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Bantwana College NPC Football Club players promote sport equality

Young female football players voice their hopes to inspire other women to stand up against society's gender stereotypes.

October 31, 2022
Lonwabo Sangqu Less than a minute
DANNY PHILLIPS: Bantwana College NPC Football Club is a developing football club and we encourage young girls to play and improve their skills. As young women playing football, we get put down, they look down on us and they feel like we can't do as best as men. So we just encourage the young girls to try their best and to never look down on themselves.

Football has always been a male-dominated sport but through the years that has changed as women have shown that they too can be on par with these so-called male-dominated sports. Three young female football players from the Randpark Ridge based football club Bantwana College NPC Football Club hope that through their actions, other females will break away from society’s gender stereotypes.

The Randburg Sun spoke to Kayla Perreira, Keisha Botha, and Danny Phillips from Bantwana College NPC FC about gender equality in sports and this is what they said:

KEISHA BOTHA: As a female playing a male sport many people discriminate against us because we are females, but I feel like females can do anything they set their mind to do. When you play a sport, you don’t begin as a professional, you gain motivation and dedication and you put your mind to it if you really want it. I feel like when I play soccer, once I touch a ball, all my problems disappear. I really love the sport. So, continue playing soccer as females and don’t give up.
KAYLA PERREIRA: I just think that by me playing a so-called ‘man’s sport’, it proves to younger players who actually want to play the game that we are capable of engaging in this sport and prove to people in society that women can do exactly what guys are capable of doing as well.

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October 31, 2022
Lonwabo Sangqu Less than a minute

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