Bonang Otlhagile

“My dream is to be the coach and I think I am on the right track. I also want to encourage young females to play football as it is the next big thing.”

“I will do my best at this year’s COSAFA and hope to retire on a high note by winning it.”

“I have been playing for over a decade in the national team and also as the skipper. I’m very satisfied having made sacrifices, good efforts, mistakes and wise choices, and I want to thank Batswana who have been supportive.”

“It is time to give younger players an opportunity to play in the national team.”

“Everything has its own timing, we are going to prepare for Morocco the same way we prepared for Zimbabwe, we are here because we worked really hard and we deserve to be there at Morocco.”

“We are so happy as this is for the time happening and excitement need to be of great magnitude, we thank everyone who supported us, everyone who rallied behind us and most importantly I would like to thank God and the technical team, if it wasn’t them, we would not be here.”

“You don’t have to give up football to be a mother”