 White Ribbon Day is on the 23rd of November. We're here with the Western City Wanderers. My name is Lola Bonta. My name is Oriol Riera. And we're get right into it. So why do you play football? I think I play because I love this game. I love the good moments, the bad moments. I think that to go forward to these bad moments, you need to love this game. And I'm here. I'm 32, so I want to play to a 40 minimum, because I love to play. I love to train every day. I go to training, I speak with my teammates. And I think that enjoying football day by day makes me feel very, very happy. Yeah, I would completely agree. I mean, I started out playing numerous sports when I was younger, but soccer was the one I always stuck with. It's competitive. I enjoy every single tackle, every missed shot. It's just everything about the sport, I think, as soon as I step on the pitch, I've loved. So I will probably play. I don't know if I'll play to a 40, but I'm going to keep pushing for sure. You never know, huh? You never know. Never know. We start making money like the men, maybe. Have you ever had an experience or exposure to gender inequality? Yeah, so just touching on kind of what we talked about, I mean, we've always said that women's sport, professional sports have come so far right now, but it just sucks to say that at the standard we've set it at. I think for us in the States, in America, when you're younger, you think, OK, I'm going to make it to college, and that's your end result. Lucky enough for me, the professional league started up right when I was in college, so I was able to go right out. And I mean, I've sacrificed my degree, which is going to give me, that could have given me a stable job, a very well-paying job. But we're discussing, I enjoy soccer so much. It's like, why not keep playing while I'm still fit, while I'm still young? So I would say, obviously, the pay gap is very different, but with all the support from the men right now, and I think on an international basis with our women's international teams doing so much better, I think it will eventually get there. It's just, can we keep pushing it? And how long or how quickly can we get it there? I think about the salary, there are big gaps to improve. In that the lease here in America and Spain also is improving a lot. I think that we have now a lot of TVs that is putting the games, the league, but I think that there are still a big gap to improving salary terms. So you have children, how do you teach your youngsters about equal opportunity in sport? I think that I have two daughters, and not in a sport, I think, in the life. I try to teach them, to give them a good education, a good lifestyle, a good way to live. And this mix, I think, will give them be respectful for everything, be grateful, understand every sport, understand the competition, understand that everyone has the same opportunity, everyone has the same chance to get something. I think that the education when they are very, very young is the first stage that for them will be top to understand. This problem that was bigger before now is getting better, but I think that still there are big, big gaps to improve. Yeah, I completely agree. I mean, when you think about it, sports always teach kids so many different morals, but I think we also have to focus on the education as well. And so if we kind of develop both those aspects, and I'm not speaking just for women as well, female and male, I mean, I think that gap will close quicker than we think. But yeah, it's just teaching the youngsters the morals, like you said, respect with the sports, the competitiveness, but just all developed like that, I think we'll get there. I think now we have a lot of moments that, for example, we start now we have women referees that are starting to be in the male games. So I think that this is very good. This is very good to show to the kids that we have to respect them that if it's a fault, it's a fault, try to give to them or to try to show them the best way to understand the football. It's women, it's male, it doesn't matter. We can play mixed, we can, the men's referees, the women's referees can be there. And I think this, try to show this to the kids, these moments, I think it's the best. Yeah, I completely agree. And I think that's the beautiful thing about the sport that we play, especially males can play it really well, females can play it really well. You play different systems. There's no set rule book to soccer. There's different coaches like implementing different methods and everything. So I think because our sport is so fluid, that's the beautiful part of it. How much have you sacrificed to get to where you are? Yes, going back to this, I've, like I said, when we were younger, you aspire to go to college because playing professional wasn't, it wasn't even possible, it didn't exist. We had our national team, but that's what, 22 girls out of the whole country that are gonna play past that and even then they weren't even getting paid. So I think at that point you just, you have to focus so much on your education as well. So you're not just missing, like they discussed earlier, you're not missing dances or weddings or anything like that. You're missing so much more for practice, for your studies. And then for me, when I did get to college, I accomplished that and then we had a professional league and I'm missing out on relationships and future job security and salaries. So it's obviously difficult. We, so many people go through this, but I think at the end of the day, we did that because we have so much that we love about the sport and we've put so much into it and it's given us so much back. It's like our number one relationship. It's a marriage that's gonna last forever. Yeah, I think that every young player that wants to be a professional footballer or professional in, I think it's not just in football, in every sport. I think that they have to know how much we sacrifice to arrive there. For example, I remember now that I lose a lot of friends when I start to play. I'm from a small town that in 10 years old, I went to Barcelona to play. So I lose everything and I start to have really friends when I was 20. So really, really, I didn't have any relationship, any relation with the friends. They went to the cinema, they went to parties, they went to have fun, just have fun in the afternoons and I was just playing the weekends, playing football and then study because during the week, Monday to Friday, I didn't have time, I arrived. I think the taxi called me at five o'clock and my train was at seven o'clock in Barcelona, so two hours by car going, two hours come back. I arrived 12 o'clock, go to sleep every day, every day, every day. So I think that we sacrifice a lot of things to arrive there but it's what I told you. I think that when you love these sports, when you love being in contact day by day, training, the lifestyle that these sports give you, I think that you can go forward with everything. Yeah, 100%. I definitely would rather play in any game over any movie, any dance because that's how much joy I get out of that. You lose a lot of things but this moment that you play, I think is the best moment. And then when we're done, we're gonna miss out on it so much. We're gonna be wanting to have to get massages. We're gonna be missing those injuries and rehabbing because we dedicated so much time into that. So to wrap it up, what message would you have for a younger version of yourself about leadership and respect? And I think that my principle and the principle that everyone has to know that is everyone, the number one, everyone has to have the same opportunities, the same chance to arrive wherever they want. And these are stars giving respect to everyone. We spoke about women referees that are starting to be in men football, give them respect. Like a father, like parents, when we watch football with young kids that they are mixed, respect them because sometimes the girls are much better than the men's, it happens a lot. So I think that for the young kids, the best is that they have to know that everyone has the same opportunities. Everyone knows that everyone will have the same way to arrive. They need the same opportunities, they need the same facilities and I think it takes time but they will have this in a few years. I think that everyone has to know that the respect is the principle values that everyone has to get. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I was lucky, my dad was, my dad only raised my brother and myself on his own and he was a police officer so respect was something that was instilled at us right away. He made us do martial arts where their whole basis was off respect and consideration. So just knowing that from the beginning and Australians laugh at me all the time when I say ma'am and sir because those aren't common to my knowledge here but that's just what we were told to say, mister and misses and then last name because you respect everybody. It's a form of respect right off the bat. So I would say especially to the youngsters if we instill that it creates a better community right off the bat and the teams in general, like you respect each other, you have a better team. We're just discussing yesterday with the A-league boys is like some of their teammates, they enjoy the most because they're for the boys and they respect each other because they show those characteristics that you want instill in your kids and you're having a coach and your teammates. So I think just with it starting there and them giving a good example of respect, it's gonna go to the younger kids and just develop through there.