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Esse Akida
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“I was drawn to the football pitch when I was eight years old. A journey inspired by my brothers who would allow me to go and watch them play football”
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“There are things you are going to hear and face that might demolarize your efforts but take each one of them with a positive mindset and let them be a motivation to the things you want to achieve.”
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“Keep going and keep believing that your continuous work will one day pay. Blessed new week.”
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“There, I played football and won multiple awards, including the Most Valuable Player title in 2011 and 2012”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“In 2012, I competed in the Unicef/Moyas women's league for Matuu FC, a National Youth Talent Academy, where I finished second in the Golden Boot with 37 goals while winning the league with the same club”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“My brothers, who let me watch them play football, inspired this adventure. I was only permitted to use the ball after they had finished”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I never skipped a football practice. I am a good player and my mother came to watch me play once and has been by my side ever since. She is my biggest admirer”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“In my neighbourhood, girls were not permitted to play football or even spend extended periods outside the home”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“Gender equality, in my opinion, is essential to releasing women from all forms of culturally-inspired discrimination and oppression”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I was one of six players who had joined the organisation at its inception. I actively represented MTG in a variety of tournaments both within and outside of Kilifi and Kwale counties, including the Kenya Premier League, in which MTG participated in 2014. When I learned about MTG, a sport for development organisation that gives girls and young women in Kilifi more power, my hope was reawakened”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I thought by performing well, I would create more space for girls to play football, so I would feel confident when I left the field. There were over 9,000 girls playing football in Kilifi and Kwale Counties in 2017 compared to just 200 when I joined MTG.”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I am happy that girls are now encouraged to play football, attend school and pursue careers in our society. My mother's generation did not experience this. She had to work and take care of the home, and occasionally, they had to force her into marriage with an older man”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I was all too aware that there was life after football and that many football players found it difficult to adjust to life without education.”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I drew inspiration from great Kenyan footballers who successfully struck a balance between studies and sports, including former AFC Leopards strikers JJ Masiga and Gor Mahia offensive midfielder William Obwaka who were both medical doctors”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I hold the record as KeMU's all-time top score with 50 goals. I scored nine goals to scoop the Golden Boot as the top scorer at the 2015 East Africa University Games (EAUG) held at Uganda Christian University (UCU)”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I won the Golden Boot and finished as the tournament's top scorer with nine goals. Meru County emerged victorious in the women's football competition following a 5-4 victory over a highly skilled Laikipia County on penalties”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“My participation in the Sakata Ball tournament in 2010 led to my later selection to the National Youth Talent Academy”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I signed a two-year contract with PAOK in 2021 and then extended it for a year. Thankfully, I excelled with the Thessaloniki team during the final stretch of my contract”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I won the Golden Boot during my tenure in Greece, scoring an incredible 17 goals in just 18 games”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I participated in the Rio Olympics qualifying match in 2015, where Kenya defeated Botswana 2-1 overall. We ultimately lost the two-leg match to Banyana Banyana of South Africa, 2-0 overall”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“My three goals against Benfica Portugal Women in the opening game helped the Kenya Harambee Starlets defeat their opponent 3-0. I scored two goals for my team in our 3-1 victory over Española in our second match.”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I will always treasure the match against Algeria when I came off the bench in the away game in Algiers and was credited with two assists that gave my team, Starlets hopes for the Awcon in a 2-2 draw. I still remember it very well.”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“In my free time, I like to watch movies and go out with friends. I rarely attend classes or the pitch. I watch and enjoy movies of all genres—horror, action, romance, television shows, you name it. I am not that picky.”
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Recorded in: How Akida brushed aside stereotype to rise in women footballThe Star(19 September 2024 )
“I don't know where the term rebel comes from.”
