1 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: From a one room home in Lagos, Nigeria, to an 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: underground league in Queens, New York. We take you all 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: over the world on a journey that is immersive, intimate, 4 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: and intense. These are the lives of dreamers, of women's 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: soccer players who ask themselves, what am I willing to risk? 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 1: How far will I go to chase this game? These 7 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: are the stories of mothers and daughters, of far flung 8 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: adventures of heartbreak, endurance and joy. This series is about 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: finding something you love and doing whatever it takes to 10 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: keep it no matter what. I'm Hannah Waddingham and this 11 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: is Hustle Rule, based on the book Under the Lights 12 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: and in the Dark, written by Gwendolen Oxenham. When I 13 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,160 Speaker 1: first spoke to Gwen about this series, I was astonished 14 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: that the stories you are about to hear haven't been 15 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: more widely told. I think every kid in every school 16 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: should grow up hearing them. And while this series focuses 17 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: on football, the themes are universal for all the women 18 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: you're going to hear from. There's that teetering moment of 19 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 1: do I just accept that this is where I'm going 20 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: to sit, or do I do that last push? Because 21 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: I know I deserve it. It's not lost on me 22 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: that my role in ted Lesso is as the female 23 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: owner of an all male football team. In my own life, 24 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: I've tried to widen the field of opportunities for my 25 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: seven and a half year old daughter. While girls weren't 26 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: playing football in schools when I grew up, now that 27 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: has changed. Every Monday I take my daughter to football 28 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: club and she's like, Mommy, I love it. And as 29 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: she listens to this series, just as you are now, 30 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: I hope she is as inspired as I am. Here's 31 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: Gwen our author, a former player herself. At sixteen, she 32 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: was the youngest Division one soccer player in US collegiate history. 33 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: After playing at Duke University and then professionally in Santos, Brazil, 34 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: she made Pilada, a documentary about pickup games around the world. 35 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: She's been using soccer as a way into stories ever since. 36 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 1: Back in July of two thousand and four, I stood 37 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: with my teammate on the side of a dirt road 38 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: in e t i Aim, Brazil, holding out my thumb 39 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: attempting to hitchhike. It's a professional foot juball practice. We 40 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: played for Santos the most storied club in Brazil, and 41 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: this was our daily routine. My teammate would bat at 42 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: my thumb and mumble at me in Portuguese, never satisfied 43 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: with my technique, We take off after the car, yelling Brigada, 44 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: having saved ourselves the forty five minute walked to the field. 45 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: As I sat in the backseat, I thought to myself, 46 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: if this is what professional women's football looks like in Brazil, 47 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: the holy land of the game, what does it look 48 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: like in the rest of the world. That question led 49 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: me to write my book, and now you can hear 50 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: the players stories told in their own voices. Our first 51 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: episode is a linko the super Falcon. There are few 52 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 1: places in the world as busy as the a regular 53 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 1: boundary market in Lagos, Nigeria. Legos is the largest city 54 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: in all of Africa. It has a population of nearly 55 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 1: fifteen million people, and here it feels like it. The 56 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: market is chalk full of stalls and stands, chicken coops 57 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: and overflowing baskets of fruits and vegetables and lots of people. 58 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: So many people hustling and moving and shouting and selling, 59 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: balancing goods on their heads as they navigate the maze 60 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: of the market. This is where thirteen year old Josephine 61 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: Trigue has been selling fruit every afternoon for the past 62 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: four years, carrying a tray of mangoes and bananas on 63 00:03:55,960 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: her head. But today is different. Today it feels like 64 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: she has a secret because yesterday her life changed. A 65 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: scout knocked on thep ply with door of her family's 66 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: one room home and told her parents she had what 67 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: it took to be a professional football player. Man that 68 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: I think that the I sawed almost everything, because you 69 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: know there's this energy that gone, you know when you 70 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 1: are having when you are doing something and you know 71 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: something is going to come up from this. My life 72 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: is going to change after this. Now she needed cleats. 73 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: Her mother, the owner of a roadside fruit stand, had 74 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: told her she could keep ten cents out of every dollar. 75 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: This meant that every mango she sold got her one 76 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: step closer to cleats, to football, to her future. Several 77 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: boys had ridden the golden football ticket out of a 78 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: regular They found professional careers in Nigeria, in Tunisia, as 79 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: far away as Sweden. Josephine wanted to do the same thing. 80 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: I keep telling my mom when I was selling in 81 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: the market. One day, you're gonna see me in the TV. 82 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: But as everyone told her, you're a girl. That doesn't 83 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: happen to girls. This is the story of Josephine's relentless 84 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: pursuit of her dreams and her determination to prove everyone wrong. 