Julie German (1.74 m, 25 years old) had a rich year 2021, marked by many competitions and of course health constraints. This Thursday, the leader delivered her feelings on it in a series of posts on Instagram. She comes back to it and explains her feelings about this year 2021 which has been so “special” for her. Indeed, the Belgian international has admitted to having experienced a “basketball burnout”. She could not accept Belgium’s one-point defeat against Japan in the quarter-finals of the Olympic Games in Tokyo (86-85). She tells :
“With 4 months of hindsight, I still have the same feeling of unfinished business, of failure every time I think back to that 7th place we won. Losing 1 point against Japan in the quarter-finals. This after losing 1 point against Serbia in the semi-final of the European Championship a month earlier … Being so close to achieving an achievement, with the team we had, we were able to do it. Knowing that it is too late, we will never change the situation. ”
In club, however, the year was good. His long message begins with a gentle heat in the south of France. Julie Allemand looks back on her experience at Lattes-Montpellier, with a title a Coupe de France and a place of vice-champion of LFB. She remembers above all the sweet life she led there with “a magnificent environment, awakenings with the sunrise over the sea”.
The native of Liège then returned to Lyon, to play again for ASVEL Féminin, a club she had attended between 2017 and 2020. But this return was not as easy as expected for Julie Allemand.
“It feels like everything is fine, until the mind comes to disturb you. Until the first loss with Lyon is a flashback to your crying after the game against Japan. you no longer find your place on the field, that you have the impression of being useless, that you are no longer yourself, that you ask yourself too many questions, that you lose your own basketball, that you don’t ‘have more confidence in yourself but above all, that you have lost all this energy, this desire to be and to fight on the ground. You feel that you reach a point that you had never known before, and believe me, it’s scary. You cry for nothing, you don’t want to go train, play a match, you would like to stop. Yes, that’s what happened .. I was empty of having given for so long years without ever having taken the time to stop and think about myself. I never thought I would say that one day but it was definitely a basketball burnout, and I think the hardest part of it , those t to accept it, to accept that it is not right, and that everything is going to take time. “
But, in an almost disconcerting altruism, she keeps her head held high. Her message, Julie Allemand also publishes to help all the people who are going through this period in their life. She wants to serve as a reference for them. Finally, Julie Allemand is well aware of this: she is not yet healed of her burnout:
“I decided to accept this situation, this daily” step by step “, and to focus on myself above all, do what I want and enjoy because in the end, we have only one only life, and we don’t know what tomorrow will bring… “
She ends her message by pointing to 2021: “Thank you for all these ups and downs which today make me much stronger”, before warning 2022: “I’m ready” (“I’m ready”).
