WSL star Alisha Lehmann believes social media might help improve the viewership of girls's soccer.
The Aston Villa winger has constructed up her personal assist on social media as she has extra followers than a few of sports activities largest stars.
Lehmann has 12 million followers on Instagram which is greater than tennis icon Roger Federer, boxers Tommy Fury and Jake Paul in addition to Man Metropolis star Jack Grealish and F1 champion Max Verstappen.
Whereas she will get a whole lot of curiosity for her glamorous snaps moderately than her footballing expertise, Lehmann has insisted that he's not distracted by it.
She informed talkSPORT: “To be trustworthy, I don’t actually give it some thought.
“It’s not one thing the place I get up daily and suppose, oh my God, I've so many followers.
“It’s extra that it’s very nice, the assist and every part and it’s additionally a giant alternative.
“I want to present the world that ladies can really do it in soccer and also you don’t want to simply to be regular.
“You too can be a bit loopy, simply be you, and use your persona to indicate the world who you're.”
Whereas, it has allowed the 24-year-old to develop her personal model, she does discover it irritating that she may be criticised for calling herself a footballer, with out all the time posting sports activities content material.
She added: “Some folks simply see Instagram and social media and don’t even know I really play soccer.
“Once I don’t publish a soccer image for per week, folks say, ‘oh she doesn’t even play’.
“I feel generally it’s a bit onerous as a result of clearly, I play like I practice daily, like everybody else, like I play each weekend and generally it’s onerous as a result of they make an image of you.
“I’m a correct footballer. I work onerous daily. I wish to be the very best model of myself in soccer and that’s my first precedence in life.”
The Swiss worldwide additionally defined that lots of the girls that play again in Switzerland need to have second jobs to make sufficient cash.
However she believes that ladies's soccer is rising and that social media might help push it ahead.
Lehmann insisted: “England most likely is the image everybody ought to take a look at as a result of I don’t suppose in different nations it elevated that a lot.
“In Switzerland, for instance, everybody’s nonetheless working, 90 per cent most likely nonetheless work.
“I don’t suppose you may examine like something between girls’s and males’s soccer as a result of it’s simply so totally different how folks take a look at us and the way folks take a look at them.
“It’s simply not the identical. Girls’s soccer is all the time second class. I don’t suppose you’ll ever be top notch as a result of I feel lots of people nonetheless suppose that males’s soccer is the primary precedence.
“They don’t take into consideration girls’s soccer and I feel that’s a giant downside. Now social media is actually useful as a result of folks really see, oh, we play soccer, we are able to play soccer.
“Once they come to their first sport, after they are saying ‘oh it’s not even that unhealthy’ they’re shocked however folks decide earlier than they even noticed the precise sport.
“I don’t suppose this [being equal to men] will ever occur to be trustworthy, possibly within the subsequent 100 years however we won't be right here anymore.
“I hope that in the summertime once we play the World Cup it’s a giant, massive factor. I hope that can push girls’s soccer extra ahead.
“We simply must dwell within the second and recognize what we have now now and clearly develop it.”
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