Nomvula Kgoale

"Personally, it has been talked about for so many years that womens football needs to be professionalised, but at this point, I am going to reserve my comments and will only believe it when I see it practically happening. Ive heard it mentioned so many times that I dont believe anything they say about the intention anymore."

"Indeed, as female footballers, we do value education highly because its simple: We are not paid enough to make a living out of the game, whereas our male counterparts can play, say, for 10 or even five years and make enough money in order to make a living if they use their funds properly. So, there is a huge gap in terms of we know that we are not being paid well and the money that we make cannot sustain us for the rest of our lives or for a longer period of time, so we opt to navigate towards education. That is so that we are able to secure full-time jobs on the side, or even after football. We need that more than our male counterparts."

"Oh, I love those people. They treat me like a human being – like a girl. Let me tell you when we go and do shoots, they just hire a whole makeup crew to pamper me and I love that."

"I own it because it gives me so much pride in being a woman in a space mostly deemed as a mens sport."

"When I talk about mental health, I’m not saying I wanted to kill myself. You get tired as a person, that’s why there is sick leave, and people go on vacations, I needed that."

"Extremely difficult, Im gonna be honest, we all know as athletes, its very, very difficult to come back from an injury. For the most part, it knocks down the mental side of things but I had to be tough on myself and be like, you gotta get back into the game, thats what I love to do."