{"id":30188,"date":"2025-09-02T10:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=30188"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:35:29","slug":"captain-sabitra-departs-for-new-zealand-to-play-in-a-league-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/captain-sabitra-departs-for-new-zealand-to-play-in-a-league-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Sabitra departs for New Zealand to play in A-League Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"357\"><strong>Kathmandu, September 2:\u00a0<\/strong>Captain of the Nepali national women\u2019s football team, Sabitra Bhandari, has departed for New Zealand to compete in the Australian top-tier women\u2019s league, the A-League Women. She left on Monday night to begin her new chapter abroad.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"359\" data-end=\"596\">Through her social media, Sabitra announced her departure, writing: \u201cStarting new journey with lots of blessings and support from Nepalese fans. Excited to be part of Wellington Phoenix and play in front of Nepali diaspora down under.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"598\" data-end=\"776\">Last month, she officially signed a two-year contract with Wellington Phoenix, a club that competes in the A-League Women.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"706\" data-end=\"838\">Wellington Phoenix, who finished ninth last season, will look to strengthen their squad with the addition of the prolific striker.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"840\" data-end=\"1131\">Bhandari previously played in Europe for EA Guingamp in France, where she scored 6 goals in 18 appearances, including a hat-trick against Saint-\u00c9tienne and a brace against Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). She remains the first Nepali footballer to score Hattrick in a top European league.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1133\" data-end=\"1362\">At the international level, she is Nepal\u2019s all-time leading scorer, with 66 goals in 60 matches. In the Indian Women\u2019s League, she scored 60 goals in just 24 matches and lifted the league title three times in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, September 2:\u00a0Captain of the Nepali national women\u2019s football team, Sabitra Bhandari, has departed for New Zealand to compete in the Australian top-tier women\u2019s league, the A-League Women. She left on Monday night to begin her new chapter abroad. Through her social media, Sabitra announced her departure, writing: \u201cStarting new journey with lots of blessings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30190,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30188\/revisions\/30190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}