England and Arsenal forward Alessia Russo already knows how she wants to spend her time in the United States.
The team is preparing for a first-of-its-kind preseason tour, first playing the NWSL’s Washington Spirit on August 18th at Audi Field, before a friendly against longtime WSL rival Chelsea on August 25th. But Russo also has other plans for her time in Washington, DC.
“I’m excited to go to Chipotle — I love it there,” she told Just Women’s Sports about a week before her team was scheduled to fly across the Atlantic. “They do actually have a couple in London, but they’re really far out for me. So I’m looking forward to Chipotle.”
Russo has already seen her football career take her to heights she only dreamed of as a kid, winning the European Championship in 2022 with England, making it to a World Cup final the following year, and signing with Arsenal in 2023 after a successful three years starring for Manchester United.
Russo’s footballing journey first took her to the US in 2017, where she cut her teeth in NCAA soccer at the University of North Carolina…
