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Manchester United captain Katie Zelem celebrated her a hundred and fiftieth look for United on Saturday in opposition to Arsenal.
Though the end result didn’t go in United’s favour, it was nonetheless a trigger for celebration because the Oldham-born midfielder turned simply the second participant to succeed in that milestone after Ella Toone.
Zelem spent her youth days at United’s centre of excellence earlier than leaving for Liverpool in 2013 attributable to United not having a senior crew.
She then went to Juventus for his or her inaugural season earlier than returning to United in 2018, when the ladies’s crew was arrange underneath supervisor Casey Stoney.
She turned captain in 2019 after Alex Greenwood left and has been an integral a part of the squad ever since.
She led the crew out as United ladies performed at Outdated Trafford for the primary time, a second she treasured as a lifelong United fan.
She additionally captained the facet at Wembley Stadium of their first ever FA Cup closing.
After qualifying for the Champions League for the primary time, Zelem once more ticked one thing off her bucket listing as she captained the facet in opposition to PSG, house and away, of their first style of European soccer.
Zelem wasn’t the one participant to be celebrating a milestone achievement as Hayley Ladd got here off the bench within the seventieth minute to mark her one centesimal look for the membership, turning into the sixth participant to succeed in a century of appearances.
Ladd joined the facet in 2019 for his or her first season within the WSL and was voted participant of the 12 months that 12 months.
Though the Welsh worldwide has been out and in of the squad this 12 months, she has been there for the crew when it mattered, scoring three targets in 9 video games.
United can be again in motion within the ladies’s Tremendous League on March third when the face West Ham away.
