Portia Modise

Portia Modise (born 20 June 1983) is a South African footballer who was named Player of the Championship at the 2006 Women's African Football Championship. She represented the South Africa national team at the 2012 London Olympics. She became the first African player to score 100 international goals.

Quotes

• "It's about time now we get the recognition and we get the gender equality that we deserve."
• "It's not about disrespecting the country, it's about the country helping us."
  • Banyana Banyana demands higher pay: 'We deserve gender equality' by Amy Fraser July 3, 2023. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
• "We are forgetting that without fans there’ll never be football and these players will never get paid."
• "What causes emptiness in stadium it is that people don’t respect fans anymore – we are losing it."
  • PORTIA MODISE SAYS KAIZER CHIEFS FANS SHOULD BE PATIENT WITH GIOVANNI SOLINAS by Ofentse Ratsie. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
• "Women are being discovered, women are being celebrated, a lot of people are starting to know about these women that are doing wonders in our country."
  • PORTIA MODISE PRAISES BEING RECOGNISED ON THE GSPORT STAGE by Nonto Nothana. August 18, 2021. Retrieved 04/11/2023.
• "If people didn't love me when I was scoring goals, putting South Africa on the map, why would I expect them to love me because I tell the truth about women's football?"
• "I didn't wake up to choose to be gay. I didn't want to be insulted every day when I walk in the street. I didn't choose this, but I was born like this."
• "There is nothing wrong in being a lesbian; it is how you project yourself in public places. You are born with it and you won't just change it because somebody says you should do it."
• "We are there to do what we love, to share the game, to motivate other women out there and to make sure that if they want to play the game, there are people like us fighting for them."
• "When you are Black, it comes with disadvantages, because you need to really prove yourself."
• "It didn't matter where I came from, I was talented."
• "You get to realise that the little love you know is not enough for the person that you're with."
  • Meet Portia Modise, Africa's highest goalscorer and defiant gay icon by Leonard Solms. June 28, 2021. Retrieved 04/11/2023.