ORLANDO, Fla. (March\u00a013, 2026) –\u00a0Orlando Pride announced today that forward Barbra Banda has been removed from the Season Ending Injury list. Banda will be made available for\u00a0selection\u00a0in the Pride\u2019s upcoming\u00a0Home Opener, presented by Orlando Health, against Seattle Reign FC. That match is set to kick off at 4 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 14 at\u00a0Inter&Co\u00a0Stadium.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Banda was placed on the Season Ending Injury list in August of last season.\u00a0Fresh off her 2024 NWSL Championship MVP performance, Banda continued to\u00a0establish\u00a0herself as one of the league\u2019s premier strikers in 2025. Despite missing the second half of the season due to injury, she scored eight goals in just 16 matches, which led the Orlando Pride and ranked among the NWSL\u2019s top 10 scorers. On May 24, she became the first Pride player to record a hat trick, netting three first-half goals against the Utah Royals. That performance also marked the first hat trick by an African international in NWSL history. Banda was also named to the\u00a0FIFPRO Women\u2019s World 11 for a second\u00a0consecutive\u00a0season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (March\u00a013, 2026) –\u00a0Orlando Pride announced today that forward Barbra Banda has been removed from the Season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[72202,85,46,43,359,9380,105],"class_list":["post-337887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barbra-banda","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-news-release","tag-orlando-pride","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}