Barbra Banda
Barbra Banda (born 20 March 2000) is a Zambian professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club Orlando Pride and captains the Zambia national team.
Quotes
[edit]- I started playing football when I was a very tender age, it was somewhere between 6 or 7 years old.
- Actually by the time I started, I used to play with boys because the academy that I was playing for didn't have the lady's team.
- I just had to get my boots (from home) without them knowing that I'm going to play football because if they know this they won't allow me
- I would throw them (boots) out the window, then go out the door, and they'd think maybe she's just going outside, and then I'd go round to get them.
- Ex-boxer Banda packing a punch for Shanghai; By China Daily, retrieved on 2020-09-01
- It means a lot for everyone and the country at large. It is encouraging for women, not even the men’s team qualified… we made history.
- The way I used to play in Zambia and how I played in Europe was quite different.
- Each team you play, [it] offers good competition. [Playing in Spain] helped me to improve in so many ways.
- He used to encourage me to practise… he was also in football. He encouraged me by telling me if that is my talent or if I liked it, I should concentrate on it.
- Barbra Banda: "We have something within us"24 July 2021
