Play FIFA Like A Girl workshop on 4 March 2023
The inaugural Play FIFA Like A Girl workshop last year was a great success, which was run by Sam “Tech Girl†Wright and Goliath Gaming’s Gabbi Brondani Rego. The Play FIFA Like A Girl workshop returns in 2023 to empower girls and women in gaming and provide female FIFA players a way to take their gameplay into the esports world. Here’s what you need to know.
FIFA Play Like a Girl 2023
The 2023 event will be hosted in Johannesburg by Sam “Tech Girl†Wright and Busisiwe Masango-Steenkamp. The latter was scouted at the first workshop and plays for Goliath Gaming. Registrations are now open and completely free. You can register by heading to the FIFA Play Like a Girl 2023 page on South African tournament organizer Mettlestate’s website.
Spaces are limited, so be sure to sign up as soon as possible. The FIFA Play Like a Girl workshop takes place on 4 March 2023, hosted at the Mettlestate studio in Johannesburg. It will focus on girls and women age 15 years and up who are serious about competitive FIFA.
Via a Press Release we’ve received, Tech Girl explains:
“The Play FIFA Like A Girl concept was created with the intention of providing a safe and supportive space for women and girls to either learn to play FIFA or to improve on their skills, as well as to cultivate a stronger community of female FIFA players in SA. Consoles were provided for everyone to jam on, with some of South Africa’s top pro FIFA players from Goliath Gaming joining to coach the gamers who wanted to take their competitive FIFA to the next level. With all of that in mind, it was important for us to find a way to take Play FIFA Like a Girl to the next level.
The Goliath Gaming pro players at the first event scouted Busi and after playing a few matches against her convinced their organisation to keep an eye on her and consider signing the FIFA player because of her talent. I wanted to help Busi and other women work towards being competitive in the various FIFA esports tournaments in the country, and hopefully
internationally too. We see no women signing up for these competitions and I truly believe that to build women in esports they need to be competing not only at women-specific events but also the current events taking placeâ€
This is a fantastic initiative, to say the least, and we can’t help but wonder if at the FIFA Play Like a Girl workshop for 2023, the next big South African FIFA esports star will be uncovered!
Header image via Tech Girl.
