{"id":1974795,"date":"2025-08-22T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1974795"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:16:27","slug":"mina-tanaka-signs-contract-extension-with-utah-royals-through-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mina-tanaka-signs-contract-extension-with-utah-royals-through-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Mina Tanaka signs contract extension with Utah Royals through 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Japanese forward Mina Tanaka has signed a contract extension with the Utah Royals through 2028, the club announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tanaka is one of the Royals\u2019s top players, and has scored three goals for the club since she joined in July 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tanaka won the 2025 SheBelieves Cup with Japan, where she was also named the tournament\u2019s MVP. She scored four goals and three assists across the competition\u2019s three matches with impressive performances that led Japan to win the tournament for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before joining the Royals, Tanaka played for Kobe Leonessa in Japan\u2019s WE League.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tanaka\u2019s goalscoring record includes 213 goals over 325 total club appearances throughout her career, in addition to 33 goals in 77 appearances throughout her international career for Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.allforxi.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese forward Mina Tanaka has signed a contract extension with the Utah Royals through 2028, the club announced on Friday. Tanaka is one of the Royals\u2019s top players, and has scored three goals for the club since she joined in July 2024. Tanaka won the 2025 SheBelieves Cup with Japan, where she was also named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1974796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[352458],"class_list":["post-1974795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-nwsl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mina-Tanaka-signs-contract-extension-with-Utah-Royals-through-2028.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}