Meet the “Golden Lady” of Botswana Football
By: Laurie | February 13th, 2008
The most interesting part of this article? When I started reading it, I thought Tshepho Mphoeng was being honored for her contributions to women’s football in Botswana. Turns out that’s not the case. Apparently she worked her way up from being just another fan to holding positions of power in the (read: male) Botswanan Football Associaation.
Her love for football started while she was a student at Moeng College in the 1970s. “I was a softball player in my student days. It was whilst training as a nurse at the National Health Institute in Gaborone that I developed a love for football. About 12 players who were stars while I was at Moeng joined Township Rollers. I found myself cheering them nearly every weekend. …
When she completed her nursing studies in 1982, Mphoeng was posted to Selibe Phikwe where Tebro Onkabetse, who was running football affairs in Phikwe asked her to help run the Phikwe Regional Association. …
Mphoeng’s football star continued to rise until she became a member of the Botswana Football Association National Executive Committee in 2000 at the recommendation of Onkabetse. At the time, she was chairperson of the Phikwe Region. She has been on the BFA NEC since then and was Phikwe chairperson until she was transferred to Serowe in 2005.
And now she’s one of fifty in Botswana being honored by the CAF.
Can you imagine this happening in the US?
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