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Nigeria’s Oshoala: I’d get in trouble for playing football – I didn’t get to sleep at home

Barcelona captain Asisat Oshoala has opened up on the kind of life she had as a female footballer growing up in Africa, Nigeria precisely.

She explained that many never believed that a lady can make a career out of football because of the mentality they had about the game.

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Back in May, the Super Falcons captain became the first African female player to win the prestigious UEFA Champions League

Speaking to CNN, Oshoala said: “As an African girl child, they say things like, ‘Oh, you’re a girl. You’re not supposed to be playing football. You’re supposed to be at home, helping your mother’. They see soccer or football as a male-dominated game.

“Each time I [would] go to play football or something, I’m always in trouble. Sometimes, I don’t get to sleep at home. I had to go to my grandmother’s place to sleep at night. Some days my [mother] wouldn’t even give me money for food. Back then, it wasn’t the same. It was different, entirely different orientation.

“I made [my parents] believe that, okay, if they make young kids go after their dreams, there’s always something positive to come out of it. Today, I think they realise that. They’re now the ones who call me. They know my game even before I tell them!”

“When I was growing up, I never, personally, wore a jersey with a female player’s name on the back,” she explains. “When I go home to Nigeria, a lot of people have a Barcelona jersey with my name. When I see this, I’m just always smiling. Like, wow. It’s been quite the journey. Information Guide Nigeria

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“When I see these young girls in Lagos, when I go home with my foundation, I’m just so happy. Sometimes I just sit on the sideline and just start smiling. People’s dreams are actually coming to life. They are seeing the future. They’re seeing the possibility of becoming a professional soccer player. I’m really jealous because they have everything!

“The next five, 10, 15 years, it’s going to all be about women’s soccer because the men’s game, it’s like they’ve got everything already. You can see the fights now. They want the [European] Super League, they want this. They’re trying to see what they can bring in now because they’ve done everything already.

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“The money’s there, the TV rights is there, everything is there. Whatever you do now with the women’s game, it’s new, it’s new, it’s new – and people want to see something new.

“Women’s soccer is going to be big. Definitely you’re going to have some male players and women’s players on the same level plus minus. It’s very achievable. Trust me.” JAMB Result

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