Lily Yohannes is exhibiting off her prodigious expertise within the 2025-26 UEFA Girls’s Champions League. The 18-year-old scored a outstanding aim from close to the midway line in a 3-0 victory for OL Lyonnes on Matchday 2 on Wednesday towards St. Pölten. The younger American signed with the French powerhouse in July and is quickly making her mark with the membership, scoring within the home league and now the Europe’s most prestigious competitors.
Her transfer to eight-time Champions League winners Lyon indicators the subsequent step in her growth, and her distant aim comes simply hours after she was just lately named to the USWNT October roster by Emma Hayes.
Yohannes additionally scored in her membership debut in a win towards Marseille in September. Her rise within the girls’s sport is not any secret as she’s no stranger to the European stage. As simply 16 years previous, she grew to become the youngest participant to ever begin a UWCL group stage match throughout her time with Ajax, making her additionally the youngest American to ever play within the match. Her creativity and poise within the midfield earned her the Johan Cruyff Expertise of the Yr award.
OL head coach Jonatan Giraldez is already using the younger participant in a beginning capability, and {the teenager} has a vivid future forward of her. OL Lyonnes will play their subsequent Champions League in November and can face the Frauen Bundesliga crew Wolfsburg at residence in Groupama Stadium. All UWCL will be see Paramount+.
