In an interview, Georgia Stanway is enthusiastic about her development at FC Bayern – also because she didn’t have a kitchen at first.
Suddenly sociable: Georgia Stanway. IMAGO/Sports Press Photo
When Georgia Stanway switched from Manchester City to FC Bayern a year ago, she took a risk that she has not regretted to this day. “I’m just a lot more open as a person,” said the England international in an interview with the Guardian a few days before the start of the 2023 World Cup. And that was apparently her plan.
She was deliberately looking for a “fresh start” with her transfer, Stanway explains, and that’s why she said from the start to those around her who had offered her support: “No, I want to do it alone.” In the meantime, the 24-year-old feels that she has arrived, not only in terms of sport with a leading role in central midfield (“I never expected that”) and as the reigning German champion, but also personally.
“I went to a country where nobody knew me and I could be whoever I wanted to be. Nobody judged me. I developed so much. I was never the most sociable person but in the new environment I wanted to go out for tea every night,” says Stanway, later explaining that by that she means dinner. “I wanted to see people in Germany.”
“Life is too short to learn German” – Stanway agrees
She had landed in Munich just a few days after the European Championship triumph and was initially faced with new challenges. “I moved into an apartment that didn’t have a kitchen for the first month and it was all a bit chaotic. But that shaped me because it meant I had to socialize. Finding a business that sells kitchens, was a nightmare so I had to ask people to come with me to buy one.”
She thinks Munich is “a really beautiful city. It’s a lot colder in winter than Manchester, but I love it.” Only the new language is still a big construction site. “I saw a quote that said, ‘Life is too short to learn German,’ and I totally agree. I have two hours of class a week and my teacher keeps saying, ‘It’ll just click do it’. But after almost twelve months it still hasn’t clicked.”
2023-07-13 00:02:28
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