UKZN student selected to play in FIFA Women’s World Cup
The UKZN Sport Science student, Kholosa Biyana, will travel to France this month.
UKZN Sport Science student, Kholosa Biyana, has been chosen as part of the South African national women’s soccer squad, Banyana Banyana, to represent South Africa in the upcoming FIFA Women’s World Cup taking place in France next month from 7 June to 7 July.
Biyana left Durban on Wednesday, 22 May to meet the rest of the Banyana Banyana squad in Johannesburg , and the team left for France on Thursday.
Biyana, who received the news on Friday last week, said she had been looking forward to the announcement which came a day after she arrived back from the United States (US).
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A midfielder, Biyana has 19 caps for Banyana Banyana and has won two COSAFA Cups. She said she had been training hard after suffering two injuries last year.
“The coaches never gave up on me and they kept motivating me. UKZN football has always supported me. My parents have also shown their support even though they were worried that I wouldn’t be able to balance my studies and football,” she said.
She thanked the School of Sport Science for its support in ensuring that she wrote all her tests, submitted assignments and wrote her exams before she left for France. Biyana wrote her last test a day after she arrived from the US, and had to write all her three exams before flying to Johannesburg.
She is also looking forward to representing the University in the world student games taking place in Italy in July.
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