Since the start of the confinement linked to the coronavirus pandemic, Elodie Thomis, the former wisp of the French women's team converted from a journalist, has published several videos entitled #HomeFootHome in which she interviews different active players to find out how she manages this very special period. This Monday, after internationals such as Eugénie Le Sommer or Griedge Mbock, Thomis posted a video of Pauline Peyraud-Magnin, the substitute goalkeeper of the Bleues (4 selections). And it said it was better to have been "a fright" by having contracted the Covid-19.
"All the doctors I had told me that I had contracted Covid-19," said the player who plays at Arsenal, near London, a club which had already been affected by the coronavirus with the men's team coach Mikel Arteta. “I had a lot of symptoms related to this virus, namely fever, a feeling of polar cold, a constant headache, respiratory discomfort, immense fatigue and loss of taste and smell. I checked a lot of boxes. ” A virus which she however probably caught in France, during a passage in Lyon since she tells to have felt the first symptoms on March 16, only four days after her return to England where she had started to put herself voluntarily in confinement , since the British government only introduced it very recently on a mandatory basis.
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9th #HomeFootHome meeting with Pauline Peyraud Magnin Exclusively, the guardian of @ equipedefrance and @ arsenalwfc reveals that she was “very afraid” after contracting, according to her doctors, the # covid_19 Confined in England, Pauline confided in the primary goal of raising awareness among all those who think they are safe from the dangers of this virus. #HomeFootHome #RestezChezVous #Prenezsoindevous #Restezalamaison #StayAtHome #StayStrong #Football #WomenFootball @fff @barclaysfawsl @uefa_official @uwcl @easportsfifa Concept & production: Elodie Thomis, Romain Balland & Jérôme Vitoux
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When she started to feel these warning signs, the goalkeeper talked about it with her mother, who made the connection with the Covid-19. "I started to get really scared. Difficulties in breathing ensued. There, I really freaked out because it stresses. Stress generates hyper ventilation and so on… Just to phone or to say things, I couldn't do it. It caused fatigue like I never had. As they say, it got me down. It's been eleven days since I haven't been out of my house at all. ” Nevertheless, today, Peyraud-Magnin is going up the slope, even if it very logically confesses not to have been able to honor the physical maintenance program that had given it the staff of the Gunners. To keep morale high, the French international reads, stays in contact with her friends and family, and she looks a lot… at Disney, whose music "gives her back the smile".
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