Debra is Shalukah’s role model through a Football Beyond Borders programme designed to allow girls to ‘own the pitch’
“I’ve got my own personal relationship with football, especially at the elite level,” says 19-year-old Debra Nelson, “but I think, having an organisation that really, really lives by the power of the sport, in itself, strips back football to its bare bones, helps.
“This is what we do, we literally use the power of football to inspire girls, to get girls talking, to get girls active, to get girls enjoying themselves, making positive relationships. Football at the elite level has moved so far and is so removed from that.”