85 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: Money one days, nobody here's Gwen. When Josephine was born, 86 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: the third daughter in the family, her father disappeared for 87 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: three days. I know he's actually waiting for you, a 88 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: male child, because of his family. When they gave it 89 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: to me, wasn't at the hospital. He wasn't present when 90 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 1: he came. He left. It was like if he made again, 91 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: So it was that's happy about it. He didn't even 92 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: show up. He was disappointed to have a daughter, while 93 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: she was disappointed to be born in the poverty. All 94 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: the time, I always asked my dad why we're white. 95 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: We're staying in around them apartment with everyone inside the one. 96 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: We have five on the floor and my mom and 97 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:22,559 Speaker 1: my dad on the bed. So we have to create 98 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: a space whenever I want to sleep in the night, 99 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: so we have to like take the long sulfa and 100 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: put on top of the shot sofa, so we have 101 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: like a space and that space. We have to put 102 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: a math on the floor and we sleep. My leg 103 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: is gonna be on my sister's head, so my oldest 104 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:44,359 Speaker 1: sister leg is going to be on my head. During 105 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: the days, Josephine and her sister fell in love with football, 106 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 1: playing in the dirt with the boys. Their father did 107 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 1: not approve. It was like, you cannot believe because it's 108 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: for men, You're gonna be like a man. I don't 109 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: want my check to be like your man. But Nko 110 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: barely heard these talks from her father, and one day 111 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 1: he actually watched her. It was a game between they're 112 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: part of the neighborhood and another part of the neighborhood. 113 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: Three kids against three other kids, and everybody for some 114 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: reason was watching, and there was this raucous, excited feeling 115 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: in the air that did the rain is falling. I 116 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: took the boat from the back and dremble almost everybody 117 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: in I scool Scott against the guys, and we do 118 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: was maybe she's good. Maybe she's good. So he was happy. 119 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: He was just surprised to see that what people are 120 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: seeing is true. She's good. But even that day had 121 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: not changed his mind. When a local coach named Tico 122 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: knocked on their door and invited Josephine and her sister 123 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: to play for his team. Her father wasn't having it. 124 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: The first day to cooking to our house, it was 125 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: that I want to see your dad, and my dad 126 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: is really my dad is a tough man. My dad said, 127 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: you don't need to come to this house anymore to 128 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: take my child to football because she's a woman. I 129 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: don't want that to look like a man. Partico is 130 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: actually so scared of my father because my dad definitely 131 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: means it. When they said I don't want to see 132 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: your mouse, you don't need to come. He's gonna call 133 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: the police on So Tico left and went to talk 134 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: to my mom. I started crying and say if if 135 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: I if I will not be able to play football, 136 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: then I'm gonna die. I keep saying it to my 137 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: mom because I know my mom has a soft spot. 138 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: You say, a mommy, so you see this ball. See 139 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: if I don't play this boll? Say, I will die? 140 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: So are you? We die if it's not play that, mommy. 141 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: If I don't play football, I will die. You can't 142 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: hear your daughter say that and not given this coach 143 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 1: Tico was saying their daughter could be great, that football 144 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:59,439 Speaker 1: could give her a future and a jay. Futures weren't 145 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: easy to buy. Her father knew this firsthand. Every day 146 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,719 Speaker 1: he left her home to look for work as a 147 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,959 Speaker 1: day laborer. One time Josephine followed him and saw him 148 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 1: at the wharf, just waiting. I saw him in a 149 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: really bad state. You know, when you don't have a job, 150 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: you need to sit. It was just like chicken, he said. 151 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: I think he's waiting for someone to choose him. That 152 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: day's face is not good. And every time my dad 153 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 1: went to work, he would say he's working, but he's 154 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: not working. I didn't tear anybody though. I just know 155 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,199 Speaker 1: that my dad is not working. So all this way 156 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: we're asking him of money that he gives us money, 157 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: he's just squeezing, squeezing from his own side. It doesn't 158 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: have a good job at all. So since then, I 159 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: don't think I ever asked him about And while we pull, 160 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: I don't ever asking. Even though Josephine's father hadn't wanted 161 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: a third daughter and had fought her every time she 162 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: tried to play football, they were also somehow best friends. 163 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: It was obvious to Josephine's sister, Christianna. She's always my 164 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: father's favor. Like the two of them, they love each 165 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: other very well. Her father was also one of those 166 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 1: guys who was good at giving people nicknames, like he 167 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: big Dan name and just give it to you. Dan 168 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 1: name is the name is going to be called like 169 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: me called Micbaco. Baco is like a plywood. So when 170 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: my dad is telling me that Micbaco, he means that 171 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:46,559 Speaker 1: slim and strong. I was that what did you call me? This? 172 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:51,680 Speaker 1: What you always called me? This name? Her skinniness earned 173 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 1: her another nickname, one that her family still uses to 174 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: this day. It came during one particularly windy training with 175 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: Coach t O at the military field, when turning her 176 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:07,319 Speaker 1: oversized jersey into a sale. My shot was really big 177 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: and we wanted to start training, so we need to 178 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: like take a around around the beach. He started and 179 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:21,719 Speaker 1: drizzling like a lot of wind. Daddy. I noticed that 180 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: I'm running, but the wind is taking me backwards at 181 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: some boy shouts, see how you're running like a linko. 