{"id":604389,"date":"2021-11-16T09:27:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=604389"},"modified":"2021-11-16T09:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T14:27:30","slug":"chelsea-women-sam-kerr-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/11\/16\/chelsea-women-sam-kerr-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Women Announce Sam Kerr Contract Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea Women have announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/09\/13\/fran-kirby-sam-kerr-partnership\/\" target=\"_self\">Sam Kerr<\/a> contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian forward has signed for a further two years, keeping her with The Blues until the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Women&#8217;s Sam Kerr Contract Extension Signed<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019re delighted to announce <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samkerr1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SamKerr1<\/a> has extended her Chelsea contract! \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kerr2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Kerr2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC Women (@ChelseaFCW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFCW\/status\/1460608602373242881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Contract Extension Came Naturally for Sam Kerr<\/h3>\n<p>Kerr, 28, has scored 39 goals in 47 appearances for the reigning Women&#8217;s Super League champions and will look to add to her impressive tally over the next few seasons.<\/p>\n<p>She has played for Australia 102 times, scoring 49 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Kerr told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/2021\/11\/16\/kerr-commits-to-chelsea0\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chelseafc.com<\/a> of her extension: &#8220;It&#8217;s really exciting. I&#8217;m really happy at the club. We&#8217;ve had good success, being at a club like Chelsea is an amazing opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time was just right, I feel really comfortable being here. I think the club gives me every opportunity to succeed as a player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t see myself going anywhere else in the world or leaving Europe, having what I have at Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time was right, honestly, I didn&#8217;t feel like I wanted to rush into anything, just like signing here the first time, it just happened naturally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hadn&#8217;t won much when I came here and after last season, I think it&#8217;s just a no-brainer for me to stay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Reason to Believe She Can Add to Her Successes With Chelsea<\/h3>\n<p>Before joining Chelsea in 2019, Kerr came with three club trophies to her name; The W-League Championship with Sydney FC, NWSL Shield with Western New York Flash and a W-League Premiership with Perth Glory.<\/p>\n<p>She has added two WSL titles and two League Cups plus a Community Shield during her stay with The Blues, who are headed for another title-chasing campaign, sitting one point shy of Jonas Eidevall&#8217;s impressive Arsenal side.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea were also runners-up in the Women&#8217;s Champions League last year &#8211; losing to Barcelona. They continue to shine in that competition again as they look to go one better under exceptional manager <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/02\/emma-hayes-chelsea-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Emma Hayes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Women general manager Paul Green said: &#8220;We are absolutely delighted that Sam has extended her deal with the club. Sam is quite simply one of the world&#8217;s best strikers and goalscorers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We look to continue to build on our recent successes, and Sam will play a big role in achieving these targets in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/11\/15\/early-mistake-chelsea-women-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">thrashed Manchester City 4-0<\/a> at the weekend and return to Champions League action on Thursday, November 18, hosting Servette, whom they put <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/11\/09\/chelsea-servette-champions-league\/\" target=\"_self\">seven goals<\/a> past last time out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"dvFWvKmITBJUfnpCybYBBA\" 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\/1353237407\" 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:'dvFWvKmITBJUfnpCybYBBA',sig:'z_ap37UE0QXF64pVK-Jixy1Wx8pAju2IMBqs62Rq7Ig=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1353237407',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>Chelsea Women have announced a Sam Kerr contract extension. The Australian forward has signed for a further two years, keeping her with The Blues until the summer of 2024. Chelsea Women&#8217;s Sam Kerr Contract Extension Signed We\u2019re delighted to announce @SamKerr1 has extended her Chelsea contract! \ud83d\ude4c #Kerr2024 \u2014 Chelsea FC Women (@ChelseaFCW) November 16, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3469,"featured_media":604390,"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":[30,11,7007,7008],"tags":[4179,8245],"class_list":["post-604389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-chelsea","category-womens-football","category-womens-super-league","tag-chelsea-women","tag-sam-kerr"],"modified_by":"Jordan Hackett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604389","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\/3469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}