{"id":260344,"date":"2026-01-23T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/260344\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:05:08","slug":"rodman-becomes-highest-paid-female-footballer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/260344\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodman becomes highest paid female footballer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity Rodman has become the highest-paid female footballer in the world, according to her agent, after signing a new three-year deal with Washington Spirit that is reportedly worth over \u20ac1.7million per year.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old United States international, who is the daughter of five-time NBA champion Dennis Rodman, had been a free agent since her previous deal with Spirit expired at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Her agent Mike Senkowski of Upper 90 Sports Group told both CBS and ESPN the forward has now extended her stay at a record price said to include bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>Spirit did not disclose a figure, but described the deal as &#8220;one of the most significant deals in NWSL history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0014e808-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nTrinity Rodman is the daughter of five-time NBA champion Dennis Rodman<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve made the DMV my home and the Spirit my family and I knew this was where I wanted to enter the next chapter of my career,&#8221; said Rodman in a statement. &#8220;I\u2019m proud of what we\u2019ve built since my rookie season and I\u2019m excited about where this club is headed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re chasing championships and raising the standard and I can\u2019t wait to keep doing that with my team-mates and the best fans in the NWSL.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trinity Rodman has become the highest-paid female footballer in the world, according to her agent, after signing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-260344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}