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βI started playing football on the streets of Mushin at the age of 6 or 7 β Super Falcons star Rasheedat Ajibade
img>Super Falcons forward Rasheedat Ajibade has opened up about her tough childhood growing up in Mushin, Lagos.
In an interview with Stephen Akintayo, the 24-year-old footballer revealed that she started playing football as early as six or seven years old on the streets of Mushin.
According to her, the environment was rough and filled with violence, cult clashes and teenage struggles.
In her words:
βAt the age of six or seven, I started playing football on the street of Mushin in Lagosβ¦ It was a very crazy environment. Where Hausa and Igbo are fighting, When they start this riot, itβs like theyβre burning somebody in front of you. Itβs like theyβre shooting, and youβre hearing the bullets on top of your roof.β
She added that growing up there also meant witnessing cult activities, drug use, and even children becoming parents at a very young age.
βItβs an environment where you have young boys and girls, like at the age of 14, already into cults, with incisions on their heads, into drugsβ¦ 14-year-old girls, you see them being pregnant, becoming a mother at a very tender age.β
Ajibade, who now plays for AtlΓ©tico Madrid Femenino, has become one of Nigeriaβs brightest football stars.
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