Women’s World Cup players balance motherhood with athletic ambitions

Jamaican Girls’s World Cup participant Cheyna Matthews tears up when she recollects one in every of her three little boys saying: “Why are you at all times gone so lengthy?”

However some gamers on the match in Australia and New Zealand have discovered an answer to struggling comparable anxieties about being other than their younger youngsters for weeks — they’ve introduced them alongside.

Midfielder Melanie Leupolz has her toddler son and a nanny along with her in the course of the match, which can final one month if Germany fulfills expectations again house by reaching the ultimate in Sydney on Aug. 20.