Alessia Russo says decision to leave Manchester United was 'tough' but focus is now on World Cup

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with the Women's World Cup just 23 days

away there is a media day at St George's

park where you get to meet the players

Anton to Louis is with one now Anton

oh not just one of the players one of

the stars of the euro is one of the most

talked about players going into the

World Cup Alessia Russo joins us live on

Sky Sports News unless you look there's

only one place to start obviously we

haven't spoken to you since announced

that you live in Manchester United so

just how difficult decision has that

been

of that I have a lot of love for um

on England camp and we're all looking

forward to the World Cup and getting

really prepared how close are we to

getting a decision about where you go

next and how much did you want to get

all this sorted before because the World

Cup started yeah I think for right now

now I'm on Campbell all my focus is on

England and the World Cup and I think

it's a huge opportunity we've got a

massive summer ahead so it's been a good

week week prepping and yeah all focuses

on World Cup right now how has it been

back in training I suppose it's been

like a mini pre-season and Serena been

put in three Paces the last couple of

weeks yeah it's been good it's nice to

be back on the pitch obviously you train

a bit while you're away after your

holidays so yeah it was nice but to be

back on the pitch and training with the

ball and with the team is is what it's

all about a little bit of drama in

training today when when Alex went down

with that big collision with Georgia was

it the moments like that you're like oh

God that and that happens to us that's

that's a big deal I mean I

unfortunately

yeah they're fine so that's good you're

coming into the tournament England's

kind of starting number nine but you've

got a lot of competition haven't you

yeah absolutely and I think that's what

makes this team so special is that

there's so much competition

um all across the pitch and this week's

been really nice to get out on the pitch

and get get training um and yeah

competing and that's what it's our job

to to be here play football and compete

with each other so yeah it's been nice

to be back you've gone from Super Sub to

Superstar going into this tournament

yourself how does it feel different if

you personally going into this tour

I mean I don't know about that yet but

um yeah I think it's nice obviously it's

a World Cup it's so different to last

summer and I think that we recognize

that as players um and yeah we're aware

that it's going to be different and

we're all really looking forward to it

it's a World Cup it's what you dream

about as a kid no you're surrounded by

all your teammates coming up you've got

a 24-hour flight to Australia coming up

which one of these ones are you going to

try and avoid on that flight

um

well I'm going to be sat with Tooney but

I'm going to avoid Mary because I think

she's just going to want to sleep and I

think I'm going to want a bit of a chat

so I'll just let her crack on and me and

Tony can chat away 24 hours of latitude

sounds delightful I know it doesn't it

couldn't sound better

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