According to the official news from the London City Lionesses Club of the English Women's Championship League, Chinese women's football international Shen Mengyu has joined the team. The 23-year-old Shen Mengyu will sign a three-year contract with the London City Lioness, after the success of the Scottish Women's Football League, and in the context of the trend of Chinese players returning to China, Shen Mengyu chose to continue to stay abroad and continue to pursue the dream of staying abroad. Although he only joined the Championship, playing in the game is the most important thing, just like Wang Shuang and Zhang Linyan did not have many opportunities in the Women's Super League, Shen Mengyu's choice was right.
Shen Mengyu went to the British Isles to stay in the ocean at the age of 20 and spent three very successful seasons in the Scottish league, winning four trophies. With Zhang Linyan, Tang Jiali and other women's football internationals returning to China after studying abroad, Shen Mengyu did not give up, even if she went to the second division of England, she had to continue. Shen Mengyu will wear the number 7 shirt, which means she will be an absolute workhorse in the team, and as a midfielder, her attacking ability is quite good.
The London City Lioness is also a club with a relatively high background, a club that is completely controlled and managed by a female owner, founded by Diane Carligan in 2019 and acquired by Michelle Kang, a Korean United States female owner, in 2023. The latter has a very strong background, she is not only the owner of the Lioness in London City, but also the owner of Lyon, the top European women's football giant, and has shares in the Washington Spirit Women's Football Team and the Baltimore Golden Orioles Women's Football Team, and is a complete women's football tycoon. His desire is for women to dominate on and off the field. With the support of such a strong background, Shen Mengyu's new owner may be about to surpass.
Another feature of this club is that it is the only club in the two levels of the women's football league in England to operate independently. In general, in the English football league system, women's football clubs are attached to men's football clubs, such as Arsenal, Manchester City, and Chelsea, which have men's and women's football respectively, and men's football does not have English lions, so this club is a complete women's football team. This is like most Chinese women's Super League teams, and there is no connection between the women's football team and the men's football team in China.
I hope Shen Mengyu can perform well, she was originally a core player at Celtic, and she hopes to be the core here to help the team enter the Premier League. Shen Mengyu also made her own statement after joining the team, she is proud to join this all-female team, and she is eager to lead the game and help the team get promoted to the Super League with the support of an ambitious owner. At the same time, improving yourself and exercising yourself can bring improvement to the women's national team.