I chose to put my proceeds towards getting more women involved in leadership roles in football, which I think is important, especially as a woman in football myself. Just having coaches or people working on technical staff, even physios… just having women in that environment alongside men is important.

The players will function well if they have a female coach because she will be like a mother to them.

I think every female footballer can relate to a woman working in a male-dominated area and championing it. We need to make sure that we support each other.

I think it’s also important to show that it doesn’t have to be a male terrain completely, if there are competent women, we should give them positions on merit. But don’t look down on somebody and say, she is a woman, she can’t do it or he’s a man, he can’t do it. That would be a wrong attitude.

I see more women coming up, and it’s encouraging to see more federations enrolling the services of female coaches compared to my time when I was an athlete. There's a big difference in how we female coaches handle athletes. When you have more female coaches, you also have people who safeguard athletes from abuse. Sometimes we assume the roles of mothers, and when a mother sits down with their kids, it is sometimes easier for them to speak out

There’s more female coaches in the game now too which is healthy.

The number one reason many female coaches are not encouraged to stick with this career is the lack of support, and what I mean by support is about the Federation having your back. There are not many female coaches. There are about 10 of us in the country that I know of right now, but we are not being encouraged and supported. We need exposure. We can only get better when we are exposed, but we are not getting that from the Federation. A lot of the time you see a team consisting of four male coaches and one female coach, or none at all; where is the gender equity? These are some of the reasons women give up on coaching, because we are not getting the right support.

It is very important for female footballers that we are role models.

Let's talk about football and women. … Gerhard, why don't you start?

To force a change sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you’re worth – rather than what your employer is paying you. We’re not scared. To move the women’s game ahead we need to do what’s necessary. I feel other national teams are looking at us for that guidance.

We have to do exercises to normalize the fact that there is a football, which is played by men and women, and above all to report a lot because it is difficult for me to find information about when it is played. The day I get an interview and can talking about football is that we have achieved it (the normalization of women’s football).

We have to see how we can take women's football to the next level. But it can't just be about the money either, otherwise football loses its values.

I also think we're seeing good competition in women's football now: you start to see a lot of men's teams creating a women's team because it brings value to have one.

When it comes to the issue of welfare packages, billions of naira will be spent on men but when it comes to females, its peanuts and that generates noise. Personally to me, I don’t like that idea because football is football no matter who plays it. If it is one global sports body (FIFA) that handles both female and male football tournaments, why give preference to men.