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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>As the Africa Cup of Nations draws to a close with Senegal meeting Egypt in the final on Sunday, FRANCE 24 reports from the Rails Football Academy for girls in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde, where most of the football has taken place.The young footballers dream of glory \u2013 but have to fight against prejudice and lack of means. <\/b>
\nOn a rugged, gravelly patch of earth in Elig Edzoa, a working-class district of Yaounde, 14-year-old Leslie starts performing skills \u2013 juggling the ball with her foot, soon attracting a crowd of kids.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re soon playing the toro passing game. It was right here in this part of Yaounde \u2013 nicknamed Rails because of the tracks crossing it \u2013 that former Cameroon star Ga\u00eblle Enganamouit set up the country\u2019s first women\u2019s football academy.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s there that Leslie\u2019s skills have gone from strength to strength. \u201cI was born and raised at the Rails; I started playing football on those streets,\u201d Enganamouit said on the phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time I go back to Cameroon, I go back to the old neighbourhood; I had to give something back to my young sisters. The academy also shows that it\u2019s not a bad neighborhood \u2013 that good things happen there. \u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve never seen a good player come out of beautiful pitches\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Leslie is one of many flourishing talents who joined the academy. She goes to training twice a week \u2013 but that doesn\u2019t stop her playing football in her spare time, using every opportunity she can get to hone her skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always ready to play \u2013 just like that,\u201d she said, adding that she prefers to wear football outfits than to dress \u201clike a girl\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven when she was little, you could see she preferred footballs to dolls,\u201d said Leslie\u2019s father Jacques Manyo Bayard, pointing to two stones near the school that kids still use as goalposts.<\/p>\n

Leslie is naturally a bit shy, but she lights up when playing at the Rails Football Academy grounds \u2013 a bumpy rectangle, with shops on one side, the rail tracks on the other, and no sidelines or nets in the goals.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult terrain to play on \u2013 but one where Enganamouit herself flourished. \u201cThe thing about Africa is you\u2019re playing on difficult terrain \u2013 so if you can dribble and make good passes here, as soon as you play on grass you\u2019ll find it easy,\u201d Enganamouit said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a player really flourished, you\u2019ve got to look at where he or she comes from if you want to understand how it happened,\u201d added Angeline Marie Christine Gondio A Mbang, the academy\u2019s technical director and first team coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a good player come out of beautiful pitches,\u201d she continued. Angeline runs the training sessions with an iron fist.<\/p>\n

The girls follow her orders as soon as she gives them \u2013 whether it\u2019s a movement exercise, passing or shooting. She encourages all her players to work hard, instilling in them the virtue of discipline.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey know what to do as soon as they turn up to play,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey get dressed, they wait for me, they start juggling the ball to warm up. I teach them the skills I know.<\/p>\n

When you have these young girls in front of you, you\u2019ve got to show them the right way to do it. You can\u2019t develop if you\u2019re not disciplined. \u201d Angeline may be an iron fist at the ground, but she wears a velvet glove off the pitch.<\/p>\n

She is close to the players and encourages them to pursue their dream; to \u201cbe like Ga\u00eblle\u201d and make a career in women\u2019s football. \u201cI wanted to join Ga\u00eblle\u2019s academy because I\u2019ve always been a fan of her as a player,\u201d said 19-year-old Beatrice Ngo Nlend, who played at the academy since it opened in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really dream of a playing career \u2013 I love football so much that I don\u2019t have the words to express it; this means everything to me right now.<\/p>\n

\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want a career that lasts as long as possible; I want to win the Ballon d\u2019Or, whether it\u2019s the African one or the world one \u2013 I want to prove that I can really do something in women\u2019s football,\u201d said Michelle Ndjomo, 17, who envisions playing for PSG like another of her idols, Kadidiatou Diani.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the academy, I hope to reach the same level as the founder and win trophies; I\u2019d also like to create a school like her to train players,\u201d said M\u00e9lanie Eboa, also aged 17.<\/p>\n

Families\u2019 scepticism<\/b><\/p>\n

Having been passionate about football since they were small, all of the girls have had to fight against the prejudice that football is a sport exclusively for men, unsuitable for women.<\/p>\n

They had to convince their families before joining the academy. \u201cMy mother was reluctant. She said that it distorted girls\u2019 bodies and was afraid I wouldn\u2019t be able to start a family afterwards.<\/p>\n

I told her football is my passion. I can play the sport and have children afterwards. I pointed to the example of the American player Alex Morgan, who has a husband and a daughter,\u201d said Michelle Ndjomo.<\/p>\n

Leslie\u2019s father, a construction technician, was also sceptical for some time about his daughter\u2019s all-consuming passion for football. \u201cI don\u2019t like football; I think it\u2019s not for women.<\/p>\n

A girl should go to school and become a doctor or a lawyer,\u201d he said. \u201cI was really hostile, but my cousin, my wife and my sister all told me to let her get on with it, because it\u2019s in her blood.<\/p>\n

\u201d Now Leslie\u2019s father is fully supportive of his daughter. He attends her matches as much as he can and gives it his all \u2013 cheering her on even in training.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all thanks to the Rails Academy: \u201cThere were several factors that motivated me. To start with, it\u2019s close, so we didn\u2019t have to pay for transport.<\/p>\n

Secondly, the academy was set up by a local player, so we\u2019re confident that she will teach them the best way to play football. \u201cI prefer her to be at the academy than to play wherever with boys,\u201d Leslie\u2019s father concluded.<\/p>\n

Enganamouit hopes her academy will prevent young girls from experiencing the same difficulties she went through when starting out. She remembered sometimes feeling embarrassed in the male world of football \u2013 for example, when there weren\u2019t football jerseys, so players on one of the two teams went shirtless to differentiate themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never feel completely comfortable,\u201d Enganmouit said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the goal is to give the girls a framework so they can express themselves to each other.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m very happy to see them together. I wasn\u2019t surrounded by other women like that. \u201d Leslie also experienced difficulties playing with boys. \u201cThe girls are more disciplined,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boys here push you to win \u2013 and you want to cry but you can\u2019t. So we try to work on our physiques in training.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere in the neighbourhood the girls play better than the boys \u2013 we work harder than them; we want to be world champions!\u201d Enganamouit and Angeline are well aware that women\u2019s football has evolved since they started out.<\/p>\n

International bodies like FIFA and the Confederation of African Football have ploughed money into it to boost its profile over recent years. \u201cThe Cameroonian authorities took a real interest after our first participation in the World Cup\u201d in 2015, Enganamouit pointed out.<\/p>\n

Consequently, the girls at the Rails Football Academy benefit from football shirts and training equipment as well as funds to cover transport to matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t get any of that; we played for fun, with no money,\u201d Angeline said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe try to explain to the girls that they have a great opportunity.<\/p>\n

All the girls hope to enjoy the same opportunity their team captain flourished from \u2013 as her career took her to the US, the El Dorado of women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n

But this highlights that the Rails Football Academy depends on Ga\u00eblle Enganamouit\u2019s personal funds. Indeed, there is no shortage of projects at the academy.<\/p>\n

One is the creation of a boarding school so girls can devote themselves equally to football and school \u2013 just as they do at Cameroon\u2019s Brasseries football academy for boys.<\/p>\n

The two women behind Rails also hope that the Africa Cup of Nations taking place in Cameroon will benefit local women\u2019s football. They hope to be able to use some training grounds renovated for the occasion \u2013 such as that of the nearby Ahmadou Ahidjo stadium.<\/p>\n

This would allow talented young girls from the academy to hone their skills on manicured lawns far from the rough surfaces of their local neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

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