[4] These were known as novelty games involving young ladies playing against middle aged men that were not considered athletically fit."
[7] Multiple efforts were made in the 1960s to start women's football clubs in South Africa, but they proved fleeting.
In 1998, CAF introduced an official African Women's Championship, following two unofficial versions of the tournament earlier in the 1990s; host country Nigeria won, beginning a stretch of five consecutive titles in the event.
Her spectacular playing in the 1999 Women's World Cup won her a college scholarship to a school in Tennessee.
She is considered to be a symbol of Nigerian women's success in football and to have put African soccer on the global map.