LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nadia Nadim is back in action for Racing Louisville FC. The club announced the star forward had been activated off the season-ending injury list, making her available for Friday’s match against the Kansas City Current.

Racing Louisville said Nadim’s return to fitness comes roughly 10 months after surgery to repair a torn ACL, which she suffered in a late September match at Portland. The 35-year-old has been rehabilitating in Louisville since preseason training camp started. Nadim recently rejoined full team training.

The accomplished player has 103 professional goals over a 17-year career and has won league titles with the National Women’s Soccer League’s Portland Thorns and French Division 1 Feminine powerhouse Paris-Saint Germain. She also scored 38 goals in 103 appearances with the Danish national team, helping lead the Danes to a UEFA Women’s Euro silver medal in 2017.

Nadim is also a medical doctor who speaks 11 languages and is working on a 12th (Spanish). The soccer player has been vocal about her family’s immigration from war-torn Afghanistan to Denmark. Her father was killed by the Taliban when she was 11-years-old.

With Racing, Nadim has nine goals in 19 appearances, making her one of the club’s all-time leading scorers. The club said that her international experience and fiery personality make her a key figure for Louisville’s young roster.

Her injury last fall came a year and one week after the striker tore her right ACL in Sept. 2021.

She returns to her Louisville squad at the perfect time. Racing is without five key players who are playing for their national teams in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Friday’s 8 p.m. kickoff counts as a regular season match against the Kansas City Current at Lynn Family Stadium.