VIDEO. Amel Majri recounts her daily life as a mother and footballer

“If I could redo it, I would”. If some time earlier, Amel Majri confided in an interview her hesitation to repeat the same course, in particular due to breastfeeding, insomnia and her weight loss, she claims today to see all the love that her daughter brings her, but also the energy and the challenge of returning, as an athlete, to the highest level after a pregnancy. “Getting pregnant, too, we know we’re away long enough. So it’s a very, very big challenge, but to feel that we are accompanied to come back, it gives extra strength and it also makes you want to say to yourself: ‘I can have a child quietly and serenely.’ Having your child with you, at least, means not having your head elsewhere. And me, it also allows me to be fully focused on my activity and to be concentrated to the maximum.”

Be accompanied in this new life

When Amel Majri speaks of support, she refers directly to her federation, which had promised her certain accommodations. “The federation called me to find out how it was going in the club, so that they had this time in advance and that it allowed me to be in the same conditions as in the club. I had concerns initially. Because between what we’re promised and what’s going to be, sometimes it’s not necessarily the case, but here it really happened as they told me. These promises kept have allowed the footballer to be more confident, to bring her daughter everywhere with her and to remove a “less mental load” to the young mother. She explains that she notably exchanged with other sportswomen, also young mothers, including judoka Clarisse Agbegnenou and basketball player Valériane Vukosavljević on the arrangements made by each of their respective federations. “I think we are somewhat on an equal footing, let’s say. But for me, we can still do better.”