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Chelsea women's head coach and her assistant have been dating over a decade and already have four children together.
The football world has been hit with a stunning revelation as Chelsea Women’s head coach Sonia Bompastor and her assistant Camille Abily have disclosed that they have been in a romantic relationship for 13 years and share four children together.
Speaking for the first time about their long-term relationship, Bompastor and Abily opened up to French newspaper L’Équipe on the eve of the release of Bompastor’s autobiography, admitting that they had kept their romance a secret for over a decade due to personal and professional reasons.
“Having lied for 13 years was a difficult secret to keep” – Bompastor
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Bompastor, who took charge of Chelsea Women last summer and remains unbeaten in her tenure so far, acknowledged that the secrecy surrounding their relationship was a burden.
“We are always looking for happiness,” Bompastor told L’Équipe.
“Finally, we realised that having lied for 13 years is a difficult secret to keep. With hindsight and our different experiences, we say to ourselves that we should have revealed it from the start. The message that I especially want to give is that we realise that the most important thing is happiness.”
The Guardian also reports that the pair have four children together.
Both Bompastor and Abily had illustrious careers as teammates at Lyon, winning multiple Women’s Champions League titles before transitioning into coaching.
Their contributions to the French national team were equally significant, with both earning over 150 international caps.
“We don’t work together because we are a couple” – Abily
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Addressing why they kept their relationship private for so long, Abily revealed that they did not want to be defined solely by their personal lives.
“We were still two well-known players. We were already associated with many things. We didn’t want it to be just that,” she explained.
“We are working together at the moment, but it won’t be like this [working at the same club] our whole life either. We don’t work together because we are a couple. We work together because we complement each other.”
Bompastor, who took over from Emma Hayes as Chelsea’s head coach, admitted that despite finally going public, discussing their relationship still feels somewhat uncomfortable.
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“Revealing my life together with Camille, our relationship, after – as I say in the book – these 13 years of lies, is still a subject on which we are not entirely comfortable today,” she said.
“We are rather discreet and we like to have a completely normal life.
“Growing up, feeling attracted to a woman, not knowing what’s going on, not understanding what’s going on, not having the answers and also not having people around you with whom you can talk about the subject, it’s not easy.”
This revelation adds another layer to Bompastor’s already remarkable career, proving that even in the high-pressure world of football, personal happiness remains just as significant as professional success.
Bompastor is the first person to win the UEFA Women's Champions League as both a player and a manager.
Bompastor was a two-time winner of the National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) Female Player of the Year, and following a move to the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league in the United States, earned Player of the Month and All-Star honors.
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