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00:51it's super it's super super excited we've been excited before as well when
00:56we were playing we started the cocoa like just locally so because I'm in New
01:04Zealand so we live in the Hamilton so we start with the Hamilton team but then we
01:08played against other teams like other districts as well but we never ever
01:14expected this is gonna be our platform this is the biggest ever opportunity
01:19that we got and it's a huge huge achievement I would say so one and only
01:25in life and I never even expected that I'm gonna get this opportunity and I
01:30would just say thanks to God and thanks to Cocoa who has given me this
01:34opportunity to be here
01:42yes
01:45oh it's I I don't even have a words actually to explain how is it feel like
01:51my parents have been you know they're here they live in Ludhiana so they came
01:57here and now they feel so so proud on their daughter when I was just waving
02:02and they was clicking my photo and then making the videos of me and they were
02:06super excited and I could see they got a tears in their eyes when they were
02:10looking at me I think because I'm the only woman with a turban in the whole
02:16entire World Cup who is playing Cocoa
02:21yes so we've been playing Cocoa for last five years at the moment so as I
02:37said that there is a New Zealand sick games that goes every every year at the
02:42moment so we take part in those ones and our clubs also organized a short like a
02:49Cocoa matches so we also participate in those ones at most of the time the
02:54Hamilton team we have we joined the Hamilton youth club so that's where we
02:58are from at the moment and we won most of the matches and after all those I
03:05think they they select the team of 15 girls and in these 15 girls we are a
03:12mums of kids as well I'm as a professional I'm working as a registered
03:18nurse over in one of the hospital in Hamilton but Cocoa is my passion I played
03:24sports since my childhood I played kabaddi I played cricket I played judo
03:30karate handball so everything but Cocoa is my passion and I would say thank you
03:37so much Cocoa you have actually put me you know you have bring me here in this
03:43biggest biggest platform where I never even expected in my whole life thank you
03:50so much that was great
03:55Jyoti ji, you are in Zealand but you are of Indian origin and you speak Hindi very well.
04:01You have come to play Cocoa Boys. Tell us how is the experience?
04:06Sorry, should I speak in Hindi or in English?
04:08Speak in Hindi.
04:09It feels good. I never expected that I would be able to play here like this.
04:15It's something different. There is confidence. It's something different. It feels good here.
04:22Have you ever thought of representing Brazil in a Cocoa World Cup?
04:26Never thought of it.
04:28So what kind of a dream is this? You are living it. You tell us.
04:31I have never played Cocoa before. I started in August. I do gym. I like to go to the gym. I like to play sports. I like to go to the gym.
04:42When I was in the gym, someone told me to try it. Come with us. Like one of the team members.
04:48I went. I liked it. I started playing. Then I got a chance to play in the World Cup. It was very different. So I am representing New Zealand here.