182 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: A Linko is the name of a character on the 183 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: popular Nigerian sitcom Papa Jasco. He's a famously skinny boy 184 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: with a signature walk, and we have a little kids 185 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 1: that are training the other side. So all the kids 186 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: started shouting Lincoln. So that was how the name came up. 187 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: The name just came like that. The day I went home, 188 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: my sister was like, Daddy, your daughter's new name is 189 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: a Lincoln. My dad was laughing the old nighble. Everybody 190 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: know I am Lincoln. It wasn't long before another coach 191 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: knocked on her door, a scout from one of the 192 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: best professional women's teams in Nigeria, the Pelican Stars. They 193 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,440 Speaker 1: came from far away, from a city called Calabar in 194 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: the southernmost tip of the country. It was more than 195 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: a fourteen hour drive and the bus was leaving the 196 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: next day. So when this guy came, when he first 197 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: came to the door, and you know, my dad said, 198 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: so you want to take my daughter to that's far 199 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: please Calaba for how many years? So the man was like, no, 200 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: your daughter is good, We will will take her to Calaba. 201 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: Will be giving us some money, will be paying your salary. 202 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 1: So my dad was like, no, she's too young. How 203 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,319 Speaker 1: would she be able to take care of herself? At first, 204 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: my dad stand up, He wasn't taking it because I've 205 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: never traveled that far with people that I don't know. 206 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 1: You say, if you don't go away from my house, 207 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,479 Speaker 1: maybe I'm gonna come place when you. It was insulting 208 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: in every manner my mom King, and my mom was 209 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: just like trying to persuade in. People are watching, Daddy 210 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: because they noticed that in some footballer coach King. So 211 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: the compound was a little bit, a little bit fool Daddy, 212 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: like everybody are looking. But the old place was quiet. 213 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: It was my dad voice and a King's voice and 214 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: my mom's voice and my cry. I was saying, if 215 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: I don't play football, Daddy, if I don't play football, 216 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: I'm going to die you. So that is when my 217 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: mom started talking to my dad saying, let's give it 218 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: to try. And the next morning, A Lincoln took a 219 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: bus with half a dozen other girls to a new 220 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:48,319 Speaker 1: life in a new state, playing professional football on grass 221 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: for the first time. I started football on a bison. 222 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: When I come to the grass, it was like football 223 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: was too sweet for me. When I'm playing it, I'm 224 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: just flowing um like I'm like maybe on the sky. 225 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: Playing on the grass. This is sweet and it's easy 226 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 1: you can pass the boys a little without people bumping, 227 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: because the grass was really smooth and I was running. 228 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: I wasn't even tired. And after spending her whole life 229 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: sleeping in one room with six other people, she was 230 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: giving a room to share with only one other player. 231 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: I said, I used stevious this room. You know, I 232 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: was really happy. I was like, so I first called 233 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: my mom. Mom, can you believed that me and somebody's 234 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: gonna share one room? One room and we have toilets, 235 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: we have bedroom, were kitchen inside, And in this moment, 236 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: she knew she would find a way to get her 237 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: family out of a jugular. You know, when you don't 238 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: have something and you you actually experienced a little bit 239 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: of it, you will be dreaming about it, like I'm 240 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: gonna walk out to get this. My first month in 241 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 1: that place in Pelicans that were just saying, O God, 242 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: I know I'm going to have a place. We're gonna 243 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: be comfortable like this. That is, I keep saying it. 244 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: I don't even know how I'm gonna do it, but 245 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna do it. But my mom, they 246 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: don't take teams serious because of course she's also if 247 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: I say something when I wake up that I have 248 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: a cow in my dream. Then I have a house. 249 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: They will say, Okay, it's malaria, it's tie. They don't 250 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: even believe it. They say it's malaria, you have a fever. 251 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: But I keep saying it all the time that I'm 252 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: going to buy a house. I'm gonna buy a house. 253 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the house for you. I called A 254 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: Linco's mom and A Lincoln's sister, Christiana and Legos. I asked, 255 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: when she told you she would build you a house, 256 00:15:54,560 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: did you believe her? Well that done? When she said, 257 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: Mom brought me she will built house, should we back 258 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: up from me? I didn't think said will be really yeah, 259 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: my mom would be saying that she's seeking the head. 260 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: She just did dreaming that. My mom then she just 261 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: encouraged us to play football, but she never really believed 262 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: that the outcome. We did this huge. In two and eight, 263 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: for the first time, FIFA, soccer's global ruling body, was 264 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: hosting an under seventeen Women's World Cup. Nigeria was creating 265 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: a team, and A Lincoln was one of more than 266 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: fifty girls invited to try out. I was pretting every day, 267 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: see move me a big like movie. Please pray for 268 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: me my moment, just say one of the two players. 