Barbra Banda

"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."

"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."