French striker Kadidiatou Diani, D1’s top scorer, has signed a four-year contract with Lyon, the Rhone club announced on Wednesday.
The tricolor player, currently present in Australia to compete in the World Cup with the France team, announced at the beginning of the month that she was going to leave PSG after six years in the capital without mentioning her destination.
“Olympique Lyonnais is pleased to announce the arrival of the French international, top scorer and best FFF player in the last French D1 Arkema championship, Kadidiatou Diani, for four seasons, i.e. until June 30, 2027”, indicated OL on its website.
The 28-year-old Diani netted 17 league goals in 2022-23 before sustaining a collarbone injury in March. However, she managed to recover for the World Cup where she scored three goals on Wednesday against Panama in the last match of the 1st round of Les Bleues, victorious 6-3 and qualified for the 8th finals.
Trained at Juvisy, which became Paris FC, the player joined PSG in 2017 with whom she found the net 91 times, in all competitions, and won a French Championship (2021) and two French Cups (2018). , 2022).
“I had already been at PSG for six years, for me it was time to turn the page, I lived some very good years, (…) in any case I do not regret the years that I have been able to spend with the PSG”, she had declared on July 20.
