The story of overcoming Tamires, the only player on the national team who is a mother

Tamires Cássia Dias de Brittocurrently a player Fortune Hjorringfrom Denmark, is a starter on the left side of the Brazilian Team at 2019 Women’s World Cup 🇧🇷 At 31, she is also the boy’s mother. bernard10 years old.

The player, the only mother on the Brazilian team, has the challenge, like many other women from different professions, of reconciling motherhood and career. Along the way, she had to take two breaks from her dream of playing football professionally.

The miner started her career in futsal. The first club she played professionally for was Juventus, from São Paulo, where she met her husband, Caesar of Britto, also a soccer player. At 21, with his career growing, discovered the pregnancy. It was difficult at first, but with the support of her husband’s family and relatives, everything fell into place.

After the birth of the boy, in 2009, and a period to dedicate himself exclusively to the family, in 2010, Tamires accepted an invitation to compose the squad of the newly created women’s team of Atlético Mineiro. But, as her husband was also playing on a team and worked a little far from where they lived, once again, the player interrupted her career and took care of her son.

But the dream did not end: Tamires was called up, for the first time, to represent the Brazilian national team in 2013. Since then, her name has continued on the lists of calls up. In 2015, she received a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.

On the return of the title, the athlete received a proposal from Fortuna Hjørring, a club from Denmark, and everything was different this time: her husband decided to drop football and accompany her.

So the family moved to the new country and they managed. “Today, many women work outside the home. It’s no different with me. The big question is the profession, because it is not very common to see a mother soccer player. I manage to reconcile well, I usually go to the gym when he is at school, and in the afternoon training, he stays with César or goes to training and watches me”, said the player in an interview for the website of the CBF🇧🇷

Today, aged 10, Bernardo is a big fan of his mother, who finds him one of her biggest incentives. “Nothing is more rewarding for a mother than being close to her child. But God gave me the gift of playing football and, today, he is giving me the opportunity to serve my country. I always try to do my best on the field, not only to help my team, but also to make it worthwhile to stay away from it”, says the player.

With a lot of determination, the player is in France to defend our country and is considered one of the main bets of the Brazilian team for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019🇧🇷 Mother and soccer star, yes!