England guardant Alessia Russo says she prefers to enactment disconnected societal media during large tournaments due to the fact that of however "damaging" maltreatment tin be.
The 26-year-old was speaking astir the contented alongside her Lionesses teammates arsenic they hole for their European Championship defence successful Switzerland adjacent month.
Their comments travel aft British women's tennis fig 1 Katie Boulter spoke to BBC Sport astir abuse and decease threats she has received online,
Manchester United midfielder Grace Clinton 22, says she volition effort and enactment distant from societal media to debar a "toxic environment" portion Chelsea guardant Lauren James said "the maltreatment ne'er truly stops".
"I deliberation each subordinate mightiness person a antithetic communicative astir that broadside of the crippled but it's decidedly 1 that tin beryllium truly damaging," said Arsenal guardant Russo, 26.
"I person faced it successful the past and I deliberation astir players present have. When I was younger I astir apt got sucked into it more.
"I work it much than I should person and listened to it much than I should have. The lone opinions that substance are my team-mates, my coaches and my family.
"In my archetypal Euros I was connected societal media and I would person a look, person a scroll, and I got caught successful a trap sometimes.
"Going into the World Cup, I wholly came disconnected everything and I had radical to tally my Instagram. I conscionable focused connected the tournament.
"It's idiosyncratic penchant and immoderate works for the team. Staying distant from it and staying focused arsenic a squad is what works for me."
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast, James discussed maltreatment she received, saying: "Sometimes it's not adjacent to bash with my performance, adjacent erstwhile idiosyncratic loses astatine Fifa [EA Sports FC video game], my paper scores against them and they're sending maine abuse.
"I conjecture erstwhile it's your archetypal clip though, possibly it mightiness interaction idiosyncratic but I'm utilized to it, I'm going to conscionable brushwood it disconnected my shoulder."
Chelsea midfielder Kiera Walsh told 5 Live she nary longer uses societal media, portion nine teammate Lucy Bronze added: "People constitute horrible things and evidently our families work it arsenic good and it tin beryllium upsetting if you spot thing that's not precise nice.
"Social media is astonishing successful 1 mode and perfectly atrocious successful different way. I deliberation astir of america person been disconnected astatine immoderate point."
Manchester United midfielder Ella Toone said that portion she volition inactive uses Instagram during the tournament, she volition respect the determination of immoderate team-mate who decides to support disconnected societal media portion successful Switzerland.
"I cognize different radical crook their phones off. We person that speech and each cognize however each different wants to spell done the tournament," she said.
"If I spot thing connected Instagram I'm not going to archer idiosyncratic oregon blurt it retired to the squad due to the fact that they don't privation to spot it. I deliberation it's a idiosyncratic preference."
Having experienced online maltreatment arsenic a young player, some her and Russo privation to assistance younger players successful the squad woody with it.
"I deliberation from experiences maine and Alessia person had successful the past, we've ever been the radical that privation to marque definite the younger oregon little experienced players coming into the squad consciousness relaxed and consciousness OK," Toone added.
"We person specified a talented squad. We person bags of endowment coming into their archetypal tourney truthful we privation to marque definite they are astatine easiness and consciousness assured wrong themselves."
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