“My team-mates are my sisters. Our dream is to play together again, standing side by side.” In June 2021, Fatima Foladi was a rising football star in Afghanistan when she scored against Tajikistan in ...

The Afghan women’s football team, once forced into hiding by the Taliban, is now preparing for international competition, a testament to their unwavering spirit and a significant victory for women’s ...

After years of fleeing, fighting, advocating and training, Afghanistan's women have won the right to compete for football's biggest prizes as their country's official national team. An unprecedented ...

An Afghan women’s refugee team lost 6-1 to Chad in a FIFA-organised tournament in Morocco on Sunday, but, for the players, the match itself represented a victory after being denied the chance to play ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Afghan refugee players participated in the first of three global talent identification camps in Sydney last month as ...

United States-based female refugee soccer players from Afghanistan will not have access to FIFA-organised training camps that determine the selection process for the newly-created Afghanistan women’s ...

Fatima Haidari was sat at home in Italy when she received a video call from Fifa chief Gianni Infantino. On the screen alongside the captain of the Afghan women’s football team, spread across time ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Khalida Popal, the former captain of the Afghanistan women's national team, celebrated the team's reinstatement in what she described as a "historical moment" after a ...

BURTON UPON TRENT, England, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Elaha Safdari was 17 and had just earned her maiden call-up as a goalkeeper for Afghanistan's women's football team when she was forced to flee Kabul ...

The Afghan women's refugee team will participate in its first-ever international tournament in October. The upcoming FIFA Unites: Women's Soccer will kick off in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on ...