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Sam Kerr 'stoked' after breaking Chelsea's WSL goalscoring record during club's win

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Australia striker Sam Kerr claimed ⁠another record when she scored her 64th goal for Chelsea on Sunday to become the club's leading goalscorer in the Women's Super League (WSL).

[p]The 32-year-old ‌rose to head home a ‌Niamh Charles cross in the 13th minute of [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/chelsea/Q7Hu2UDD/"]Chelsea[/a]'s [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/soccer/chelsea-Q7Hu2UDD/leicester-dWUIlGLF/?mid=AByxXK0U"]3-1 ‌win[/a] over [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/leicester/dWUIlGLF/"]Leicester City[/a] ⁠at King ‌Power stadium, moving ahead of [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/kirby-francesca/zNcLdsrM/"]Fran ​Kirby[/a] on the list of goalscorers for the ​eight-times WSL champions.[/p][p]"[b]I'm absolutely stoked to break ... the record, ⁠it feels ​amazing to be in the same category as some of those players,[/b]" [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/kerr-samantha/8YuNOAak/"]Kerr[/a] said ‌in a message to fans on the club's social media.[/p][p]"[b]But I'm absolutely honoured and it's been amazing to score 64 goals in front of all of you - let's finish off the season strong.[/b]"[/p][embed guid="a3f686fc-4fb0-43c0-9ca6-78a67837fc32" url="https://x.com/ChelseaFCW/status/2050937211294494851?s=20" social-type="twitter" /][p]Kerr ‌is Australia's all time leading ​goalscorer with 75 in ‌139 internationals and she won the WSL's golden boot in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons with tallies of ⁠21 and ⁠20 goals.[/p]

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