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Exiled from their homeland, Afghanistan's women's national team begins their journey back to international football
An Afghan refugee women's team is training to compete in its first domestic Australian football season in Melbourne.
Afghan basketball star finds hope in Spain after fleeing Taliban
BILBAO, Spain : Six months after fleeing Taliban rule in her homeland, Nilofar Bayat, former captain of the Afghanistan women's wheelchair basketball team, is slowly adjusting to a new life in Spain.
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Afghanistan women’s football team reunite with hopes of competing in Australia
Early on a suitably idyllic Melbourne morning, 18 Afghan footballers and one referee took to the field at the Darebin International Sports Centre. The group were training under the banner of their nation’s women’s team for the first time since being forced to flee their homeland last August. It was an innocuous session, featuring the warm-ups, drills and team talks replicated at grounds around the world.
Soccer-COVID pandemic cost European clubs 7 billion euros: UEFA study
(Reuters) - A study by governing body UEFA showed the COVID-19 pandemic cost European clubs seven billion euros ($7.91 billion) across two seasons even as player wages at top sides rose by 2% to 11.9 billion euros ($13.45 billion) during the period.
‘I am losing my skills’: female boxer who was on Afghan national team
*Mariam and her sister were on the national boxing team and the youth boxing team. They were ordered by the Taliban to stop practising, and are frightened they may be targeted in future. The interview was interrupted by a hail of gunshots near the place they are staying.