Official! Sporting sign 28-year-old striker from Turkey | OneFootball

It’s official: Ana Dias is the latest addition to the Sporting women’s football team, having signed a contract with the Alvalade club until 2028. Upon her arrival, the striker said she was motivated to begin this new stage of her career.

“I know the responsibility that comes with wearing the Sporting shirt and feeling what Sporting means, but I arrive with a great desire and full willingness to start working right away and to help Sporting win the titles it deserves,” she said. The 28-year-old player is returning to Portugal, which she left in 2020, having played in Russia (Zenit), the United States of America (Portland), Mexico (Tigres) and, most recently, Turkey (Fomget Gençlik).

During her time at Zenit, she won two national league titles, in 2022 and 2023, while also standing out individually by being named to the Russian league’s best eleven in 2023, the season in which she was the competition’s top scorer and best player.

The forward also made her mark in Mexican football with Tigres, where she won the Golden Boot in the first edition of the CONCACAF Champions Cup: “Returning to Portugal is fantastic in itself. That experience abroad, in different international competitions and contexts that required adapting to distinct styles of play, allowed me to develop a different competitive mentality that I now want to bring to Sporting.”

Ana Dias described herself as a player capable of offering the team several attacking options: “I’m a very competitive, combative, experienced and versatile forward who likes to play between the lines, in behind, and has an eye for goal. Professionalism is completely different from what it was six years ago, the conditions are too, as is the players’ physical readiness, as they are extremely well prepared. Fans? Come support us, be confident; Sporting is its fans and, obviously, for us it is essential to feel that support. We guarantee hard work, dedication and commitment to represent Sporting in the best way possible,” she concluded.

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