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Mercy Akide Quotes

born 1975 Nigeria

Mercy Joy Akide Udoh (née Akide; born 26 August 1975) is a former Nigerian football player

Nigeria
Women

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"I am excited that other Nigerians have done it again and I hope that we will see more of this in future."

We told ourselves that we were not just Nigerians but Africans and that we wanted to make the continent proud.

For me, there was no substitute for working hard on my own, long after training.

The idea was to leave a legacy behind. We prayed and worked extremely hard in training.

“I feel blessed to have been the first woman to win this award back then in 1999."

On our legacies because we were their role models. We did not bring the trophy home but that (qualifying for the Olympics) was a trophy for us.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mercy Akide (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.