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PSG star Tabitha Chawinga of Malawi overcomes obstacles en route to Champions League success

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Paris Saint-Germain forward Tabitha Chawinga faced challenges as a young soccer player growing up in Malawi. Her parents disapproved and wanted her to stop playing. As a teenager, Chawinga was once forced to remove her clothes on the field to prove to the other team that she’s female.

FILE - PSG’s Tabitha Chawinga celebrates after scoring during the women’s Champions League group C soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain in Munich, Germany, on Jan. 30, 2024. Paris Saint-Germain forward Tabitha Chawinga faced challenges as a young soccer player growing up in Malawi . Her parents disapproved and wanted her to stop playing.

She’s filled up the scoresheet at each stop and this season has helped PSG reach the semifinals of the Women’s Champions League, facing French rival Lyon on Saturday. “I watch Marta many times, so I was like, ‘One day I will be like this player,’” she says of the Brazil great. “Let me just encourage myself even if my mom and my dad they don’t allow me. It was a very big challenge ... until I leave my parents’ house to go to the city to start playing football with the girls.

Chawinga has secured several firsts for her country including the first Malawian to play in the Women’s Champions League and

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