Alessia Russo
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Arsenal Women
EnglandAlessia Russo was born on 8 February 1999 in Maidstone, England. An English forward currently playing for Arsenal, she won the FA Women's League Cup in 2024 and the UEFA Women's Champions League in 2025 with Arsenal. Her individual honors include FWA Women's Footballer of the Year for 2024–25 and England Women's Player of the Year for 2023–24. She has earned over 40 caps and scored 20 international goals for England, appearing in all seven matches at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. With England, she won two UEFA Women's Euros (2022 and 2025) and the 2023 Women's Finalissima.
Her 2025-2026 season:
Complete Centre-Forward Profile: Demonstrates exceptional physical hold-up play, operating effectively as a focal point to pin central defenders and link midfield runners.
Box Presence and Aerial Threat: Highly adept at timing penalty-box runs and attacking crosses from wide areas across dynamic attacking structures.
Technical Ball Striking: Combines clean instinctual finishing inside the eighteen-yard box with inventive close-range link-up play.
Historic Tournament Impact: Became the first player to score 4 goals as a substitute in a single Women's EURO tournament during England's victorious 2022 campaign.
Record International Hat-Trick: Scored an 11-minute hat-trick for England against Latvia in November 2021, establishing the fastest hat-trick in Lionesses history.
Major Tournament Clinical Output: Recorded 3 goals across 7 matches during the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, scoring decisive goals in both the quarter-final and semi-final.
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