Tabitha Chawinga wasn't always a prolific scorer. The Paris Saint-Germain star played goalkeeper in rural Malawi as a young girl. A collision with a defender changed all that. Her mouth was bloodied. “After that I stopped playing the goal, because I was afraid as well (of) my mom,” Chawinga says. Her mother frowned on her playing soccer and would slap Chawinga to get her to stop, she says. It's one of the many obstacles she's faced during her rise to stardom. As a teenager, she was considered so... Read this story
