The football star relates: I was forced to strip, strip to prove that I was a woman

Chawinga, who became the first football player from Malawi to sign contract with a European team when she joined the Swedish team Krokom/Dvarsatts IF in 2014, said they had forced her to strip in public during a match to prove she was a woman.

She added that she was constantly harassed in social media for her appearance, reports Guardian, translates Periscopi.

I don't want others to experience the same thing. That makes me think if they offended someone who just met him on the football field, what they would do to me if I was part of their family. Would they kill me?

The 25-year-old girl, who was captain of the Malaui national team and was ranked among the world's top 100 football players, said that while playing for a team of girls for a school team, she had been forced to strip before the opposing team to prove to be a girl. Opposers did not believe that she was a girl because of her physical appearance and the reason she played very well.

I've never been more devastated and cried because of the shame I had to be exposed.

She added that she had left football for a year because of that episode.

The same thing happened to him a year later when he played for the Lilongwe team.

We were taking part in a Presidential Cup match and for the first time we traveled to Blanch to play against Blanca Zero. It was very difficult, difficult game, and while we were playing games, I had to get naked right on the playing field,” said Chawinga. /Periscope