Alisha Lehmann is not the best player in the world, but she is possibly one of the most popular faces on the soccer planet.. The Swiss footballer, who currently plays for Aston Villa, accumulates 24 million followers on social networkswhere each video or photo you upload accumulates thousands of interactions.
Lehmann is known for being one of the great influencers of the soccer world. It has a very large community spread all over the world and on all platforms: 14.4 million followers on Instagram, 9.5 million on Tik Tok, 374K on Facebook and 179K on Twitter. The soccer player exhibits both her professional life and her personal life on these platforms, receiving a lot of interaction every time she post something. “I have many followers, but I never dreamed of having them. Obviously I’m proud to have them, but it doesn’t change anything. I don’t think I’m better than anyone because of it. I come from a humble family and from a small town in Switzerland,” he recently commented in a interview granted to Sky Sport.
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Lehmann hails from Tgertschi, a Swiss commune in the canton of Bern with just 393 inhabitants, where Alisha began playing soccer in the streets. “When I come home I really enjoy animals. My family has horses and dogs. It’s very different from city life,” she reveals. The forward played in the BSC YV Frauen Swiss before moving to England, where he made a career in the West Ham, Everton and Aston Villateam in which he has played since 2021.
After playing in lower categories (Under’17 and Under’19), Lehmann made her debut with the senior team in 2017 in a friendly in which Switzerland lost to Japan and she came on in the second half, taking over from Eseosa Aigbogun, today a teammate at the world Cup. Since then adds 40 caps and six goals with his country. In the 2023 World Cup he has participated in two games: 21 minutes against the Philippines in the debut and 20 minutes against New Zealand in the clash that closed the group stage and qualifying for the round of 16 where this Saturday they will face Spain. “When you play for your country, you remember where you come from. You have your country’s crest on your shirt and that means a lot,” she says. “I had been waiting all my life to play in a World Cup. The feeling of seeing yourself on the field with your team is incredible,” he recounts.
Lehmann is not only a media icon (she is the image of Adidas) but also a woman who uses her focus to fight against the machismo and misogyny that exists around soccer.. “Obviously it’s not a nice thing because we train very hard every day, but it gives me more strength. It’s always easy to talk behind a computer. I don’t really care, many times I don’t even look at what they write and just focus on the good comments” , reply. “I feel more for my family. Sometimes my mother sends me things and I say: ‘Don’t read this, I would never read it,'” she explains.
Lehmann is also an important asset for the LGTBI community by declaring himself openly bisexual.. The relationships he has had with his teammate are known Ramona Bachmanas well as with the Brazilian soccer player douglas luiz. But above all he is a footballer and in New Zealand he is living a dream that he wants to continue to spread…
