Modise calls for PSL players to support women’s football
Banyana Banyana legend Portia Modise says Premier Socccer League (PSL) footballers need to come together and support women's football in the country.
Portia Modise (Pic Sydney Mahlangu/BackpagePix)
Modise believes men have the power to force authorities to work on establishing a professional league for women and to make it grow.
“What bothers me is the PSL guys and all the guys playing football they just watch us as women soccer players and say ‘this is not our battle the ladies need to fight their own battle, it is not our place to say anything’, that’s wrong, we are a nation and we need to push together for women’s football to be better,” Modise was quoted as saying by SABC.
“At the end of the day we would do the same for them, they can’t watch us and say ‘we will stand here get paid’, we want to have the same living as them, we are all representing the country. They must come on board.”
The South Africa Football Association (Safa) has announced that it plans to establish a professional women’s football league in the future.
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