269 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: She don't know what it means, you know me. I 270 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: was just saying, good please, my hartwork, this is not 271 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: my heartwork is gonna shoot to day they called the finalist. 272 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: I called my family and I told them about it 273 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 1: because the names are going to come out from in 274 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 1: the newspapers. My mom heard about it in the market. See, 275 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 1: your daughter name is in the newspaper. The daughter qualified 276 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: to them one of the players going to Guinea konakre 277 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: she's on the second tea player now. So that is 278 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: when the first time they heard about my name in 279 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 1: the newspaper. My mom was like, so, my pikame name 280 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: can I entered this paper. Pickin means my child, my 281 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 1: child name can be in the newspaper. Our first game 282 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: is Guinea Kona Krei and we need to travel by 283 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: a So that was my first plane. I was just 284 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: thinking that God, please, I just don't want to die 285 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: this young. I was shouting. I was crying holding the 286 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 1: plane seats. So when the plane started having a little 287 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: bit of the turbulence on the air, it was mad. 288 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: I couldn't even continue. Man, that experience was. It was awesome, 289 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 1: but it wasn't It wasn't easy. Number one thing I 290 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 1: was thinking now, I'm I'm beginning to leave the dream 291 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: that on the seventh team makes me to realize that 292 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 1: this boy is going places. In May, she traveled to 293 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: New Zealand for the main event, the Under seventeen World Cap, 294 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: and the games were going to be televised that day. 295 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 1: The energy went off. So the the other neighbor, yeah, 296 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 1: is he has a generator, so they own the generator. 297 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: So they were like, come and see your child. Your 298 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: child is playing, Come and see your child. This is 299 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: an honor for everyone who first in the neighborhood. So 300 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: they invite my dad inside their house and that was 301 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,360 Speaker 1: the first time that man can actually call my dad 302 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 1: inside his own hours to come and watch the TV. 303 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 1: So I was playing and you know, the only boos 304 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,360 Speaker 1: that is shouting. They have never watched anybody in the TV, 305 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: like you know, somebody you know, like somebody from your 306 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: neighborhood in the TV. It has never help put in 307 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: in my place. Christiana was there that day. Everybody was 308 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: shouting Alco a Linko, a Linco, now you had your score, 309 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:26,719 Speaker 1: one go. Everybody watched outing Alco is not link that score? 310 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: Why everybody was shouting that Linco because she was She 311 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: really played well in that match. He really played weight. 312 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: So after the game, after everything, I called them and 313 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: I can't hear the voice and the back anybody shouting 314 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: every shout to me. Do you play where you did well? 315 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: My dad was proud of you. You know this I've 316 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: never had My dad has never come to Navy Barretts 317 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: to watch me play football since since I've been playing 318 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: football all my life. The Navy Barracks was the dirt 319 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: field close to a jacula. It was a safe place 320 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 1: to play and many Nigerian grades had beginnings on that field. 321 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: But her dad didn't watch her until this national team 322 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: game on television. I think that was that was everything 323 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: to my father. My dad was extremely happy after that. 324 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: Given a calling was actually you are looking so big 325 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: in the TV. What's indivial life? You are so small. 326 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: So after that day, my dad was so amazed. I 327 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: would like that was the best experience about if your 328 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: parents are watching you play and they have never watched 329 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: you before. It was the first time, so it was 330 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,880 Speaker 1: really good for me. And the day she came back, 331 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: the entire neighborhood was waiting for her something. Her sister 332 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:52,639 Speaker 1: and her mom. Still remember if you see the starting people, 333 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: we are shouting. When I came back. That is when 334 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 1: I put the money down. I said that you c 335 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: the football. Now you say she didn't play. This is 336 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: the book. This is the dollar. I've never seen dollar. 337 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: That was the first time my mom was seeing dollar 338 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:13,919 Speaker 1: for the first time. My dad too, So my mom are, 339 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: I was like, so give this dollar. Never seen the life. 340 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: Not long after that, A Lincoln gets scooped up by 341 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 1: the best team in the country, the River Angels. The 342 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:33,120 Speaker 1: roster boasted nearly all national team players, and in May 343 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: two thousand and ten, at just eighteen years old, A 344 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 1: Lincoln joined the Nigerian senior national team to play in 345 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 1: a friendly against North Korea. The way their woman up, 346 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: he scares me. They are women of like like militree men. 347 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 1: That country is different from everywhere being to our own life. 348 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 1: To you, everybody is wearing the same clothes. The funds 349 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: that came to watch, they're all wearing like dark loud 350 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: T shirt. Everything was just seeing in the stadium the noise. 351 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,880 Speaker 1: So that day I was super skid, but I actually 352 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 1: did my best as a young player. I really, I 353 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 1: really played at the boats. Mende's girls are good. A 354 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 1: Lincoln usually talked with her family a lot every day, 355 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: but since she'd been in North Korea, her phone had 356 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 1: been quiet. Yeah, my dad, we are clues. If I 357 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 1: call him, he's not picking up. I called my mom, 358 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,159 Speaker 1: called my Sister's got the two of them putting on 359 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: picking up. See me. They have a problem with their phone. 