other well-respected clubs in Italy, which makes this country very important for LTA and the players represented by the agency.

LTA Agency wish Caroline all the best in this new step of her professional career.

The International South African defender, Nothando Vilakazi has signed a contract with Spanish outfit EDF Logroño for the 2020-2021 season

The Banyana Banyana defender comes from a top division club in her country, TUT Pretoria with which she has won the last Sasol Women’s League.

Prior to TUT Pretoria, she spent a stint with Lithuanian champions Gintra Universitetas that she joined on April 2019 from South Africa’s Palace Super Falcons.

She bagged four titles of Sasol League National Championship and played in the biggest club football competition for women, as she reached the preliminary round of the UEFA Women’s Champions League with Gintra Universitetas.

The 32-year-old left-back counts 139 caps with eight goals for South African Women’s National Team “Banyana Banyana” that she has represented in many high international competitions like the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 as well as in London in 2012. She also won three COSAFA Women’s Championship of 2008, 2017 and 2018, the Baltic Women’s League of 2019, was runners up in the 2018 and 2012 African Women’s Championship.

Nothando is an experienced, fast, disciplined football player with good technique, so it is no surprise that she continues with her career in sunny Spain.

LTA Agency wish good luck and a lot of success to Nothando in EDF Logroño.

La brillante delantera costamarfileña ha fichado por EDF Logroño hasta 2022

Rebecca, empezó su carrera futbolística a los 20 años jugando exclusivamente para clubes en su país natal. Durante la temporada 2013 – 2014 la perla africana formó parte del club costamarfileño Onza Sœurs de Gagnoa, de ahí en 2014 dio un salto y se incorporó al fútbol europeo fichando contrato con el club de Lituania – Gintra Universitetas FC.

Su estancia en Lituania no fue larga, ya que durante la temporada 2014 – 2015 Rebecca de nuevo regresa a su anterior equipo costamarfileño.

Antes de unirse a las filas de Pyrgos Limassol (Barcelona FA), Rebecca prueba su suerte en FF Chênois Geneve suizo, para finalmente unirse al equipo chipriota para la campaña 2018 – 2019.

Ahora, la delantera polivalente, ambidiestra, desbordante, veloz, desequilibrante y con una enorme capacidad para asistir en el último pase, pone rumbo a La Rioja donde se unirá al tridente atacante en el que podemos ver otras jugadoras representadas por LTA Agency – Jade Boho y Olga García.

La talentosa jugadora ha ganado varios títulos a lo largo de su camino. Ella ha sido dos veces campeona nacional de la Costa de Marfil – 2011/2012, 2013/14, así mismo ha triunfado en la Copa de Costa de Marfil en 2011.Entre sus títulos internacionales podemos destacar Ganadora de la Primera División de Chipre 2017 – 2018 y Campeona de Lituania – 2015. Rebecca es titular indiscutible con la Selección Absoluta de Costa de Marfil, ha sido 31 veces internacional y disputó el Mundial de 2015 en Canadá.

LTA Agency felicita a Rebecca por su gran éxito y le desea mucha suerte con EDF Logroño.

L’attaquante internationale de Côte d’Ivoire Elloh Amon Rebecca a signé un contrat de deux ans avec le club de Liga Iberdrola EDF Logroño

Elloh rejoint le club espagnol en provenance de la première division chypriote où elle a joué pendant 4 ans avec Pyrgos Limassol – ancien Barcelona FA. Elle contribue énormément pour l’obtention de leur tout premier titre de championne et à leur qualification à la Ligue des Champions pour la première fois en 2017/18. La saison suivante, elle aide son club à remporter deux autres titres: la Coupe de Chypre et la Super Coupe du pays. Elloh est la deuxième meilleure buteuse de son club la saison 2017/18 et elle a été nommé successivement parmi les 11 meilleures du championnat de l’année les saisons 2017/18 et 2018/19.

La joueuse de 25 ans est passée par Gintra Universitetas en Lituanie et FF Chênois Genève en Suisse avant de rejoindre Pyrgos Limassol en 2016.

Elle a été appelée à plus de 30 reprises en équipe nationale de Côte d’Ivoire pour laquelle elle a déjà inscrit huit buts et a joué les éliminatoires des Jeux olympiques de Tokyo 2020. Elle a représenté son pays à leur première participation historique au Mondial 2015 au Canada.

