Smeda fancies her chances at Rio Games

"I came on as a substitute in the last five minutes. It was cold and rainy and the field was wet. There wasn't a big crowd and I wasn't really nervous, just very excited. I remember the coach telling me 'get up, you're going on, this is your weather', because I'm f...

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Published inCape times (South Africa)
Main Author Moses, Liam
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cape Town Independent Online (South Africa) 07.04.2016
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Smeda, Leandra
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Summary:"I came on as a substitute in the last five minutes. It was cold and rainy and the field was wet. There wasn't a big crowd and I wasn't really nervous, just very excited. I remember the coach telling me 'get up, you're going on, this is your weather', because I'm from the Western Cape," [Leandra Smeda] said. "When I started there were only boys' teams. They only got girls' teams at a later stage when the clubs were told to start ladies' teams as well. That's when I started playing with girls, but women's football wasn't popular so there weren't many teams. The high school I attended didn't have a girls' team at first so I used to play for another school's team."