{"id":582744,"date":"2021-02-05T12:32:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=582744"},"modified":"2021-02-05T12:32:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:32:17","slug":"brighton-hove-albion-complete-signing-emma-koivisto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/02\/05\/brighton-hove-albion-complete-signing-emma-koivisto\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton &#038; Hove Albion Complete Signing of Emma Koivisto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/premier-league\/brighton-and-hove-albion\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/a> have bolstered their FA Women\u2019s Super League squad with the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/4658c710\/Emma-Koivisto?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emma Koivisto<\/a> from Gothenburg FC.<\/p>\n<h2>Brighton &amp; Hove Albion Sign Emma Koivisto<\/h2>\n<h3>Koivisto Brings Lots of Experience to Brighton<\/h3>\n<p>The Finland international received international clearance and signed an 18-month contract with Brighton, joining her compatriot <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a28c8e7c\/Nora-Heroum?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nora Heroum<\/a> in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Hope Powell<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightonandhovealbion.com\/news\/2015727\/koivisto-makes-albion-move\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> told brightonandhovealbion.com<\/a> said: \u201cWe&#8217;re delighted to welcome Emma to Brighton. She has lots of experience of top-level football in Europe and America and we think she will add a lot to the squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is versatile, so she can play in different positions, is good on the ball and tactically aware. I&#8217;ve been really impressed with how she has settled into the squad this week and we look forward to seeing her in a Brighton shirt soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Top-Flight Titles in Sweden and Finland<\/h3>\n<p>Koivisto arrives on the English south coast after winning a top-flight title in Sweden with Gothenburg, as well as for FC Honka in Finland.<\/p>\n<p>She had a spell playing college football in the United States for Florida State Seminoles. Koivisto has represented Finland from under-16 level up to the seniors, where she has 58 caps, scoring twice.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/premier-league\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> Are Brighton\u2019s Next Opponents<\/h3>\n<p>Brighton are back in Women\u2019s Super League action on Sunday when travel to reigning champions and current league leaders Chelsea on Sunday, kick-off 14.00 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>Powell\u2019s team will be looking to arrest a poor run of form that has seen the side lose six of their last seven league games \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/31\/bristol-city-secure-first-womens-super-league-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">most recently losing 3-0 to bottom-of-the-table Bristol City in January 30.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their opponents extended their <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/31\/bristol-city-secure-first-womens-super-league-victory\/\" target=\"_self\">unbeaten record<\/a> in the Women\u2019s Super League to 33 games with a 4-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur on January 31.<\/p>\n<p>They also progressed to the Continental League Cup Final <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/02\/03\/bristol-city-and-chelsea-to-meet-in-the-continental-league-cup-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">with a 6-0 win over West Ham United on February 3.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"B-LTJstaRqdjd6Ov5St51g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1291611831\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'B-LTJstaRqdjd6Ov5St51g',sig:'9kNIeVZ3MiokIKuIvixp9K8o6qu5_ZuIsOpYLzKmeao=',w:'594px',h:'422px',items:'1291611831',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton &amp; Hove Albion have bolstered their FA Women\u2019s Super League squad with the signing of Emma Koivisto from Gothenburg FC. Brighton &amp; Hove Albion Sign Emma Koivisto Koivisto Brings Lots of Experience to Brighton The Finland international received international clearance and signed an 18-month contract with Brighton, joining her compatriot Nora Heroum in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3766,"featured_media":582773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1265,28,7007,7008],"tags":[8151,46,8145,8150,8146,8144,1052,136],"class_list":["post-582744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-transfers","category-womens-football","category-womens-super-league","tag-brighton-hove-albion-women","tag-chelsea","tag-emma-koivisto","tag-emma-koivisto-brighton-hove-albion","tag-hope-powell","tag-nora-heroum","tag-womens-super-league","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Declan Wiseman, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}