UNPOS
United Nations Political Office for Somalia
The UN at 80: What Has It Achieved? | United Nations
- 01 December 2025
“I joined in 2019 because of a friend,” recounts Nathalie Sossoadouno, the team captain, her smile bright, her voice steady. At twenty-three, she already has a degree in English and is now studying IT. “Back then, women’s football wasn’t really taken seriously. The way people looked at us – the judg
She pauses, watching her players move through drills with quiet precision. “My twin sister and I held firm. But not everyone does. Some girls stop playing because the weight of other people’s judgment becomes too much. That’s a loss nobody talks about.”
On the pitch, she commands the training with calm authority. Her journey traces the slow, hard-won conquest of space for women in an environment never built for them. Every goal her players score is, in its own way, an act of defiance.