A trajetória da guarda-redes e árbitra no futebol moçambicano: Elsa da Graça Mavile

Interview with Elsa da Graça Mavile, referee and former Mozambican goalkeeper, about the challenges of her career in football, held at the Instituto Guimarães Rosa, in Maputo, in 2022, as part of the art exhibition project Football and memory: goalkeeper of Brazil and Mozambique, shown during the World Cup in Qatar. Elsa was born in Maputo, in 1982, where she started playing ball with boys and participating in women’s tournaments between 1997 and 2007.She reached the goal of the national team in 2002. Today, she practices refereeing.

KEYWORDS: Elsa Mavile; Women’s football; Football narratives; Mozambican football; Football and gender.