Barbra Banda (born 20 March 2000) is a Zambian amateur boxer and
footballer
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who plays as a
forward
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Forward may also refer to:
People
* Forward (surname)
Sports
* Forward (association football)
* Forward (basketball), including:
** Point forward
** Power forward (basketball)
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for Chinese club
Shanghai Shengli
The Chinese Women's Super League (CWSL) is the top level women's football league in China. It was called the Chinese Women's National Football League from 2011 to 2014.
History
The league started in 1997 as the Chinese Women's Premier Football L ...
and the
Zambia women's national team. She captains the
Zambia women's national football team
The Zambia women's national football team, nicknamed the Copper Queens, represents Zambia in women's association football. There is also a Zambia women's national under-17 football team, a Zambia women's national under-20 football team, and Oly ...
.
Early life
Banda was born in March 2000 in
Lusaka
Lusaka (; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zambia. It is one of the fastest-developing cities in southern Africa. Lusaka is in the southern part of the central plateau at an elevation of about . , the city's population was ab ...
, the Zambian capital. She began playing football at the age of seven.
Club career
After spending her two first seasons at Spanish
first division club
EDF Logroño EDF may refer to:
Organisations
* Eclaireurs de France, a French Scouting association
* Education for Development Foundation, a Thai charity
* Électricité de France, a French energy company
** EDF Energy, their British subsidiary
** EDF Luminus, ...
, in January 2020, Banda was transferred to Chinese
Super League
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club
Shanghai Shengli
The Chinese Women's Super League (CWSL) is the top level women's football league in China. It was called the Chinese Women's National Football League from 2011 to 2014.
History
The league started in 1997 as the Chinese Women's Premier Football L ...
.
In her debut season, she scored 18 goals in 13 league matches to emerge as the
2020 Chinese Women's Super League top scorer.
International career
Junior
Banda represented the
Zambia women's national under-17 football team
Zambia women's national under-17 football team, nicknamed the Junior She-polopolo, represents the country in international under-17 matches. The team has participated in FIFA sanctioned events, including U-17 World Cup qualifiers.
Background
Zamb ...
in the
2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
The 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was the fourth edition of the youth association football tournament for women under the age of 17. The final tournament was hosted in Costa Rica.
The competition was played from 15 March to 4 April 2014. Jap ...
.
Senior
In Zambia's first group stage match at the
2020 Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...
, Banda scored a
hat trick
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against the
Netherlands
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. The match ended 3–10, the worst ever loss for the Zambia women's national football team and the highest-scoring women's football match in Olympics history. In their second group match, Banda scored another hat trick against
China
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with the match ending in a 4–4 draw. She became the first female player in Olympics history to score back-to-back hat tricks and the first to score two hat tricks in one tournament.
On July 6, 2022, Banda was ruled ineligible to compete for Zambia in the
Women's Africa Cup of Nations
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tournament after a gender verification test found that her natural testosterone levels were above those allowed by the
Confederation of African Football
The Confederation of African Football, or CAF for short (french: link=yes, Confédération Africaine de Football, ar, link=yes, الاتحاد الأفريقي لكرة القدم, al-Ittiḥād al-Afrīqī li-Kurat al-Qadam), is the administ ...
, which has stricter
gender verification rules than the Olympics. The ruling sparked significant controversy, with
Human Rights Watch
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describing it as a "clear violation" of her human rights.
International goals
:''Scores and results list Zambia's goal tally first''
Honours
Individual
*
Chinese Women's Super League
The Chinese Women's Super League (CWSL) is the top level women's football league in China. It was called the Chinese Women's National Football League from 2011 to 2014.
History
The league started in 1997 as the Chinese Women's Premier Football L ...
Top scorer:
2020
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References
External links
Profileat Txapeldunak.com
2000 births
Living people
Women's association football forwards
Zambian women's footballers
Sportspeople from Lusaka
Zambia women's international footballers
EdF Logroño players
Primera División (women) players
Chinese Women's Super League players
Zambian expatriate footballers
Zambian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Zambian expatriate sportspeople in China
Expatriate women's footballers in Spain
Expatriate women's footballers in China
Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of Zambia
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