It was a secret of the Polichinelle. At the time of her appointment to Chelsea last spring, she had somewhat praised her in front of the cameras of Canal+.
“It is also a family choice because we have the opportunity to offer our children the opportunity to discover a new culture, a new language, a new mentality”she had slipped.
But this time, doubt is no longer allowed. In her autobiography “a football life” that comes out this Wednesday, Sonia Bompastor is indeed engaged in her private life, not hesitating to reveal that she and her former Bleues partner, who became her assistant in Lyon then in Chelsea, Formed a couple for many years, with four children aged three and nine. An approach all except simple.
“It's not easy”
“Revealing my common life with Camille, our couple, after – as I say in the book – these 13 years of lie is still a subject on which today we are not quite comfortable . We are rather discreet and we like to have a completely normal life ”entrusted the Sonia Bompastor Team, its abundant companion in the same direction: “Talking about our private lives is not what we prefer, what I prefer. We like to stay in football. “
“People around us often say that in models, we can help people to become aware of certain things”nevertheless noted the former central defender, adding: “Now, with age, I tell myself that if it can help other people, to reveal themselves or to move better in their lives, why not. »»
“Our model, from an early age, is a couple, it is a man and a woman. Growing up, feeling an attraction for a woman, not knowing what is going on, not having the answers and not having in her entourage of the people with whom we can evoke the subject, it is not simple ”she continued on this subject, evoking “modesty, acceptance for oneself” to justify his reluctance to reveal their relationship. “We were still two known players, she added. We were already associated on a lot. We didn't want it to be that. »»
