The Professional Footballer

In this episode Laura speaks with Emma Mitchell, captain of Reading FC Women and member of Scotland’s National Team.

We talk about her career as a professional footballer, maternity leave and motherhood. Emma’s daughter Innes is 10 months old and Emma returned to football after 8 months of mat leave.

We touch upon mental health, physical recovery from birth and logistics of being a mum and training/playing professional football. It was brilliant to talk with Emma and hear what she had to say about motherhood and an athletic career. I hope you enjoy listening.

You can watch Emma in the BBC programme The Future of Women’s Football:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cdwd26

And the Scotland team video following Emma’s return to her national team and qualifying camp can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwRJ1E6KRwo

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