The international footballer Tabitha Chawinga is calling on Malawi’s football authorities to introduce safeguards to protect women from abuse at all levels of the game. Her opponents did not believe she was female because of her physical appearance and how well she played. The same thing happened a year later when she played for the Lilongwe women’s football team DD Sunshine – a move, she said, that was her first step into a professional football career. “We were participating in a Presidential Cup match and for our first game we travelled to Blantyre to play Blantyre Zero. And being born different is not the end of the world,” said Chawinga, whose sister Temwa also plays in China.

Source: The Guardian August 06, 2021 06:00 UTC