Top 8 Barbra Banda Quotes

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.

Each team you play, [it] offers good competition. [Playing in Spain] helped me to improve in so many ways.

The way I used to play in Zambia and how I played in Europe was quite different.

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.

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.

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

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 started playing football when I was a very tender age, it was somewhere between 6 or 7 years old.