GAME-CHANGER
SOUTH AFRICAN COACH SHILENE BOOYSEN HAS embarked on a career path of a different kind that has seen her take on the role of coach of the South Sudan women’s national football team, hoping to develop the game for girls in one of Africa’s poorest countries.
Booysen is a hugely respected figure in coaching on the continent having helped South Africa to the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup as a highly-valued analyst alongside head coach Desiree Ellis.
Booysen also worked in the best women’s football domestic competition in the world in the same role with National Women’s Soccer League side Houston Dash in the United States.
It might seem strange then that she has
