Douglas Luiz opens up on the main way girlfriend & fellow Aston Villa star Alisha Lehmann has helped him & reveals surprising rule couple have at home

The couple, who ply their club trade for Aston Villa in the Premier League and WSL respectively, rekindled their relationship towards the end of 2023. There have been plenty of public shows of affection on social media since then – with Lehmann boasting 17 million followers on Instagram – but they are eager to live as normal a life as possible.

Luiz has told the Daily Mail of everyday life: “People say we are like a celebrity couple but we are just normal. We go out for dinner. Go bowling. Go to the shop. I went to Tesco the other day. With no hat on or anything. I try to live my life. We both do. I like to go to Tesco. If someone wants to take a photo that’s OK. We do everything normal. We go to dinner when we want. I am more a home person anyway. But of course I do want to do some social things with her. Here in England everything is calm. If I go to the shop in Brazil it’s crazy, almost impossible. We have a good life here.”

Luiz added on how multilingual Swiss star Lehmann has helped him off the pitch: “My English is much better because of her. My first two years I couldn’t speak English but then I met her and now I need to. We can’t have an argument if I can’t speak the language can we? If we have an argument we can now resolve it in the moment. Before I had to use my phone to translate everything from Portuguese to English! The first time it happened I couldn’t speak anything. It had to change. She speaks so many languages. I think five. German, French, English, Portuguese and Swedish. I have three — Portuguese, English, Spanish. It’s not bad given that I didn’t even finish school.”

Luiz has also revealed that, while he and Lehmann attend as many matches as possible when the other is in action, they try not to discuss football matters at home. That surprising rule is serving them well, with Lehmann recently earning a 50th international cap for her country while Luiz is chasing down a top-four finish and Champions League qualification.