Afghanistan first established a national women's soccer team just five years ago, and while they aren't yet World Cup material, they are making strides. Last week, they got a little help from ...

The players sprint across the field in long-sleeved shirts and ... They said it's not appropriate for a girl to play soccer in Afghanistan. But my father supported me. He was a footballer.

“This soccer field will be their new home here in the ... “We are here, and we’re going to make Afghan women national team soccer again,” Khinjani said.

which got them thinking about how to get back on the field themselves. "They had big hopes for their soccer careers back in Afghanistan, but when the Taliban took over Afghanistan, they were ...

But never have I been more powerfully convinced that anything is possible in sports than a day in the fall of 2021, when I watched the under-18 Afghanistan girls soccer team take the field for a ...

Sayed Reza Hosseini says his English has improved thanks to Saturday games with other refugees and Afghan-Americans on the open field at Shawnee Mission North High School. Informal soccer matches ...

She feared that she would never finish her bachelor’s degree in economics, never open a business as she had hoped and never return to the soccer field or help bring about the day when Afghan ...

Afghanistan first established a national women's soccer team just five years ago, and while they aren't yet World Cup material, they are making strides. Last week, they got a little help from ...

which got them thinking about how to get back on the field themselves. “They had big hopes for their soccer careers back in Afghanistan, but when the Taliban took over Afghanistan, they were ...

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