Bronze dreams of European glory with English club
England and Lyon right-back Lucy Bronze has promised play in the Women’s Super League again and revealed an ambition to win the Champions League with an English club before she retires.
Bronze, who is widely regarded as the best right-back in the women’s game, has twice won both the league title and Champions League since leaving Manchester City for France two years ago.
However, the 28-year-old, who has just been nominated for the Ballon d’or for the second time, admires the growth of the English league into the only full-time league in Europe. “I’ll definitely play in the WSL again in my career,” she told Telegraph Sport. “Probably not in the near future, but I went to Lyon because I wanted to win the Champions League.
“But I think winning the Champions League in your home country, for your home team, would be more fulfilling than winning the Champions League with Lyon.
“It would change the English game. That would be the dream – to win the Champions League with an English team.”
Bronze has aspirations of working for a governing body once she retires – particularly, the Football Association, where “I feel like you’d have way more of an influence, as an English ex-player, to change things”. Now a senior member of Phil Neville’s England squad, Bronze has regular phone calls and meetings with the FA’S head of football, Baroness Sue Campbell, about “making changes for the whole of women’s football” and ensuring the Lionesses “can be more equal to the men in the ways we’re treated”.