Link: https://www.allforxi.com/nwsl/14119/takeaways-from-catarina-macarios-san-diego-wave-introductory-press-conference

San Diego Wave FC officially announced the signing of USWNT forward and former Chelsea forward, Catarina Macario to a five-year contract through the 2030 season.

The news was reported by Sportico a week ago that Macario would receive the largest value contract in women’s’ soccer history earning $8 million over five seasons. Macario was under contract through the summer, but the Wave paid a reported $300,000 transfer fee to bring her to the Wave sooner.

The Wave rent part of their facilities from an ecnl club?

Macario moved to San Diego at 12 years old and played at the Del Mar Polo Fields, the home of her youth club San Diego Surf. The Surf now rent out a portion of their fields to the Wave for their training facilities where Macario will now play, but Macario said it now looks a little bit different.

“It’s surreal, the first day that I walked out and was actually in the wave facility and I got to see, the fields that I used to play on, but I think back in the day we used to have horses, so it’s changed a little bit, you know, it’s gotten a little bit more bougie,” Macario said. “Yeah, but it’s it’s unreal. I’m still processing everything, but yeah, I think it just, it means the absolute world to me. I never would have imagined, I guess, that, 12 year old Cat, not knowing how to speak English, being super scared, would one day come back, get to represent her hometown team.”