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Temwa Chawinga is a record-breaker in probably the most unconventional approach.
The Kansas Metropolis Present ahead turned the highest purpose scorer in a single Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League season on Saturday when she tallied her nineteenth purpose, surpassing Sam Kerr’s mark in 2019.
That stat alongside means Chawinga has exceeded expectations in her first NWSL season. What makes her adaptation to the league much more attention-grabbing is that Chawinga’s anticipated statistics don’t replicate her precise output on the pitch. In different phrases, she shouldn’t be acting at this stage if we solely depend on the information. There may be extra to Chawinga’s achievement than meets the attention.
After spending a lot of her latest profession in China, the Malawian worldwide moved to Kansas Metropolis to supply depth and a scientific putting choice for head coach Vlatko Andonovski’s facet. Whereas her contributions had been anticipated to be sturdy, her precise output has given the Present an enormous upswing within the desk from final 12 months’s second-bottom end. The Present sit in fourth after beginning the season on a 15-game unbeaten run. Kansas Metropolis has entertained this season with scorelines of 6-3, 5-4, and 5-2, and Chawinga has been pivotal to this free-flowing goal-scoring kind from the Present.
Chawinga’s development all through the season has been clear. We’ve analyzed how Chawinga has scored her objectives and the way she’s change into probably the most harmful forwards within the NWSL.
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