Selfies, goals and cheers at South Africa’s grannies World Cup

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Tazinian, South Africa: Embellt Nonhalana tied his silver keys when his coach encouraged her knees, hard backs and hard breathing in the dressing room north of South Africa.

At the age of 63, wearing jersey number 10 and in brown hair games, seven grandmothers were away from your ordinary footballer when he stepped into the field for his first international tournament.

“I feel like a superstar,” Noon shaking and showing a missing tooth. “They call me a round machine.”

His team, Voka Switto, is from the famous Swito town outside Johannesburg.

It joined Africa and more than a dozen others this week to compete this week at the Greens International Football Tournament in the northern province of Lampopo.

The four -day “Greenz World Cup” was held at a stadium in which the mountainous sights were clear.

The 30 -minute games between teams from the United States, France and Togo were played in two parts.

The 62 -year -old South African Devika Ramsar, who is the mother of a grandmother of two and five, and the mother of five grandmother, said, “It’s all about active aging.

Until this week, Liverpool fans never stepped on a football pitch.

Kenya’s striker Edna Cheroyet had only two months to learn the “long list” of football rules before Friday, when she scored its only goal.

He took selfies to remember his first trip abroad and send his grandchildren to the grandchildren.

Adoring the blue head rap of his filled hair covering his filled hair, saying, “I am feeling fruitful. It is the lighter.

At the age of 52, he is a young man in his team, with the oldest player 87. The idea of ​​the tournament was born in 2007 as a way to improve the health of local women, 57 -year -old founder Rebecca Nattsansoi said, called Mama Baka.

It came out of a sense of personal challenge after the diagnosis of cancer, which once binds him to a wheelchair.

“Older women need to come together and enjoy outside the house,” he told AFP. We are ignored. “

She expects to host the next tournament in Kenya.

According to official statistics, about 40 % of South Africa’s children live in households headed by their grandparents.

The main reason for this is due to poverty, cultural traditions and urban migration.

Nutsansi said, but the grandmother should not be responsible for the raising of her grandchildren.

“Our time is to enjoy and rest,” he said. “I will die knowing that I have done something.”

Chris Matson, 67, took the advice and traveled from the United States to “enjoy every second of the tournament”.

“When I was very little to do that a little bit, I didn’t play,” said the American New England Breakers team’s team.

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The team doctors, however, were earning them.

South African team Medical Diana Moula said the pain and suffering of the elderly players need permanent scrutiny.

Some members of the WikiGola Wiciegola team had to monitor for hypertension before each game.

Wakigola Wicygola means “grandmother’s grandmother” in the local tongue and is approved by the national men’s team, Bafana Bafana or “Boys Boys”.

But the team disagreed with Moula’s diagnosis and laughed at Delhi. “We’re fit!” , Captain Thalama Nagobini said, “A packet of corn flour balanced on his head that players received after the game.”

“It’s not about winning or losing,” he said. It is important that we showed, enjoyed and tried our best. “

Nonahlana’s goal was more expensive. He said it was within a dream of making it big in football.

He added, “It’s never too late to achieve your childhood dreams. I don’t think anything stops me.”

In a scene of professional football filming, crowds broke out when teams entered the stadium’s hands and played with young masks and national anthems.