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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.

 

Italian international striker Deborah Salvatori Rinaldi has penned a new one – year deal with AC Milan of Italian top-flight (Serie A)

The 28-year-old moved to Milan in the summer of 2019 from another Italian top club, Florentia.

Deborah scored three goals in nine outings last season, before that the season was curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. She is a série A’ experienced striker as she played most of her career in Italy and only spent one season in Spain with RCD Espanyol.

The double winner of the 2016/17 Italian championship and Cup, the Italian striker made her first senior National Team appearance in a 6-0 win against Georgia in the UEFA Women’s Championship qualifiers in November 2019.

LTA Agency wish Deborah Salvatori Rinaldi good luck for the next season.

Following successful spells in England and Germany, the Swedish international goalkeeper, Hedvig Lindahl has decided to continue her brilliant football career in Spain with Atlético de Madrid through to the summer of 2022

The recently-crowned Bundesliga champion and German Cup winner with VfL Wolfsburg, Hedvig brings her incredible international experience to the Spanish powerhouse and three-time League champions Atlético de Madrid.

Prior to VfL Wolfsburg, Hedvig played 5 years with Chelsea FC in England. She spent five seasons in the FA Women’s Super League winning two League Championships and two FA Cup titles in the process. She also won cups in her native country while playing for Linköpings FC (Svenska Cupen 2006, 2008). She has qualified to the ongoing quarterfinals of the 2019/20 UEFA Women’s Champions League with VfL Wolfsburg and reached the semi-final stage of the same competition on two occasions with Chelsea in 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons.

Hedvig is Sweden’s (Female and Male) most capped goalkeeper with 169 appearances for her country. She has featured in four FIFA World Cups and four Olympic Games and also in multiples European Championships Finals.

The star’s impressive performances between the goals have won her numerous awards. She was named Swedish Women’s Goalkeeper of the Year on eight occasions and the Best Female Footballer in her country on two occasions. With her national team, Hedvig won a silver medal and two bronze medals at FIFA World Cups including the most recent World Cup in France 2019, two bronze medals in European Championships, as well as one Olympic silver medal in the most recent Olympic Games staged in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016.

LTA Agency wish Hedvig Lindahl good luck and even more trophies in Spain.

The 32-year-old defender, Line Røddik Hansen has made history with FC Nordsjælland as they won their first Cup title in Denmark

Line won her second Cup trophy in her home country after helping FC Nordsjælland clinch the 2020 Danish Cup. Following Saturday’s 1-0 win over Thy-Thisted Q in the final, Line’s side has secured their first-ever title in the club’s history.

The central defender joined FC Nordsjælland in 2019 from Ajax in the Netherland’s top division. With her huge international experience, she has helped the newly-promoted club in Elitedivisionen to end the league in the third position and to become Denmark’s 2020 Cup Winner.

It is one more trophy in her extensive list of titles already won in Spain, France, Sweden, Netherlands, and Denmark. Line won her first Danish Cup in 2007 while playing with Brøndby IF.

LTA Agency congratulates Line on this remarkable achievement and wishes her even more success in the future.

Olga García Pérez, delantera de la selección española de clase y habilidades excepcionales, representada por LTA Agency, ha firmado contrato con el club español EDF Logroño

Olga se incorpora al EDF Logroño después de pasar dos temporadas en el Atlético de Madrid.

Goleadora de 28 años, Olga empezó su carrera futbolística en clubes de su localidad catalana. En la temporada (2001-2002) ella jugó para el club La Penya Blac i Brava La Roca y en la temporada (2002-2004) ella se unió a las filas de FC Mataró. El gran éxito para la futbolista vino cuando en 2004 se incorpora a la cantera del FC Barcelona, entonces Olga tenía solamente 12 años de edad. En este mismo club ella dio el salto al primer equipo del club, convirtiéndose en una goleadora top marcando 25 goles en la temporada 2010/11 y ganando la prestigiosa Primera División en 2011/12 y 2012/13.

En junio 2013, ella firmó contrato con otro club español, el Levante UD donde estuvo dos temporadas y en 2015 otra vez regresó al FC Barcelona vistiendo la camiseta blaugrana hasta el año 2018. En el 2018 ella ficha por el Atlético de Madrid, ganando varios títulos junto con sus compañeras en uno de los clubes más exitosos de la Primera Iberdrola incluso su tercero campeonato de liga personal en la temporada 2018/19.

Ahora Olga pondrá su talento y experiencia a disposición del EDF Logroño para asegurar más victorias y trofeos al equipo riojano que terminó en séptimo lugar en la Primera Iberdrola en una temporada cortada por la pandemia y actualmente se encuentra en las semifinales de la Copa de la Reina 2019/2020.

LTA Agency felicita a Olga por su éxito y le desea mucha suerte en su carrera de aquí en adelante en su nuevo equipo.

Fortuna Hjørring won the 2019/20 Elitedivisionen with Caroline Møller Hansen’s penalty scored in the last League match drawn against Brøndby 1:1

The 21-year-old Danish striker has been an integrant part of that victory. She netted 14 times in 19 league games played to help grab the club’s 11th league title. The towering attacker counts this trophy as her third championship title in Denmark after winning in 2017/18 and 2015/16.

Caroline comes from IK Skovbakken’s youth ranks and began her professional career with Fortuna Hjørring in 2015, She has earned her 2 senior first international caps in the recent Algarve cup.

