Zimbabwe's Journalist-Footballer Ready for Rio

Just over a year ago, Zimbabwe international Rudo Neshamba took a hard look at her football career and did not like what she saw. She decided to enrol in a two-year journalism course at a college in Harare, and she continues to work on that goal, but the 24-year-old now has a more dramatic task at hand: helping the Mighty Warriors make an impact at the Women's Olympic Football Tournament Rio 2016.

Neshamba and the southern Africans were shock qualifiers for the finals, and the draw did them no favours - pitting them against 2012 bronze medallists Canada, two-time world champions Germany and a rapidly-improving Australia. But befitting her other life as a storyteller, Neshamba realises that Zimbabwe's outsider status should help them work their way into the event.

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