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”My name is Asisat. You can call me Zee.⠀⠀⠀⠀
I started playing football with my friends in school. My parents were always complaining that I would come late after school hours and all that.” (1/7)
“A proper team saw me and liked me and asking me to play for them. I was like: “No, I don’t want to play professional football. It’s just for fun”. They said: “No, you have the quality to come. You train, if you work hard, you can gain something from it.” (2/7)
“I said: “No. My parents are not going to allow me to do that, so don’t even bother trying.” (3/7)
“When I was growing up, my parents didn’t support me. There were difficult moments. My mother wanted to beat me, my father wanted to beat me. They’d say “We’re not going to give you food today because you went to play football. You are supposed to be doing other things.” (4/7)
“There were several times I sat down alone, thinking & asking myself if I was doing the right thing, if I was making the right decision, if I was going the wrong way. Imagine wasting two or three years of your life?” (5/7)
“My parents would say to me “if you had used these three years in school, you would have almost been done by now. You would have a degree”. There were moments I sat down alone, there were moments I cried sometimes, because I just felt like: “I don’t want to fail.” (6/7)
“Now, my family are my biggest supporters. Especially my parents. Today, I’m playing at the world stage. I played at the @FIFAWWC, @UWCL… it’s emotional for me. I’m just happy everything worked out fine.” @AsisatOshoala ⠀(7/7)
