South Africa's Lesbian Soccer Team Has World Cup Fever

I thought lesbians played softball?

From Jezebel:

With all the coverage of potential danger to women caused by the World Cup, it's nice to hear about a group empowered by the event: South African lesbian footballers.

CNN's Ben Wyatt writes that Chosen Few, South Africa's only lesbian soccer team, was formed to help women kicked off other teams because of their orientation. Two of the players have been victims of so-called "corrective rape" — explains coach Dikeledi Sibanda,

"They want to correct us, to show us what a man can do. They think that being a lesbian is immoral and uncultured."

But Sibanda says soccer has given her the motivation to bear up under the stigma she faces:

I love football, it is the only thing that kept me going when I was being hurt by what was happening at home and in my community. Soccer is my life.
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