A biography for Alex Greenwoodhasn’t been written yet.
“My go-to pre-match meal is porridge. Nice and simple.”
“I definitely believe that BSL should be taught on the curriculum in schools.”
“If anything I got respected more because I was a girl.”
“I look at my social media sometimes and go, wow I just look like a boring footballer who does nothing else.”
“An Olympic Games, a Euros in our home country and then a World Cup which is three years back-to-back of the tournaments that you train all your life for to play in.”
“I wanted to create a safe place for girls to play football.”
“When it affects your daily life that is when it becomes a problem for me. I suppose it depends on the individual and how you react to stuff on social media. It's quite easy for me to speak about now but I have been through it myself, it is not nice to see or read.”
“In football, if you don't have setbacks, that's abnormal.”
“Whoever you play with you try and play to their strengths.”
“You have to be unselfconscious on the pitch.”
“We want to win everything that we play in.”
“It's not always plain sailing in an England shirt.”
“I have family who work with the NHS, and I don't think we can thank them enough.”
“Since Sky came onboard to show the WSL, the level of detail that Casey Stoney and Karen Carney have been speaking about games as pundits is brilliant.”
“It's so nice and not just to see my name but seeing any of the girls' names on the back of kid's shirts it's a really nice sight to see.”
“Of course, you don't want to lose any semi-final.”
“People ask what I do to get away from the game but I don't want to escape it.”
“I had so much respect for Casey as a player and that doesn't change as a manager. She's someone I always looked up to. I always knew in games I'd play with her she'd improve me.”
“For my first World Cup I don't think there was any sense of nervousness because you kind of go with nothing to lose.”
“As an athlete what I put in my body is vital for my performance and when I was preparing for the World Cup it meant that no matter what, regardless of where I was, nutrition needed to be at the forefront of my mind, as well as staying on top of my health inside and out.”