Playing Away (Brits around Europe)

A reference page noting that while continental players bring extra character to British leagues, there is a long tradition running the other way, British players heading to Italy in the 1970s and 1980s and to Scandinavia from the 1990s onwards, and that FIFA has brought the women’s game into its International Transfer Matching System because international transfers are only expected to increase. She Kicks then publishes a roll call, compiled with help from Twitter, of UK nationals playing across Europe. It runs country by country: Rosella Ayane and Ashleigh Bullock in Cyprus; Lucy Bronze at Lyon; Ellie Brazil, Lana Clelland, Emma Lipman, Katie Zelem and others in Italy; Lily Agg, Leah Galton, Sophie Howard and Jessica King in Germany; players in Iceland, the Netherlands and Norway; Toni Duggan at Barcelona; and Fiona Brown, Vaila Barsley, Ifeoma Dieke and Shannon Lynn in Sweden.