The 24-year-old forward opens up about her matchday rituals, her admiration for Lionel Messi, and the very best goal she’s ever scored
“Soak all of it in, enjoy it and leave the tournament with no regrets. That was my motto for the Euros and I need it to be the very same for the World Cup,” Alessia Russo tells me after I ask what her gameplan is after making the England Women’s football squad competing in Australia and Latest Zealand this summer. The 24-year-old is being driven to a photoshoot as we speak, on the day that her emotional departure from Manchester United is confirmed.
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