LTA Agency congratulate Caroline Møller on this achievement and wish her all the best in her future career.

Linda Sembrant and Sofie Junge Pedersen have won the 2019/20 Serie A championship with Juventus

Both players appeared in every league match before the pandemic. The club played 16 games and did not register any defeat. Defender Linda scored twice and midfielder Sofie three times to contribute to Juventus’third successive trophy.

Before Italy, both players bagged their first championship trophy in Sweden, winning respectively for each one Linda and Sofie, the Damallsvenskan in 2012 and 2015.

The Sweden international Linda(33) joined the Serie A top-flight in 2019 from Montpellier in French Division 1. She is France 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup bronze Medal and the 2016 Olympic Games Silver Medal winner.

It is Sofie’s second spell in Italy with the club and her second successive Serie A title. The 28-year-old Danish international reached the 2017 UEFA Women’s Euro final.

LTA Agency congratulate Sembrant and Sofie on this achievement.

Romanian international striker, Laura Roxana Rus (also known as Lala) has inked a contract with the Romanian club Fortuna Becicherecu Mic

Lala, 32, started playing football quite late at the age of 16 after switching from handball. In the beginning, she played for the Romanian club Pandurii Târgu Jiu (2004-2007). Impressing with her talent, hard work and determination only after a year she was called up by the Romanian National Team in 2005.

In 2007 she signed her first contract abroad in Spain with Sporting Huelva where she spent four years. Following that, Lala has amassed an impressive record of top clubs in different countries for which she had played: Cyprus (Apollon Limassol), Denmark (Fortuna Hjørring), South Korea (Suwon FMC and Icheon Daekyo WFC), Italy (Sassuolo and Hellas Verona) and Belgium (RSCA Anderlecht).

She joined RSCA Anderlecht in 2019 and went on to win two trophies in one season: the Belgian Women’s Super League 2019/20 and BeNe Cup 2020. Lala played 15 matches and scored 13 goals for the Belgian powerhouse.

The experienced striker holds many other titles: Cyprus League, Cup and Super Cup winner, Romanian Cup winner, and Denmark League champion. She also won the best goal scorer titles in Romania, Cyprus, South Korean WK-League, and most notably the UEFA Women’s Champions League (2012/13).

One of the images of the Romanian National Team over the last ten years, Lala is returning home to continue to play and to serve as a role model for many young aspiring female players who would like to get involved in football.

LTA Agency wish Lala the best of luck at Fortuna Becicherecu Mic.

La portera rumana, Andreea Maria Părăluță, ha ampliado su contrato con Levante UD para dos temporadas más

Andreea, de 25 años, empezó su carrera de fútbol profesional en clubes en su país nativo.

En su larga e interesante carrera futbolística se pueden destacar unos de los clubes más importantes en Rumanía como por ejemplo C.S.S Târgoviște (2009–2010) y A.S.A Târgu Mureș (2010–2016).

En 2011 se unió a la Selección Rumana Nacional y se convirtió en una pieza muy importante defendiendo la portería del equipo nacional en competiciones internacionales.

Después de pasar varias temporadas en Rumanía, en las temporadas 2016-2017 y 2017 – 2018, ella pasó a competir en el campeonato español, defendiendo la portería de uno de los grandes clubes españoles el Atlético de Madrid, donde en ambas temporadas el club  fue campeón de La Liga Iberdrola.

Andreea dejó el Atlético de Madrid en  la temporada 2018/19, donde jugaba con el número 13, y se unió a las filas del club español Levante UD. Hasta ahora Andreea cuenta con 24 partidos jugados en campeonato regular y 1 partido jugado en la Copa.

LTA Agency felicita a Andreea por su éxito y le desea mucha suerte en su futura carrera.

El club español que milita en Primera Iberdrola, EDF Logroño, ha renovado el contrato a una de las jugadoras más excepcionales representada por LTA Agency: Jade Bojo Sayo

Los riojanos decidieron prolongar el contrato con la delantera para dos temporadas más.
Jade, de 33 años, es una delantera española con mucha experiencia que jugó para el equipo de Guinea Ecuatorial y que empezó su carrera futbolística en equipos como AD Orcasitas, AD Torrejón, Rayo Vallecano, Atlético de Madrid, Reading, el Bristol, ganando tres campeonatos, una Copa de la Reina y jugando en la Liga de Campeones de UEFA.

Inició su carrera en España en el año 2004 cuando ganó el Europeo – Sub 19 con España, y ese mismo año participó también en la Copa del Mundo Sub- 19 donde marcó dos goles.

Jade llegó al EDF Logroño en la temporada 2018/2019, procedente del Madrid CFF, y desde entonces se ha convertido en una pieza fundamental para su equipo, generando siempre peligro y ayudando con sus goles a conseguir numerosas victorias con su club.

En esta temporada, Jade, volvió a convertirse en la máxima artillera de las riojanas, con 12 goles en la Primera Iberdrola.
Gracias a su gran juego, Jade, hizo historia al llegar al EDF Logroño por primera vez a unas semifinales de la Copa de la Reina en la temporada 2019/20.

Esto no es una sorpresa puesto que el gol decisivo en la seminal de la Copa de la Reina fue obra de la capitana del club – Jade, una de las delanteras españolas más destacables, ídolo de la afición y parte de la élite del fútbol español.

LTA Agency felicita a Jade por su éxito y le deseа mucha suerte de aquí en adelante.