Elloh a huit participations et deux buts à la Ligue des Champions avec deux de ses précédents clubs Gintra Universitetas et Pyrgos Limassol.

L’ivoirienne est la troisième joueuse représentée par LTA Agency qui signe avec EDF Logroño ce mois après la défenseure sud-africaine Nothando Vilakazi et l’attaquante espagnole Olga Garcia.

LTA Agency souhaite à Elloh bonne chance en Espagne.

La gardienne internationale française Emmeline Mainguy s’est engagée avec Napoli en Italie

Après des passages à Dijon, Guingamp, Olympique Lyonnais (France) et Santa Teresa, Extremadura (Espagne) la gardienne de but de 32 ans vas découvrir un troisième championnat.

Emmeline rejoint le club Italien nouvellement promu en Serie A en provenance de Dijon.

Arrivée à Dijon en 2017 en provenance de Santa Teresa, elle garde les buts du club pendant trois saisons. Emmeline aide vaillamment le club à accéder à la D1 Féminine pour la première fois de son histoire la saison 2017/18.

La joueuse de talent a déjà un beau palmarès: championne de France et vainqueur de la Coupe de France  2007/08, la même saison demi finaliste de la Ligue des champions féminine de l’UEFA avec l’Olympique lyonnais, Emmeline est également considérée comme une internationale française.  Elle a déjà été sélectionnée en équipe de France junior des moins de 17 ans (4 sélections) et 19 ans (4 sélections). Elle a aussi été appelée pour la première fois de sa carrière par le staff des Bleues en mars 2015 à l’occasion du tournoi de l’Algarve, au Portugal.

LTA Agency souhaite à Emmeline bonne chance à Napoli.

La portera inglesa, Chelsea Ashurst, ha renovado contrato con el club español Sporting de Huelva por una temporada

Nacida en Normanton, Inglaterra, Chelsea tiene una larga experiencia en el fútbol español y ha desarrollado toda su carrera deportiva en España defendiendo las porterías de los clubes como el Málaga C.F. y el FC Barcelona en la prestigiosa Liga Iberdrola. A sus 30 años ella ha sido ganadora de la Primera División Española dos veces (2013/14, 2014/15) y una vez ha triunfado en la Copa de la Reina (2014).

Chelsea es un miembro muy importante de su equipo actual ya que es considerada por sus entrenadores y compañeras como una guardameta con mucha experiencia y habilidades que puede ser el pilar en muchos de los partidos.

Con su reciente renovación de contrato, cumplirá su tercera temporada con el Sporting de Huelva convirtiéndose  en una de las veteranas que puede aportar toda su experiencia a su club y a sus compañeras de equipo.

LTA felicita a Chelsea por su logro y le desea mucha suerte con el club Sporting de Huelva en la temporada que viene.

LTA Agency are pleased to announce the addition of Christa Kgamphe from South Africa as a new member of the LTA team

Christa comes to LTA well-prepared after earning a number of professional degrees from the University of Johannesburg – BA with Honors in Sport Management, BTech in Business Administration, and NDs in Marketing and Sport Management.

Currently a lecturer in Sports Events, Sport & Leisure Management at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), she has had extensive work experience in the area of sports since 2009 when she became a part of the University of Johannesburg Football Club as a student assistant. This was followed by a number of roles as a fitness, netball and basketball coach, trainer, nutritionist, team manager, and sport management facilitator in various sport and educational institutions in South Africa.

Some of the highlights of Christa’s professional career thus far include being Head of Basketball at St Mary’s Waverley School in 2016 and leading South Africa U17 Women’s National Team as an administrator and team masseuse at the U17 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Uruguay in 2018.

Christa holds various football coaching licenses and certificates from the South African Football Association (SAFA) and the Confederation of African Football (CAF). As a multi-sport athlete, Christa has excelled in football, netball, and basketball.

Being a highly qualified, motivated, and experienced professional in the field of sport management, Christa will help LTA to further develop in the region of South Africa and will specifically work on holistically managing careers of the best female football talents represented by the agency in her home country.

LTA welcome Christa to the team and wish her a lot of success in her new endeavor.