Alisha Lehmann: The Swiss attacker and social media superstar lighting up the Women’s World Cup
Swiss attacker Alisha Lehmann will likely be well-known to followers of the Barclay’s Women’s Tremendous League, having performed for West Ham, Everton and, since 2021, Aston Villa, the place she hyperlinks up with Lionesses Rachel Daly and Jordan Nobbs to typically devastating impact.
However the 24-year-old is arguably even higher identified on-line because of her large following on Instagram, the place she has 13m followers – greater than fellow Swiss sporting nice Roger Federer – and reportedly earns as a lot as £241,314 for sponsored posts, according to The Sun.
Speaking to Sky Sports in the run-up to this summer season’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Lehmann mirrored on how far she had come from her hometown of Tagertschi on the outskirts of Bern.
“I grew up in a rustic village in Switzerland,” she stated. “Once I go house, we nonetheless have a variety of animals – horses and canine. All the things was so totally different.
“We simply performed avenue soccer all day. When a automobile got here, we shouted: ‘Automobile! Transfer!’ It was so regular. Now it’s a bit totally different! This makes me so humble as a result of I can at all times take into consideration this second. There’s a distinction now, I reside in an enormous metropolis. However I always remember it.”
Switzerland will likely be in search of to make a selected impression at this World Cup as the nation prepares to host the subsequent Euros in 2025.
Along with Lehmann, coach Inka Grings has Arsenal’s Lia Walti, PSG ahead Ramona Bachmann and Barcelona winger Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic to name upon in a difficult group that can see them play the Philippines, Norway and hosts New Zealand, the latter prone to profit from some passionate house assist.
