BBC Sport profiles Orlando Pride and Zambia forward Barbra Banda, one of five nominees for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2024 award.
Barbra Banda was already a global superstar after the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and the 2023 World Cup, but her profile hit new heights when Orlando Pride paid Chinese club Shanghai Shengli $740,000 to gain her signature in March.
Despite joining Orlando Pride late on in the NWSL regular season, the clinical striker has netted 13 goals and sits second in the league's top scoring chart. The Zambia captain scored four goals at Paris 2024, including a first-half hat-trick against Australia, to become Africa's all time top scorer - male or female - in Olympic football history with 10 goals."Putting on my Zambian shirt, it's very important for me. When we qualified to the Olympics that was so exciting, for the second time.
"She is a legend and she's a very good person with the way we interact, the way she took me as a younger sister, it's very awesome.""Honestly to me, about the transfer fee, that didn't even get to me. But what I wanted was to get here and get started with the work because I felt like I needed something to challenge myself in a new country.
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