Lucy Bronze reveals the main reason she joined Chelsea and left Barcelona

I’m not idiosyncratic who has a program and that truly is the case. I’ve ne'er had a plan! But I emotion challenging myself and that’s wherefore I signed for Chelsea.

I’m 32 and person won titles successful antithetic countries but thing was calling maine to travel backmost location and it each made consciousness erstwhile my erstwhile Lyon brag Sonia Bompastor became Chelsea’s caller manager.

My household were much stressed than maine astir wherever I would extremity up this season. But I’ve not played successful England since we won the Euros 2 years agone and I missed retired connected seeing the effect that has had connected the Women’s Super League.

It besides means my household tin travel and spot maine easy for the archetypal clip successful a fewer years.

I’d wanted to walk clip reasoning astir whether to enactment with Barcelona. I loved it determination but I felt it was a bully clip to permission and bash thing different.

For me, there’s nary uncertainty that if I hadn’t had bully options disposable to maine elsewhere, I would person stayed.

It’s existent Liga F needs to beryllium developed much and I deliberation the powers-that-be cognize that. A top-flight run successful Spain is 
so taxing and I was alert of the request to play successful a league wherever determination are less matches but much meaningful ones.

At Barca, we won 29 of our league games, drafting the other, scoring 137 goals and conceding ten, winning the rubric by 15 points from runners-up Real Madrid.

There is nary uncertainty Barcelona are 1 of the champion teams successful the satellite but I besides felt I could spell to different clubs and triumph much Champions League crowns, though I’m definite determination are those who deliberation it was a brainsick determination to permission the European champions erstwhile I did.

To enactment different twelvemonth oregon 2 would person been precise gruelling successful presumption of the workload – Spain truly has a league similar nary other.

I was good alert England’s our defence of the European Championship is coming up adjacent summertime and besides that I person to marque the astir of nevertheless agelong I person near successful my playing career.

I had to look aft my assemblage and marque a telephone based connected the reply to the questions: ‘How agelong tin I enactment astatine the highest level and what is the champion spot for maine to bash that?’.

I felt England was the close prime and Chelsea became a genuine enactment for maine erstwhile Sonia took implicit 
this summer.

I worked alongside her astatine Lyon from 2017 to 2020, erstwhile she was academy director, arsenic we won 3 successive European titles together. Sonia and her unit are similar friends to maine arsenic good arsenic colleagues.

Something felt close abruptly astir going backmost to England and joining Chelsea? I conscionable thought: ‘Let’s spell for it.’

Why not effort to assistance Chelsea triumph that elusive archetypal Champions League crown? That’s the extremity for maine now: I privation to triumph the European rubric with an English club. Chelsea predominate WSL each twelvemonth but person not rather got implicit the enactment erstwhile it comes to the Champions League.

What Sonia, her squad and maine adhd is that Champions League-winning experience. I cognize however hard it is to win.

I’m motivated to triumph much trophies and I americium ever attracted to clubs that are the same. I besides similar the unit of trying to bash that successful a caller place, adding different acquisition to 
my locker.

The timing was cleanable successful the end. Sonia loves to physique a task and these are radical I cognize well. I’ve ne'er lived successful London oregon down southbound earlier truthful determination is the added inducement of getting to cognize a new-ish spot again.

A caller escapade rejuvenates maine and I expect this 1 to beryllium nary different. Bring connected Aston Villa connected Friday and the commencement of an breathtaking caller play successful caller surroundings.

As a British, female-led brand, ALIGNE are arrogant to beryllium partnering with Lucy Bronze arsenic we champion women successful sport. Female athletes are the epitome of assurance and spot and Lucy represents everything ALIGNE stands for.

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