Last year, she was still battling cancer. Now referee Eva (21) is whistling again: “My muscles were gone, I had to come back from scratch”

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Last year, she was still battling cancer. Now referee Eva (21) is whistling again: “My muscles were gone, I had to come back from scratch”

“In my darkest days, my football friends helped me to a bright spot,” says Eva Coussement from Vilvoorde. At twenty, a cancer diagnosis turned this female ref's life upside down. Meanwhile, she goes through life whistling again, literally and figuratively. Here she explains how she was able to recover. “Once, I really shed bitter tears.”