Alex Greenwood ready to get past her social media abuse
The Blues star insists that she’s no longer affected by the online criticism and insists that it helps her turn the negative energy into her benefit.
defender,
Alex Greenwood, talked about being the subject of social media abuse during the Women’s World Cup back in 2019, and how she deals with such negativity now.
The
EnglandInternational told
PA news agency
:
“I feel like I’ve spoken about this (social media abuse) so much recently.”
“I feel like I’ve got to the point now where I’m just like ‘let the football do the talking’ and I feel like I’ve said what I needed to say on the point and it’s never going to completely stop.”
Greenwood, who is nearing her 50th international appearance with the Three Lions, added about how she would deal with the negativity accompanying online abuse, saying:
“It’s something that’s always there, but I can channel it a lot differently to how I could maybe four or five months ago.”
“I probably look at the positive ones more than the negative ones now and they’re fuel for me anyway.”
“So difficult of course – not going to lie about it, in the past it was difficult at times, more for my family than anything – but now I just take it with a pinch of salt.”
During her time as a
Lyonplayer, Greenwood was able to witness her team’s fifth consecutive European Champions League title.
Talking about her development as a Lyon footballer before joining Manchester City, she continued:
“To be truthfully honest, at the beginning it wasn’t easy to move away from home, to go to a different country, different culture, different language, wasn’t easy at first, it took me about four or five months to settle.”
“Once I did and I picked up the language a little bit, picked up how they worked and stuff I absolutely loved it, it was the best experience I’ve had in football.”
“I’m not going to sit here and say it was all roses because it wasn’t, as well as winning trophies it came with some difficult times, but when you’re playing for a club like Lyon you’re only going to improve.”
“I focused entirely on football and what it was doing for me and I feel like I came back as a better person and as a better all-round player.”
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