England’s Bronze feeling the glare of being in the spotlight
winning only one game of their SheBelieves Cup defence in March.
Former Sunderland Ladies star Bronze admits that the extra attention has come at a tougher time for the team but says she is a player who is open to criticism and believes it can only be a good thing for the women's game.
She added: "With that media attention, more people watching in general, your everydaypersononthestreet,people (appreciate the criticism). I am one of those players who is are more in tune with what quiteopentocriticismandIam is happening in women's football quite happy to take that criticism now. At the moment that but I still think because is probably not a good thing for people see me as Lucy Bronze us!Butingeneralitisgoodthat over the last five years, people people know what is going on lookatmeandgo'she'sasuperstar and are showing a huge interest. and can do no wrong'. That really changed from "It is more the players who the start of the World Cup to don't have such a high profile the end. who tend to get dug out a bit
"To a certain extent I do more in women's football. It seemed to me from the World Cup that the better known you are the less you can do wrong."
Bronze, who joined Lyon from Manchester City in 2017, is back in Manchester during the coronavirus shutdown after the Feminine Division 1 wassuspendedaheadofLyon's high-profileclashwithParisSt Germain on March 14.
"It (coronavirus) is kind of ahead in France a little bit, we were meant to have a game a couple of weeks ago against PSG and that was cancelled so I flew back to England and that weekend France was put on lockdown," Bronze added.
"So I had got myself back to England and it was about a week later that the lockdown happened in England.
“All of our foreign players got back to their own countries."