When Barbara Banda scored her third goal of the match, the Zambian women's team achieved a score-breaking comeback and the new Olympic team danced on the spot to celebrate. This is their happiness, they are the first people in the history of Zambia women's football to stand on the Olympic field, and the top scorer Banda is the person who scored the most goals in the history of the Olympic Games. Who is Banda? For the girls of the Chinese women's football team, she is very familiar with her, she is the foreign aid who plays for the Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank of the Women's Super League, and she is the winner of the Women's Super Golden Boot.
How familiar is Banda with Chinese women's football? After the Chinese women's football team's list for the Tokyo Olympics was released, she once expressed her opinion on her personal social platform, and when she learned that several veteran players were missing the list, she wrote: "Is this a joke with me? It seems that in Banda's heart, there is already a strongest lineup of Chinese women's football that she believes.
Now that the Women's Team Stage at the Tokyo Olympics has been two games out, Banda has scored six goals, including one penalty. Before that, for everyone, Zambia women's football team was a strange team, when they began to unveil the mystery on the Olympic field, they showed the simplest happiness and the most tenacious spirit. And Banda is the creator and guide of this happiness. Whether it is the first match against the world's fourth-ranked Dutch women's football team, or this battle against the Chinese women's football team, there is no way to stop Banda's personal performance. At only 21 years old, she first turned the Dutch defense upside down, and then in front of many old acquaintances in the Women's Super League, she made the Chinese women's football team take this 1 point very dangerously.
'He told me that if I have a talent in football or if I like to play, I should focus on it. Banda's father had told her this when she was young, and when she got on the road to playing football, she never stopped. Banda began her career in Spain at the age of 18, when she was the only Zambian women's footballer to play overseas. At the beginning of 2020, Banda came to China to join the women's super league team Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank, and showed his talent and bravery when he first arrived. For the opponent's defense, Banda is simply a terrifying presence. In the 2020 Women's Super League, Banda scored a total of 18 goals, and finally helped Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank to win the third place in the league, and she herself also won the Golden Boot.
Also in 2020, Banda led the Zambian women's football team as the captain to eliminate the Cameroon women's football team in the qualifiers, and got the ticket to the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the team appeared in the Olympic arena for the first time in its history.
Today, the Zambian women's football team has won the first point in Olympic history, and Banda has temporarily led the top scorers after two rounds of group matches. No matter where the Zambian women's football team can go in the end, it is already happy enough for them, and Banda has further established his position in the team that no one can replace. What's more, she is only 21 years old, and she still has too many good years to play on the football field.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Wang Fan
Editor/Yingchuan Zhang