Are FIFA really waiting for Taliban to let girls play football?
When Afghanistan's capital city fell to the Taliban back in 2021, life for women across the country changed overnight… The national women's football team faced the real threat of execution, just for playing the game...
Already in exile, the country's first ever female football captain Khalida Popal - our guest on The Sports Agents today - orchestrated a massive evacuation strategy to get the players out of Kabul and into safety in places like the UK, Portugal and Australia.
Now, FIFA, the world's governing body for football, no longer recognises the team who is set to miss their second major…
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