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NICOLETTE AGEVA: For me to score a goal in front of my home country I was very excited and also proud of myself.
VINNIE WYLIE: Scoring a goal in this tournament, is that something you had dreamed about or had thought about?
NA: Yeah, it was my dream and also our coach, after having a meeting with us before we played North Korea, she told me that tomorrow (Sunday) will be our game so I wanted to score and I wanted to give all the best to make sure that I score a goal and give us our aim for yesterday's game to just score one goal for our country so when I go out there I did all my best.
VW: How do you players feel after three games? What's the feeling in the PNG team: are you proud, are you sad that it's over, excited, motivated - what's the feeling in the team?
NA: I'm really proud of my team, my girls...we did all our best to train so we still gave all our best so when we qualified for FIFA Under 20 we can show everyone that Papua New Guinea can do it too.
VW: Papua New Guinea hosting this tournament - do you think that will encourage more young women, more young girls in Papua New Guinea to play football?
NA: This tournament, it will bring the level of football in Papua New Guinea up and also motivate other girls to get playing soccer too.
VW: You're also the only player in the PNG team from Bougainville. How proud are you to represent the people of Bougainville?
NA: I'm really proud of my people and my fans out there they are very excited about me and I'm really proud of them. My aim is to give back to my home province of Bougainville and influence women's football in my province and the country as a whole.
VW: So what's the next goal for you and what's the next goal for the team?
NA: As a team that we keep training and we will maintain this team so we can play against New Zealand and qualify so we can build our own team to represent out country in the FIFA Under 20 World Cup for the next upcoming World Cup.
