Global sportwear brand PUMA has signed partnerships with star South African women footballers Noko Matlou and Nomvula Kgoale.
37-year-old defender Matlou plays for Spanish Primera Federación side SD Eibar. She has represented the South African national team 161 times as both as a striker and a defender, and in 2008 became the first South African to be named African Women’s Footballer of the Year.
Matlou wears PUMA Ultra boots and fancies her PUMA Mayze sneakers, saying that “PUMA are a big brand that always puts the athlete first”.
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She’s also touched on her time in Spain.
“Being so far from home in a foreign country, I needed to become mentally tougher,” said Matlou. “That has helped me to deal with different challenges on and off the pitch. I’m now a much better person, focused and always looking for opportunities to challenge myself.”
27-year-old defender Kgoale also plays in Spain for CD Parquesol and has made just one appearance for Banyana Banyana.
Kgoale, who wears PUMA Future “for control”, also likes her Mayze sneakers and what PUMA brings to the partnership.
“It’s a grand brand,” she said. “But who they are as human beings behind the brand was important. So, how they received my agent and spoke to her as an individual is what made me say they are my number one. The assumption is that she is me, so how they address her is how they’ll address me.”
Both Matlou and Kgoale are in the Banyana Banyana squad at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