360 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: No one answered for five days. Finally her sister picked up. 361 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: She was so sorry, our phone has been so bad 362 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 1: because we don't have energy, and so okay, I understand, 363 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 1: but why everybody say they are fine? But A Lincoln 364 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: knew that things were not fine. So when the t 365 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: he made it back to Nigeria, she caught the next 366 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,360 Speaker 1: pass back home that day. I just took the night 367 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: Boss and go to Legos. They takes a maybe like 368 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: eight or nine hours. It's a road trip. Inside the Boss, 369 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: I was just like I couldn't sleep. You know, it's 370 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: a blood thin I just feel something that's wrong with me. 371 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 1: I was just bringing that we should reach Ellie, like 372 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: the boss should move really fast, let me know what 373 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 1: is happening, Like I hope it's not something serious. The 374 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 1: moment I went home, I saw a lot of people 375 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 1: crying all the way to our house. I said, I 376 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: don't know why. Why is everybody? Then I know that 377 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: my dad's dead. I couldn't stand it. I have to 378 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 1: run away. I couldn't even sleep in the house. I 379 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 1: just run away and went to another place and sleep 380 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: past a night in the or. I was angry because 381 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: I wasn't there for him. That is what I just feel. 382 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: I wish I'm in Nigeria, if we're not in Korea. 383 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: I think I could have maybe metal when it was 384 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 1: in the hospital battling for his life, everybody was there 385 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: with him. It is just me. I wish they told me. 386 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: I told him. At least I could have even called 387 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 1: on video just to hear him, even if he's not talking. 388 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:32,639 Speaker 1: Only is brittain for me to just yet something about him. Lastly, 389 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: he could have been good. I didn't even see him. 390 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: He wouldn't. I didn't even touch him. Nothing. If you 391 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: told me that my dad's gonna die house and never 392 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: I never believed that is dead because he's full of life. 393 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: That man is so strong man. I've never felt that 394 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: way before. It's like something left me that day and 395 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: I saw it, the dead body. I never believed that 396 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: a big man like that can just die and it 397 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,919 Speaker 1: cannot talk. It was just silent. You couldn't say anything. 398 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 1: We are opening. It could just open his mouth to 399 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: see something. It's painful. In her father, she had lost 400 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: her best friend and the patriarch of her family. A 401 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: Linco and her family are part of the Ebo ethnic group, 402 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,160 Speaker 1: and the loss of the patriarch without a direct male heir, 403 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 1: is a big deal. It depends on individual families, and 404 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: it depends on the man status. But generally there is 405 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: this belief that if a man does not have a 406 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: son and dies, that that such a man had lived 407 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: a worthless life and that there will be nobody to 408 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: continue his lineage, and after his brothers contemporaries die, the 409 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 1: man will be forgotten. That Professor Gloria Chuco she's the 410 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: chair of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 411 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: and she specializes in gender dynamics and Ebo culture. No 412 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: one in a Linco's father's Ebo village helps the family 413 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: of women with a burial. They are left to fend 414 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: for themselves. At twenty years old a Linko pays for 415 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 1: her father's funeral almost entirely by herself. I think that 416 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 1: Buryer make me like I need just so you need 417 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: to step up. I was just like I need to 418 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: have a house. I saw a lot of players building 419 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 1: houses in reverse angels. I'm our manager, then she's actually 420 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: the manager of She always encouraged young players use your 421 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 1: money wisely. What you do for your family is what 422 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,680 Speaker 1: is what they're going to remember you off. So she 423 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: encouraged every one who for us to get the land. 424 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: She always remind us in every day, every night, remember 425 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 1: to see I remember to see, remember your amnipaku. So 426 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: I just go to the land inside a place in 427 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 1: it could inside legals about a place for five never 428 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: is in dulas is. I think. So every money I 429 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: made in national team, I didn't even spend it. I 430 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: was saving every penny. It took five years to build 431 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: the house. Every year the home went up little by little, 432 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: room by room, and by two thousand and fifteen, her 433 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: mom and sisters had a place they could call their own. 434 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: And this isn't just a Linko story. Many Nigerian women's 435 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 1: players have also been able to save money and change 436 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: their families lives. The Nigerian Women's Football League is one 437 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 1: of the longest standing women's professional leagues in the world, 438 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: first starting in Here's the Minadwa the current head of 439 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: women's football at the Nigerian Football Federation. And these girls, 440 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 1: most of them come from poor backgrounds. They grew up struggling. 