In the summer, Georgia Stanway switched from Manchester City to the Bayern women as a beacon of hope. And the 23-year-old midfielder hasn’t disappointed so far: she’s one of the top performers on the pitch, always demanding the ball and conveying with every fiber of her body that she wants to be a leader and figurehead.
Good odds, have fun off the pitch
Since playing for Munich, she has scored six goals in 19 competitive games. Your voice carries weight on the pitch. Stanway has definitely arrived in Munich: “We all spend a lot of time together and sometimes go shopping in the city. We also like going out for something good to eat, there’s something nice regarding everything,” says Stanway.
Nickname “steam locomotive”: right-hand shot as a trademark
Before her time in Munich, she played for Manchester City for seven years, worked her way up there and became an international for England. At the home European Championships in England, Stanway was allowed to wear the symbolic shirt number ten. Her trademark is her right shot, her nickname “Steam Locomotive”, her motto: “Work, work, work.”
Perfectionist looking for consistency
“For me personally, consistency is the most important thing on the pitch. I always try to push my limits in training,” she says. “It’s been really, really fun for the past four months.”
There was only one thing the well-prepared perfectionist Stanway hadn’t counted on: the weather in Munich, especially the rapidly falling temperatures in winter. “That’s why I usually stay at home in the evenings and only leave the apartment if I absolutely have to.”
