The Afghan National Girls Youth Football team, its coaches, and their families were facing threats from the Taliban.
This March 8, 2016 file photo shows Khalida Popal, the former Afghanistan national women’s team captain, in Copenhagen. The footballers in the Afghanistan women’s team Popal helped to establish now fear for their lives after the Taliban swept to power recently.
A month after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Afghanistan’s young female footballers, along w
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