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Farai Shawn Matiashe and Tafadzwa Ufumeli

Zimbabwe’s girl footballers kick back against teen pregnancy

When Trish Muparadzi started playing football at the age of nine she had to join the boys’ team, the only squad at her primary school in a parched rural area outside Kwekwe in central Zimbabwe.

At first, the coach refused to play her. But one day, during a friendly match, the team ran out of substitutes.

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