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The marvelous story of the Tanzania Women's National Team. The team is not professional, is inexpert: they are not at the hight level of the other teams against they play in the African World League, but considering the environment and circumstances this team is in, this is where the challenge begins. To play a sport in a developing country, especially when your target is composed mainly of young women from low income areas/families, implies to deal on a daily basis with poverty linked issues. Lack of money, job, and schooling, are the daily problems you have to face well before even thinking of people, especially girls, picking up a hockey stick. What do you answer to a girl wanting to join practices but not having the money to come to the field? Or coming bare-foot to the pitch to train? How do you deal with it? Or when a girl just "disappear", only for you to later find out that family didn't allow her to come practicing because "it's just a lack of time" distracting her from domestic working