South Sudan has big ambitions for women’s football
ISIFU WIRFENGLA THE youngest country in Africa has a grand plan to deliver one of the best women’s sides on the continent and, in the process, empower girls to take part in the sport equally and freely. When South Sudan became an independent state 10 years ago, its people had myriad hopes as they would be the ones to determine the form, content and destiny of their hard-won new country. Some women and girls, endowed with football skills but stuck in the cobwebs of patriarchy, looked to the future with optimism. A decade later, that route to the football glory…