Agents reveal the striker Kumba Brima trialed at the French champions in December 2025, just months after her historic UEFA Women’s Champions League debut with FC Riga as multiple elite clubs circle and a quiet revolution stirs in Sierra Leonean women’s football.
Photographs have emerged showing Sierra Leonean striker Kumba Zainab Brima training with Paris Saint-Germain Féminines last December a trial that her management team deliberately kept from the public eye until now, and one that underscores just how rapidly the Sierra Queens forward has ascended through the upper echelons of women’s club football in Europe.
The disclosure was made by Fella Sport Management and Global Soccer Management SL, the agencies jointly overseeing Brima’s career, who confirmed the PSG trial took place in December 2025 and revealed that several other elite clubs from around the world have since made inquiries and established contact over the forward’s services. No move has been announced. The agents say the right decision will be taken when the right opportunity arrives.
The delay in revealing Brima’s visit to the French capital is not oversight it is policy. The agencies operate under a firm guideline: no news of any player’s trial is published, regardless of the club involved, until a professional contract has been signed.
“When players are on trials we ought not to publish photos and news of the trials because it creates lots of pressure and unease for the players,” the management team explained in their disclosure. “Lots of distractions might happen due to the influence of social media — it is very difficult to allow them to focus, with some well-wishers meaning good and some perhaps urging them to switch.”
The approach reflects a maturity of understanding about how the landscape of modern football, and the relentless noise of social media, can derail the concentration of young players navigating high-stakes environments. Only when a player signs is the news considered worthy of celebration.
PSG Féminines are no ordinary proving ground. Paris Saint-Germain’s women’s side have been competing in the UEFA Women’s Champions League and the Arkema Première Ligue France’s top flight as one of the continent’s most ambitious and heavily invested clubs. The fact that a Sierra Leonean player was on their training ground in December 2025, assessed by their coaching staff, is a statement of considerable weight.
For those who have followed Brima’s journey, her PSG trial is the latest chapter in a story that has moved with remarkable speed. The forward spent her formative years in the Sierra Leone Women’s Premier League, turning heads with Kallon FC, where she amassed 18 goals in just nine matches and won the Woman of the Match award six times in a single campaign.
Her path to Europe began in 2024, when she undertook trials with AIK Females in Sweden and Stade Reims Féminines in France, giving her early exposure to two contrasting football environments AIK competing in the Damallsvenskan, Sweden’s top women’s division, and Stade de Reims Féminines operating in French football’s top flight. Those experiences sharpened her and prepared her for what came next.
In June 2025, Brima signed her first professional contract with FC Riga Football Club Women, a move that opened the door to European club football’s most elite competition. She did not merely participate she announced herself. Her performance in the UEFA Women’s Champions League qualifying rounds included a four-goal haul against Estonian club Flora, giving Riga a commanding lead and marking her as the first Sierra Leonean player ever to compete in the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
By the end of her debut season with Riga, Brima had scored 33 goals, contributed five goals in the UEFA Women’s Champions League qualification rounds, and been part of a squad that claimed four major trophies.
The agents behind Brima’s career were moved to break their silence in part by a tide of messages from Sierra Leoneans urging them to extend the same opportunities currently being given to players from other countries to women footballers at home. Their response was direct: more Sierra Leonean female players will be given chances through this network, with the agents noting that several have already signed professional contracts and will soon be joining their clubs from Freetown.
The work has been made possible through collaboration with Aleksandrs Cekulajevs and MNG Sports Agency, partners who have helped facilitate Brima’s European pathway and whose role in connecting Sierra Leonean talent to top-level clubs the management team publicly acknowledged.
Kumba Brima’s journey from the Sierra Leone Women’s Premier League to the corridors of PSG’s training facility is significant not simply as an individual achievement but as proof of concept for a country whose women’s football infrastructure has historically received a fraction of the investment and attention directed at the men’s game. The Sierra Queens, as the national women’s team is known, claimed their maiden WAFU Zone A Women’s Cup title in 2025 a tournament breakthrough that coincided with the same period in which Brima was making continental headlines in Latvia.
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Together, these developments suggest something is shifting. The management agencies say the next moves for Kumba Brima will be made with care no rush, no noise, and no announcement until the moment is right. Those who have watched her score in the UEFA Women’s Champions League will not need convincing that the moment will come.
