Luna
Causholli

Sonore 1
I actually played football with the boys from my neighbourhood. Back then, there were no teams for girls. Every time my dad and I tried to look for one, there were only boys’ teams — and they wouldn’t let girls join.
So I played with the neighbourhood boys instead, and we just made it work, playing whenever we could. The boys were usually five or six years older than me — I was ten or eleven at the time.
I played well enough — at least I never broke anyone’s nose heading the ball. I absolutely loved football, it was a real passion. Until the moment I thought, either I keep doing this, or I do something even more beautiful.
And that’s when music came into my life.
That’s when I let football go — also because I no longer had a team to play with.

Sonore 2
When I started elementary school, already in first grade, I was bullied a lot because I played football and was “like a boy”.
But I was just being myself, and I had to stay true to who I was.
That was a difficult time for me, but thank God my family was there. They were always there whenever I faced something hard.

Sonore 3
We girls want to be exactly who we want to be.
I can be calm. I can be spiritual. I can be feminine. But I can also be rebellious, I can also be masculine.
I can also be that girl who really loved football — and that’s okay.
But the truth is, I’m really happy to be a girl.

Sonore 4
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Sonore 5
In the world we live in, we face difficulties. But one way or another, we girls always manage to get through.
No matter what kind of hardships we face in life — whether they come from boys or from other girls — we still find a way forward.

Sonore 6
There is this word: “girlhood.”

Sonore 7
And it’s the most beautiful thing to see girls supporting girls.
Being together, laughing together, having each other’s backs.
It’s something very beautiful, very rare — and honestly, not so easy to find these days.

Sonore 8
“No, she doesn’t dress well. No, she dresses like a boy. No, she wears makeup. This one does this, that one does that…”
I don’t care. It doesn’t interest me.
Or, to put it another way — excuse the expression — I don’t give a shit.

Sonore 9
Here in Albania, people judge all the time. They judge…
As if they didn’t already have enough going on in their own lives, and needed to interfere in someone else’s — just to make it harder.

Sonore 10
Sometimes I feel like the world will never fully understand gender equality.
It will never truly understand that women are who they are — and that they should be valued, not judged.
But we girls, one way or another, will end up telling them: Stop. Enough. You’ve judged us enough.
We’re here now.
And we’re going to do our best — to be the best versions of ourselves.