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Recorded in: Esse Akida: I'm no rebelMozzart Sport(October 03,2022)
“I'm always ready to represent my country when needed”
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Recorded in: Esse Akida: I'm no rebelMozzart Sport(October 03,2022)
“There's no greater honor than representing your own country of birth”
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Recorded in: Esse Akida: I'm no rebelMozzart Sport(October 03,2022)
“I was always looking forward to being called back”
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Recorded in: Esse Akida: I'm no rebelMozzart Sport(October 03,2022)
“I arrived in Europe when I knew what I wanted”
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Recorded in: Esse Akida: I'm no rebelMozzart Sport(October 03,2022)
“I would urge upcoming players to have goals and be true to themselves for them to be successful in the game”
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Recorded in: Esse Akida: I'm no rebelMozzart Sport(October 03,2022)
“As a player, my work is to listen to what the coach tells me”
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Recorded in: Esse Akida: I'm no rebelMozzart Sport(October 03,2022)
“I think it's also the discipline in me that allows me to play in such a demanding environment”
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Recorded in: Esse Akida: I'm no rebelMozzart Sport(October 03,2022)
“I don't want to get into the politics of football”
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Recorded in: Esse Akida: I'm no rebelMozzart Sport(October 03,2022)
“The youth should take education very seriously”
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Recorded in: Esse Akida: I'm no rebelMozzart Sport(October 03,2022)
“I am delighted to be back and of course being recalled means that my services are still needed. I am proud to be here with the girls and this is a chance that everyone would love, to represent their country”
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Recorded in: Akida delighted with Harambee Starlets return, thirsts for WAFCON ticketCapital FM Kenya(September 19,2023)
“I have trained with them for a day and it has been a great venture. I am enjoying every moment of it of course with some of the new girls, some young players and we have interacted really well. The vibes are very positive”
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Recorded in: Akida delighted with Harambee Starlets return, thirsts for WAFCON ticketCapital FM Kenya(September 19,2023)
“It has been a good experience (playing in the Champions League). It is always a tough and challenging experience but definitely one where you learn and experience new things. I am ready to replicate that back here home and help the team”
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Recorded in: Akida delighted with Harambee Starlets return, thirsts for WAFCON ticketCapital FM Kenya(September 19,2023)
“We have trained very well and prepared adequately though some of us have had a shorter time. But I believe we are up to the task. I can’t wait and I am looking forward to a good performance and a ticket to the next round”
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Recorded in: Akida delighted with Harambee Starlets return, thirsts for WAFCON ticketCapital FM Kenya(September 19,2023)
“Of course we want to qualify and that is why I am here. I am looking forward and hoping for the best. Cameroon is a team just like any other and I can’t wait to face them. The game will be decided by each of the two 90 minutes”
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Recorded in: Akida delighted with Harambee Starlets return, thirsts for WAFCON ticketCapital FM Kenya(September 19,2023)
“I am at an age where my dream is paying so I will not say I want to play in Spain or England, I want to play where I will get resources and get paid well”
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Recorded in: Forget England and Spain, I want to play where I will make money’ - Akida reveals her motivationPulse Sport Kenya( June 06,2023)
“At my age, I am looking at what I will get rather than what I will win or whom I am playing against.”
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Recorded in: Forget England and Spain, I want to play where I will make money’ - Akida reveals her motivationPulse Sport Kenya( June 06,2023)
“Right now, I am enjoying football even more because I am doing what I love and it is paying me. I have also discovered myself, right now I have a purpose, goals and objectives. When I was young, I was just playing without a purpose.”
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Recorded in: Forget England and Spain, I want to play where I will make money’ - Akida reveals her motivationPulse Sport Kenya( June 06,2023)
“It’s difficult to balance sports and education. I have had a very difficult time. I was to graduate around 2016, 2017 but I had to postpone it and ended up graduating in absentia because I am chasing this dream”
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Recorded in: Forget England and Spain, I want to play where I will make money’ - Akida reveals her motivationPulse Sport Kenya( June 06,2023)
“I appreciate my parents made it happen. KEMU tried to build a women’s team. I had to transfer from Mombasa campus to Meru because I wanted to be actively playing”
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Recorded in: Forget England and Spain, I want to play where I will make money’ - Akida reveals her motivationPulse Sport Kenya( June 06,2023)
“It is never easy out there, you have to adapt to climatic changes, culture and food”
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Recorded in: Harambee Starlets striker Esse Akida reveals what Israelis did to her that nearly saw her quit footballPulse Sport Kenya( July 19,2023)
“Being my first time abroad, I saw things from a different perspective. I saw things like racism that football players over there face. It was not easy but I had to learn through it”
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Recorded in: Harambee Starlets striker Esse Akida reveals what Israelis did to her that nearly saw her quit footballPulse Sport Kenya( July 19,2023)
“I experienced that (racism) so bad but when you’re new to these people and they don’t know what you can give, they tend to frustrate you to bring you down but I thank God that I managed.”
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Recorded in: Harambee Starlets striker Esse Akida reveals what Israelis did to her that nearly saw her quit footballPulse Sport Kenya( July 19,2023)
“It wasn’t easy, I underwent one or two challenges which I do not want to mention but the normal ones you could say are abuses, the coach could prefer someone else over you but I went through them because I was determined, I knew I went there for a certain goal”
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Recorded in: Harambee Starlets striker Esse Akida reveals what Israelis did to her that nearly saw her quit footballPulse Sport Kenya( July 19,2023)
“I was almost giving up but the people I would share things with would be like; ‘This is what happens out there, be strong.’ I thank God it was not that bad but at some point, there is this incident that happened that broke my heart so much”
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Recorded in: Harambee Starlets striker Esse Akida reveals what Israelis did to her that nearly saw her quit footballPulse Sport Kenya( July 19,2023)
“There was this American that had joined the team and my club manager asked me to leave the room for that lady to come in. It broke my heart because as a player, I felt wherever they wanted me to go and stay wasn’t suitable but I took it in and maneuvered”
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Recorded in: Harambee Starlets striker Esse Akida reveals what Israelis did to her that nearly saw her quit footballPulse Sport Kenya( July 19,2023)
“My first target in this team is to see to it that I get regular playing time and then secondly, I want to win the league title. It has been my dream always to win a title and with Besiktas, we have a chance. With that, we will qualify for the Champions League and this will be a dream come true for me”
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Recorded in: Akida eyes Champions League with BesiktasCapital FM Kenya(February 20,2020)