441 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,160 Speaker 1: They saw their parents struggling. So by getting into football 442 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,199 Speaker 1: and making it with the little they have, a lot 443 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,720 Speaker 1: of them are the breadwinners. They do basically all everything 444 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 1: for their family. It gives you know, it gives them 445 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 1: a leeway to see the world, make it in life 446 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 1: and then help their family members and other people too. 447 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 1: So it does help. It changes their life. It does 448 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 1: change their life because of the country's investment in the 449 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: women's game. The Super Falcons have a history of being 450 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: the best team in Africa. To be fair, and the 451 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 1: Super Falcons are the champions of Africa. We won nine 452 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: African Cup of Nations. We have about eleven tattoos to 453 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 1: our name, but we're the best in Africa anyway, the 454 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: Super Falcon so you know, we we not want to 455 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 1: try and connectrate the world. But they also have something 456 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: of a World Cup curse. They're only advanced to the 457 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: quarterfinals once in World Cup history. In and for the 458 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: last two decades, they've been pitted against stiff competition in 459 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 1: the group stage where teams fight to qualify. It happens 460 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: in two thousand and three points to the middle the 461 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: United States of America five and in two thousand and 462 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: seven closing out their World Cup but to lose by 463 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 1: this score against the United States, that's really like a 464 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: moral victory for them and two thousand eleven jo It's 465 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: a story that Nigerian sports journalist at Anca Oya del 466 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: A has seen over and over again. We all know 467 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: when it comes to women's soccer, women's football in the world, 468 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: the Americans are top notch, the Germans a top notch, 469 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: the Swedes a top notch, and we find ourselves always 470 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: drawing one of these three teams in a group. We 471 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: always hope to avoid the Americans, the Germans and the Suites. 472 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 1: Bring on any other team, we feel we have what 473 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: it takes to match them, but then somehow we just 474 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: get to draw these guys we called our group of 475 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: death when you give us a very strong team, and 476 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: that has been the major problem for Nigeria. In two 477 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 1: thousand and fifteen, they once again landed in the Group 478 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: of Death, but Alinko and her teammates were all hope. 479 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: Just one year earlier, a good portion of the roster 480 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 1: had wowed the soccer world at the Under twenty World Cup, 481 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: and while they ultimately lost to Germany in the final, 482 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: they had dominated the game. Most watching the tournament would 483 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 1: have described the Nigerians as the most talented youth team 484 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: in the world. One year later, the senior side was 485 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 1: composed of many of the same players, twenty year olds 486 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 1: eager to stun the favorites in their group Sweden, Australia 487 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: and the United States. The American game, it was like 488 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: the highness. I wouldn't lie to you. It was like 489 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: the finest because we put the game on i S 490 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 1: level force, like we're going to beat these girls. That 491 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 1: day we came to win. We are so close to 492 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: win if not for and the one bag that's called man. 493 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 1: That game was really one of my best game I played. 494 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: Eschimely good. A Linko is a center back. She strips 495 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: the ball off of incoming forwards in a way that 496 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: is absolute and intimidating. Then she distributes coolly and definitively 497 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: Courtney d K was one of the younger teammates playing 498 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: with a Lingo in that World Cup. I was very 499 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: intimidated by her because she's ruthless, and so I was 500 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: going up against her in practice and she was just 501 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: dominating everything. She would go down to tackle you as 502 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 1: hard as she could. If you're going going up again, stir. 503 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: But then you know she'll talk to you after the 504 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: game and it will be like nothing happened. Even though 505 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: the Nigerians don't make it out of group, a Linko 506 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: didn't go unnoticed. Her agent got her a contract to 507 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: finish out the American professional season with the Washington Spirit. 508 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: A Linka would leave the River Angels and for the 509 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 1: first time, play professional soccer on another continent. But before 510 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: she took off for the US, there was something she 511 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: wanted to do for her mom. So when I came back, 512 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: I bought my mom sell funitures. The funitures because she 513 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: has never eaten in the only dining table before. So 514 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 1: I took out to the funiture show and I was like, mo, me, 515 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: I've seen a lot. I've seen some nice stuff in 516 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: my life, and I would like you to experience little water. 517 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: I asked a Linko's mom what she remembered from that day. 518 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 1: Her sister Christiana helped explain, Mama by what I was 519 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: a Lincoln. You can't have follow these things now this desire. 520 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 1: Nicole was laughing at us. They moved me calm down, 521 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,520 Speaker 1: um here to buy all these things for you. So 522 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 1: my mother, my mother shouted and say, wow, you want 523 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,240 Speaker 1: to buy the all these things for me, so that 524 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 1: they are Linko box, blend, our new couch, television, said 525 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 1: so many other things. So nigive they do our distance 526 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 1: for me for my life upon this basket, this sofa 527 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: sign no believe for my life. That day I cry, 528 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: I cried. I thank God, she says. She knelt down 529 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 1: and she was crying because so many people have been 530 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: mocking at right from where she was giving birth to 531 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,480 Speaker 1: all of us, that she doesn't have the male child, 532 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 1: that female you and now of no use, that nobody 533 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 1: will take care of her in our old age. So 534 00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:00,480 Speaker 1: what male children can do our female you not doing 535 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: it for her. So she was happy and she was 536 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: crying at the same time INDs and for mutual house. 