Mexico international star Lizbeth Ovalle is in "advanced talks" to join an NWSL club for a world-record transfer fee in women's soccer, sources told ESPN on Monday night.
Another source told ESPN that the Orlando Pride , the league's defending champion, have finished the transfer with Liga MX's Femenil Tigres for the winger.
A source told ESPN that the fee will be $1.5M. Multiple reports emerged out of Mexico earlier on Monday saying that the deal for Ovalle could be as high as $2M.
The current transfer record is held by Canadian international Olivia Smith after signing with Arsenal last month for a fee of £1 million (currently $1.34M).
The deal would make Ovalle the first men's or women's Mexican soccer player to earn the distinction of holding a world-record transfer fee. In addi