Zambian striker Barbra Banda lifted the Orlando Delight to their first NWSL Championship title on Saturday, beating the Washington Spirit 1-0 in Kansas Metropolis.
The Delight had just one prior journey to the playoffs however appeared like post-season veterans as Banda slipped one previous two-time NWSL goalkeeper of the 12 months Aubrey Kingsbury within the thirty seventh minute and a stout Orlando protection extinguished Washington’s probabilities.
The Spirit misplaced all 4 of their common season conferences with Orlando during the last two years and had not cracked the code this time round, and their frantic makes an attempt late within the match went unrewarded.
The sport capped a blockbuster 12 months for the top-flight North American girls’s league, which noticed document attendance with greater than 2m followers coming via the turnstiles throughout the common season.
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