Laila Harbert has joined National Women\u2019s Soccer League side San Diego Wave in a permanent transfer.<\/p>\n
Laila joined our academy at the age of nine, working her way up through the age groups before signing her first professional contract with us in January 2025.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old defensive midfielder made her first-team debut in May 2024, coming off the bench in our pre-season match against A-League All-Stars Women in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
In addition to her development with our youth teams, during her time with us Laila gained valuable experience of senior football through loan spells at Watford, Southampton, Portland Thorns and Everton.<\/p>\n
Laila is an experienced England youth player, with nearly 50 appearances for the Young Lionesses across the age groups. Notably, she captained England\u2019s under-17s at both the European Championships and the World Cup in 2024.<\/p>\n
Everyone at Arsenal Football Club thanks Laila for her contribution during her time with us and we wish her well for her next chapter in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laila Harbert has joined National Women\u2019s Soccer League side San Diego Wave in a permanent transfer. Laila joined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-415482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}