Episode 14 - Shauna Muamba
LifeStyled Club - The Podcast
English - February 21, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsSports Health & Fitness footballers wives professional football soccer wellbeing mental health women in sport wives and partners Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On this episode, Helen and Maggie are joined by LifeStyled Club member Shauna Muamba. Nearly 10 years ago, Shauna watched her husband, Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba, collapse on the pitch 43 minutes after kick-off in the FA Cup tie between Bolton and Spurs. As the stadium fell silent and medical staff huddled around him, the match was abandoned, Fabrice’s heart had stopped beating. Shauna, his fiancée at the time, had to race down to London to be with him.
Coming up, Shauna shares with us this traumatic time in her life and supporting Fabrice in his long road to recovery, and how it changed their family.
She discusses the financial impact a career-ending injury had on their future, but how an insurance payout eased the blow. Through her own experience, she encourages friends in football to make sure they have a plan in place to protect them.
This conversation is a great example of just how much the wives and partners play an important role throughout a players career, not only during times of success but when the unexpected happens too and how it only takes a few seconds to change a whole life and a whole career.
Shauna also chats to us about the amazing business she co-founded, ‘Land Of Decor’. A service that’s loved by many of the families in football, delivering premium furniture for rental or purchase purposes.
We loved chatting with Shauna and hearing her story of life in football. We hope you like this episode.
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