Women’s Super League newcomers Birmingham City have signed Canada international Marie Levasseur.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old defender joins from Montpellier after making 63 appearances across three seasons for the French club.<\/p>\n
She had previous spells at FC Fleury, Metz and ONS Oulu after representing the University of Memphis team. <\/p>\n
“I’ve always wanted to play in the WSL. I think it’s one of the best leagues nowadays on the women’s side,” said Levasseur.<\/p>\n
“I’ve heard about the project that the women’s side are doing and, talking with the coach and the staff, I feel like the team identity really speaks to me.”<\/p>\n
Levasseur has 18 caps for Canada after progressing through their youth teams and making her senior debut in 2015.<\/p>\n
She becomes Birmingham City’s fourth signing this week after the arrivals of Jade Rastocle<\/a>, Millie Turner<\/a> and Lisa Naalsund.<\/a><\/p>\n “Marie’s mentality really stood out throughout the recruitment process,” said Birmingham manager Amy Merricks.<\/p>\n “She wanted to challenge herself. She believed in what we’re building and she was excited by the opportunity to be part of this next chapter.<\/p>\n “She fits the identity we’re building and we’re excited to see the impact she’ll make.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women’s Super League newcomers Birmingham City have signed Canada international Marie Levasseur. The 29-year-old defender joins from Montpellier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}