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born 1995 South Africa
Mapula Nomvula "Nomi" Kgoale (born 20 November 1995) is a South African soccer player who plays as a defender for SAFA Women's League club TS Galaxy Queens and the South Africa women's national team.
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It is extremely important to be mentally tough.
I own it because it gives me so much pride in being a woman in a space mostly deemed as a men's sport.
I’ve got something to do on this planet and whatever that purpose is keeps me going.
There is always something that feels unfulfilled when I wake up.
I demand more of myself and my teammates. I want to win things – this is where my teammates and I are supposed to show up. This is where we are supposed to show the world who we are, right?
Before achieving everything that we achieved, we set goals and said this is what we want at this time. And we achieved everything, every goal that was set.
I love the face beats, lipsticks, eyelashes – just everything about it. I love everything about it. You know what, Puma, let’s just end it there because I can just go on and on about Puma!
Barriers are only in the mind. If you truly want something, do whatever it takes. Invest in yourself if you’re not getting the support you desire.
When I talk about mental health, I’m not saying I wanted to kill myself. You get tired as a person, that’s why there is sick leave, and people go on vacations, I needed that.
I command and organise when needed. I also understand the need to encourage and push the team to stay on top of our game.
Oh, I love those people. They treat me like a human being – like a girl. Let me tell you when we go and do shoots, they just hire a whole makeup crew to pamper me and I love that.
There are many things that go on that people from the outside don’t understand, but as a person I understand myself, I know how I operate, I know when I need a break, I know when I’m having a breakdown, I know when my body says 'no' and when it says 'yes', so I have to listen to it.
Extremely difficult, I'm gonna be honest, we all know as athletes, it's very, very difficult to come back from an injury. For the most part, it knocks down the mental side of things but I had to be tough on myself and be like, you gotta get back into the game, that's what I love to do.
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