Banyana coach Ellis asks government to help make pro women's football happen: South Africa needs a professional women’s football league, Banyana Banyana coach Desiree Ellis said after her team bowed out of the 2023 Women’s World Cup with another brave,…
Ellis would like to see the national team players sponsored to the extent that they don’t have to work, and more money in the Super League so its clubs there can pay better salaries.
“We still have players like Kaylin [Swart, Banyana’s goalkeeper] having a nine-to-five job and then having to go and train in the evening.“Otherwise we’ll come back in four years’ time and go through the same thing, and everyone will say how well we played. Because we could have gone further.
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