Zainab Alema veut devenir la première femme noire Musulmane à jouer au rugby pour l'Angleterre
Posté : 16 juillet 2023 09:08
Zainab 'Zee' Alema : Cette mère de trois enfants veut être la première femme noire musulmane à jouer au rugby pour l’Angleterre
Zainab Alema est prête à faire de nombreux sacrifices pour devenir la première femme musulmane noire à jouer au rugby pour l'Angleterre. Découvrez le portrait bouleversant de cette femme qui va tout faire pour réaliser son rêve tout en continuant à pratiquer sa foi.
Read about the Londoner who quit nursing, and defied cultural expectations, in order to pursue her dream of playing for England.
"Rugby is a man’s sport. Rugby is an elite sport. Why do you want to play rugby? Why don't you play tennis?"
That was what the father of Zainab Alema, a British-Ghanaian Muslim, told her after she said she had fallen in love with the game.
Now 30, 'Zee' is a mother of three and quit her job as a neonatal nurse in 2021 to follow her dream of wearing a hijab under an England rugby kit.
She told Olympics.com, "I quit nursing… I made the decision to embark on a journey to become the first Black Muslim woman to play for England."
Having acquired the nickname 'Bulldozer' early in her rugby career, Alema is living up to that billing on and off the pitch.
"Being a Black Muslim woman in rugby, I'm smashing stereotypes and breaking those barriers. And if you look at it deeply, nobody expects a nurse to be playing rugby. Nobody expects a mother-of-three to be playing rugby. Nobody expects a career woman to be playing rugby.
"I'm smashing these stereotypes as a bulldozer would smash buildings on a site."
https://www.eurosport.fr/rugby/zainab-a ... ideo.shtml
https://olympics.com/en/news/zainab-ale ... tereotypes
Zainab Alema est prête à faire de nombreux sacrifices pour devenir la première femme musulmane noire à jouer au rugby pour l'Angleterre. Découvrez le portrait bouleversant de cette femme qui va tout faire pour réaliser son rêve tout en continuant à pratiquer sa foi.
Read about the Londoner who quit nursing, and defied cultural expectations, in order to pursue her dream of playing for England.
"Rugby is a man’s sport. Rugby is an elite sport. Why do you want to play rugby? Why don't you play tennis?"
That was what the father of Zainab Alema, a British-Ghanaian Muslim, told her after she said she had fallen in love with the game.
Now 30, 'Zee' is a mother of three and quit her job as a neonatal nurse in 2021 to follow her dream of wearing a hijab under an England rugby kit.
She told Olympics.com, "I quit nursing… I made the decision to embark on a journey to become the first Black Muslim woman to play for England."
Having acquired the nickname 'Bulldozer' early in her rugby career, Alema is living up to that billing on and off the pitch.
"Being a Black Muslim woman in rugby, I'm smashing stereotypes and breaking those barriers. And if you look at it deeply, nobody expects a nurse to be playing rugby. Nobody expects a mother-of-three to be playing rugby. Nobody expects a career woman to be playing rugby.
"I'm smashing these stereotypes as a bulldozer would smash buildings on a site."
https://www.eurosport.fr/rugby/zainab-a ... ideo.shtml
https://olympics.com/en/news/zainab-ale ... tereotypes