“I’d say that my father and my Grandad are the most emotional ones in the family. They are the ones that I could hear the most out there.” That last sentence brings a smile to the faces of the two men in question. When Emilie is on the pitch, they kick every ball along with her, regardless of whether she is representing club or country.
Last summer, Emilie joined Bayern Munich, who play 80 kilometres away from the Bernhardts’ home town of Ingolstadt. That makes for a long round trip every day for Emilie’s training sessions. “There are weeks when we have to drive there and back six times, but we’ll just carry on doing that until Emilie’s taken her high-school exams,” her father explains.