537 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,719 Speaker 1: So she said she was really good to to go. 538 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 1: She was thanking God that what other male childn't can 539 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 1: do that our own daughter. He's doing it for Between 540 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 1: joining the team mid season and visa technicalities, A Lincoln 541 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 1: only played in two games for the Washington Spirit, but 542 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,320 Speaker 1: she loved those two games and she was hopeful for 543 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: the next season until the team delivered some news. They 544 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,399 Speaker 1: just told us that our coach is going to leave. 545 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: But when the new coach is coming, the new coach 546 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,399 Speaker 1: did not even see us play, did just wavers. It's 547 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: quite crazy. So we are thinking they're gonna weave us 548 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 1: to another team boats they just wave us out. After 549 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 1: only three months, A Lincos dream of playing in the 550 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,760 Speaker 1: US is over. Instead, she signs a one year contract 551 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: with Swedish club Victory, with the option to extend. Nagosi 552 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 1: Sonya A Kobe, her teammate from the Washington Spirit, does 553 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:13,280 Speaker 1: the same every game. I am winning like me and Sonia. 554 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,520 Speaker 1: If she didn't get m VP, I'm getting If she 555 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,239 Speaker 1: didn't get it, I'm getting it. So we are just 556 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,800 Speaker 1: like the eye of the team. If Sonya's called me, 557 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 1: I danced, Sonia would want to meet me. We started 558 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:31,280 Speaker 1: dancing and Lincoln played every minute of every match until 559 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:36,640 Speaker 1: she couldn't. The last two games from the first round. 560 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,279 Speaker 1: That is when I started developing pains. Maybe I was 561 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 1: looking the pain will go, the pain will go. I 562 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 1: started I've seen it and going to my fisio. But 563 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,479 Speaker 1: I was like playing with it. Well when the pain 564 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,320 Speaker 1: was increasing, my leg was swollen and I'm still using it. 565 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,359 Speaker 1: We did emirate the result was bad. The he said 566 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,480 Speaker 1: what was like, they need to do a surgery. So 567 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,719 Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know if I would be 568 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 1: able to do surgeries. This is the need are bad. 569 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 1: So I'm just scared of bad result because I might 570 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,440 Speaker 1: the peak of my career. I'm not even enjoyed the 571 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:20,439 Speaker 1: professional life yet. After the surgery to Kim and said 572 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:24,880 Speaker 1: the case on the knees not good, I was on 573 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:29,480 Speaker 1: my bed with Sonia. I was crying. That is when 574 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,400 Speaker 1: the coaches came to me and said that they won't 575 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 1: give me another contract. That is where I started having 576 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 1: the problem of my life. I think she had a 577 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,320 Speaker 1: great sense of how to play the game. I recall 578 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:49,440 Speaker 1: it the ability to read the play and so she 579 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: had some difficulties with a knee, but before that she 580 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 1: was flying. It was one of the best mid defenders 581 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,840 Speaker 1: in the league. So that's Thomas Mortenson, one of our 582 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,400 Speaker 1: linco's coaches. A bit we had a medical opinion on 583 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,399 Speaker 1: what I mean. It's hard also because football is both 584 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,960 Speaker 1: taking care of people, but it's also a business, so 585 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 1: it's hard to keep players. When our doctors said that 586 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,920 Speaker 1: she wouldn't be able to play and if we couldn't 587 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,959 Speaker 1: give her a contract from next yep, that was really sad, 588 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:31,280 Speaker 1: but that's football sometimes. Also, if one thing is clear, 589 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 1: a Linko is resilient. At thirty years old, she has 590 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:39,440 Speaker 1: accomplished more than anyone ever expected, so it's no surprise 591 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,120 Speaker 1: that when she got this devastating news, she still picked 592 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:46,120 Speaker 1: herself back up and found a way. Here's Stefan extr And, 593 00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,359 Speaker 1: who coached a inco in Sweden when she was trying 594 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,200 Speaker 1: to make it back to the first division. She had 595 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:58,040 Speaker 1: this fantastic fighting spirit. When she came to a game, 596 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,600 Speaker 1: she did every in for the team to concede a 597 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:09,680 Speaker 1: clean sheet or scoring a goal. I remember she took 598 00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,560 Speaker 1: the players together and then she were talking about that 599 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,959 Speaker 1: she would do anything and everything to help the club 600 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,720 Speaker 1: and the players. And when the Africa Cup of Nations 601 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,640 Speaker 1: comes around, a Linko is back on the national team 602 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,240 Speaker 1: where she plays for her country and ultimately helps Nigeria 603 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:40,000 Speaker 1: win the whole tournament at Nigeria are the nine Government. 604 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,520 Speaker 1: I think that was my most happiest moment because that 605 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,200 Speaker 1: was the competition of My mom personally watched me. She 606 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,680 Speaker 1: watched me. Every game that came back from injury were 607 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,120 Speaker 1: by the c I can not play foot point. I 608 00:38:55,360 --> 00:39:00,439 Speaker 1: was really happy. I was really happy because I work. 609 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,560 Speaker 1: Every Body is watching, so we will come to my house. 