Botswana woman’s national team’s striker Thuto ‘ Verrah’ Ramafifi is set to miss the 2018 Cosafa senior woman champions scheduled for Port Elizabeth in  South Africa on the 12-22 September 2018. Verrah has accepted a scholarship to study and play at Salem University in West Virginia in the United States of America.

The 26-year-old is set to the jet off on Tuesday 21st August 2018  to start her new life and join her team in preparation for preseason and the new academic year. She expressed her delight at the move but deeply disappointed in not representing her country at the Cosafa championship. She highlighted they will be more opportunities in the future.

Ramafifi will be no strangers to flying the blue black and white abroad as she has played in Namibia woman’s league before. Verrah believes her move will open doors for more female footballers in the country as our woman’s football continue to evolve, she also edged the Football Association to speedup formalizing a football strategy that will benefit the talent Botswana has.

Botswana Football Association woman’s desk officer Barobi Ngwako commended Thuto for her achievement and Highlighted that such moves are key towards the growth of the woman’s game locally and go to show that the BFA must do more to elevate woman’s football.

Ngwako said the BFA was extremely proud of Thuto Ramafifi and wished her all the best in the.