Lioness star Hannah Hampton's reason for turning down eye surgery amid condition

England football star Hannah Hampton has revealed that her eyes are "still not straight" despite undergoing multiple surgeries throughout her life for a long-term condition. The Lioness goalie helped secure England's Euros victory last weekend when she blocked multiple Spanish goals during the penalty shoot-out.

The 24-year-old has proven herself to be a star football player - despite suffering from strabismus - an eye condition which affects depth perception. Speaking on Good Morning Britain today, Hannah admitted that she still has difficulties with her eyes.

Hannah shared that while she could choose to have more surgery for the eye condition, she doesn't want to take the risk. It comes after Hannah won the Euros after doctors said she couldn't play football.

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Speaking to GMB's Ed Balls and Kate Garraway, Hannah explained: "I was born cross-eyed, I had to undergo multiple surgeries from when I was three and obviously later to correct my vision. To put my eyes straight again, to see if it would help in any way.

"They're still not straight. I can go back for more operations but there's always that risk that it won't improve your eyesight. It might make it worse. It's something you've got to weigh up."

As presenter Ed pointed out that things are going pretty well for the England star, she said: "I know! So why change it if it's going well."

She later opened up about how doctors told her to stop playing football as a child due to her eyesight. "The doctor said I shouldn’t play sports because I don’t have any depth perception, which basically [means] I can’t judge distances.

"Which as a keeper, I don’t know how it works, but my parents never really told me until I was about 12 or 13 and I was already playing sport… and they would say ‘this isn’t normal, you shouldn’t be doing that’ but my parents always said ‘if it makes her happy, we’re not going to stop her’ and I’m glad they didn't take the doctor’s advice as I managed to live out my dream."

Earlier this week, the football star revealed that she had been dealing with the heartbreaking loss of her grandfather, who died just two days before the start of the Euros. "Dear Grandpa," she wrote on Instagram. "Two days before the biggest tournament of my life, you left. It still doesn’t feel real.

"I kept thinking when I’d call nannie I’d hear your voice again - one of your jokes, or one of those little comments you’d make that somehow said everything without saying much at all. You were one of my biggest supporters. You believed in me before I even knew what this journey would look like."

She added that it breaks her heart that he didn't get to see her walk out at her first major tournament, adding: "But I know, deep down, you were still there. I felt you with me. In the tunnel. On the pitch. In the tough moments. I heard you in my head when I needed strength."

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