610 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:09,840 Speaker 1: They will be making nice O lincle. Everybody wants shouted, 611 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,160 Speaker 1: I saw your sister, I saw yourself. Bad are legal 612 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:18,239 Speaker 1: is modera? O liver is every everyone who everybody wants 613 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,680 Speaker 1: to be like a legal. But after the high of that, 614 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,440 Speaker 1: wind E Linco was soon faced with the facts the 615 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,360 Speaker 1: injury on her knee is too significant to continue with 616 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,920 Speaker 1: a professional soccer career. Man When the doctor said you 617 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,960 Speaker 1: can't if you keep playing, you're going to have complication 618 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,360 Speaker 1: on your knee, I would like to do. It's not easy. 619 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:43,000 Speaker 1: Thank you, like to you. I'm just feel like I lost. 620 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,160 Speaker 1: That is how I'm just saying. I said that I'm 621 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:50,320 Speaker 1: a loser. I I'm too good, I'm too good to 622 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:54,120 Speaker 1: store football. I'm just having this old thing because I 623 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,440 Speaker 1: know I'm at the top of my game. Injury is 624 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,800 Speaker 1: no good, especially when you come from me. You know 625 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,759 Speaker 1: you're the one doing everything for them. This thing up 626 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,120 Speaker 1: unto you. You can't even go back home and they 627 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,680 Speaker 1: take care of you. No job in Ena. I don't 628 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,520 Speaker 1: blame them, though, I blame my society. My sisters. They 629 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,760 Speaker 1: went to school, their guarduate, but they don't have jobs. 630 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 1: They are only selling their petty trade. I've never done 631 00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:22,160 Speaker 1: anything apart from football. This is my life. You know, 632 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,719 Speaker 1: we would like go for me. There's no job in 633 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,520 Speaker 1: that the Injuria, so many people went to school. I 634 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,880 Speaker 1: did not even go to university. I don't have that 635 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,160 Speaker 1: big connection and enjoyed that. They can't even help me 636 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,080 Speaker 1: to get a good job. You know, when you lost 637 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:43,640 Speaker 1: something that is something that is your life. It's an explainable. 638 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,920 Speaker 1: The feeling I have about me getting the press is 639 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,279 Speaker 1: one thing. I would never know how to express this 640 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:57,840 Speaker 1: because football was just my everything. Football scholar Lauren Dubois 641 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:02,680 Speaker 1: once wrote, soccer at its heart is all about creating 642 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,440 Speaker 1: openings where there seem to be none. Every player on 643 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,479 Speaker 1: the pitch lives by this rule. This truth, of course, 644 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,280 Speaker 1: extends beyond the field. If you can find the opening, 645 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,239 Speaker 1: you can change your life. A Linko's talent is the 646 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,600 Speaker 1: reason she was able to build a home for her family, 647 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,600 Speaker 1: and now as she recovers from injury, she's running into 648 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 1: new barriers, navigating spaces she's never been in before. Then 649 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,360 Speaker 1: miss every day, every day, every day, I miss it, 650 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,879 Speaker 1: and if I talk about it, I won't sleep. I'll 651 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,759 Speaker 1: be thinking during me about Footbay every day. So that 652 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,240 Speaker 1: is why I don't keep in torch with them at 653 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,840 Speaker 1: the football My football team meets in Africa because they 654 00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:48,280 Speaker 1: want to know what's up with me. Good and even 655 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,880 Speaker 1: you know, I'll come to this point in my life boots, 656 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,839 Speaker 1: I tried. I'm still fighting for it too. I need 657 00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:59,320 Speaker 1: to fight for life. One thing that makes me actually 658 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,520 Speaker 1: really like I came out from that depression was like 659 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,799 Speaker 1: a lot of people don't eat in Nangeria right now 660 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:12,040 Speaker 1: because the state of Nangera is bad since last year. 661 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,319 Speaker 1: I know when people am sending money to even when 662 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,840 Speaker 1: I don't have money, I said them even just maybe 663 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,520 Speaker 1: daty dollars, they will be grateful. So at least I'm 664 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:25,120 Speaker 1: even seeing more than daty dollars now, So who am 665 00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,560 Speaker 1: I to be complaining. I know, no matter how I'm struggling, 666 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:36,799 Speaker 1: I've always had this strong mentality about it. In Nigeria, 667 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,080 Speaker 1: football gives women the opportunity to make a living, to 668 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:45,160 Speaker 1: support their families, to be a breadwinner. Josephine Chiku is 669 00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,600 Speaker 1: living proof of this, and though she's been forced to 670 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:52,680 Speaker 1: move on from the game, that same determination, resilience and 671 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,200 Speaker 1: drive that took her to the largest stage in football 672 00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,759 Speaker 1: will lead her right to her next opening. So over 673 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,200 Speaker 1: the next six weeks will be sharing more or inspiring 674 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,319 Speaker 1: stories of incredible women who will do anything to play 675 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,279 Speaker 1: the game they love. I'm Hannah Waddingham and this is 676 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:14,520 Speaker 1: Hustle Rule. To celebrate the series launch of Hustle Rule, 677 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,120 Speaker 1: We've got a two episode special drop. Listen now to 678 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:40,360 Speaker 1: our next episode play away, the Game for Nobody. Hustle 679 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:44,200 Speaker 1: Rule is a production of Waffle Iron Entertainment, Range Media Partners, 680 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,400 Speaker 1: Observatory Audio, UP Media and I Heart Radio, written and 681 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:52,120 Speaker 1: directed by Gwendolyn oxen Um, hosted by me Hannah wadding Um, 682 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,200 Speaker 1: and is based on the book Under the Lights and 683 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,760 Speaker 1: in the Dark, written by Gwendolyn Oxenham. The executive producers 684 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,719 Speaker 1: are justin Biscun from Waffle Iron Entertainment, Bob Alligan from 685 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:05,759 Speaker 1: Range Media Partners, and Sean Titan from iHeart Radio. Co 686 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,520 Speaker 1: written by Ruth Hilton, produced by Gwendolyn Oxenham, Ruth Hilton 687 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,480 Speaker 1: and Jordana Glick Franszheim, co produced by Jimmy Jelinek and 688 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,759 Speaker 1: Jared Goodstadt, edited by Carry Caulfield, Eric sound design and 689 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,160 Speaker 1: mixing by Jeremiah's Immerman. Music by Jeff Peters and Bill 690 00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,719 Speaker 1: mart Theme song performed by a one Laflair. You'll find 691 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,399 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeart Radio on the iHeart Radio app, 692 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:38,080 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Coot Club