“I feel like as a Nigeria or any other African team, they underestimate our football ability and they kind of just base us off strength and speed. It’s always ‘oh they are strong and powerful’, but we can also play,” Echegini told beats and rhymes fc.
“I feel like a lot of times, teams don’t expect that, and they’ll be surprised when we start playing around them. I prefer if they don expect it because it makes things easier for us, but whenever I hear people talking about Nigeria, it’s always ‘strong’ or ‘fast’, and I’m like, “we’re not just that, you know?”
“A lot of us grew up playing the exact same way as those England girls or the Dutch girls, so it’s kind of funny when people say we’re just speed and strength. We went through the same process growing up,.we just chose to represent the Nigerian team.
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