Tacko Diabira: Go to the end of the world to live her passion

Entering the game on Saturday during the match between her Dakar team Sacré Coeur and the Determine Girls of Liberia (beaten 2-1), the Mauritanian could have killed the suspense with a golden opportunity but she missed this opportunity but not her desire to make football a means of social advancement.

In Mauritania where traditions are strong, the 22-year-old Tacko Diabira did not make the easiest choice by deciding to play football.

"Yes, we must admit that it is not easy to make such a choice and in the family, only an aunt played basketball," explained the young Mauritanian who spent most of her time teasing the balloon with the boys.

"It did not always go to the level of certain members of the family but my parents were more receptive," she said, stressing that they were also at a certain time, her greatest supporters.

But, the practice of football must be accompanied by studies, decided in the heart of the father according to Tacko Diabira.

Thanks to this support, she was able to be part of the Mauritanian selection having played international tournaments in Tunisia and Spain but that cannot be enough for her "given the weakness of women's football in my country".

`` One thing led to another and after researching the Internet, I came across AS Dakar Sacré Coeur who had ambitions to launch something big in women's football, '' said the Mauritanian international who arrived five months later. early in Senegal where part of his family lives.

'' I did not waste time because I was quickly integrated into the team which had talent and experience, '' she said, stressing that the Senegalese women's championship is on the rise. higher than what is done in Mauritania.

Senegal's league victory opened the prospect of the African Champions League qualifying tournament and Tacko Diabira, a fan of Parisian Kadidiatou Diané, does not want to spare any effort to play this first major women's competition on the agenda of continental women's football.

'' We are in Cape Verde to play the qualification and be sure, we will give everything to get there, '' said the 22-year-old Mauritanian international who graciously agreed to continue his studies in computer science in a private school. of the Senegalese capital.

"It was also to respect the directives of my family," she said, welcoming the opportunity offered by this tournament to tease the top female level.

"It's like national team matches and we will take the matches one after the other to achieve our goals," she added.

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