'I’m not that cool. What you saw was completely raw. I was so focused... I turned around, saw everyone running towards me & thought “Oh my god, we’ve won.” TeamMorocco & THFC's Rosella Ayane on her winning penalty kick that made history... WAFCON2022
After clinically slotting it away, she clenched her fist in understated celebration, turned and started walking back towards the centre circle. Then she noticed that the whole stadium in Rabat had exploded and her team-mates were charging around the pitch. She looked a little confused, turned to her left with her palms out as if to say “….What?”
“As I’m walking up to the penalty spot there was a lot of noise, but I just tried to block that out. When the others were taking their penalties I wasn’t thinking about anything other than hoping everyone would score, and that I would score. “I can’t tell you the first part of the conversation because it was in French. I tried to be as respectful as I could and let her speak, because I do understand some French, but as she finished I just thought, ‘I’ve not taken on board anything you’ve said.’
To say Nigeria have historically dominated the tournament would be a flamboyant understatement. They have won nine of the previous 11 official editions of it, their worst-ever performance being fourth place. They were favourites to win a fourth WAFCON title in a row, even without their star player,Hosts Morocco, on the other hand, had never previously even got beyond the group stages.
“People chose when they wanted to take one, and I ended up being fifth,” she says. “It wasn’t pre-determined and it wasn’t something like, ‘I want to go fifth’, it just sort of happened that way. I wasn’t thinking, ‘I’m going to take the winning penalty.'”“Absolutely not. As you can tell by my reaction I’m not someone who loves all the glory, I just wanted to score for the team.”
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