Five young women are staring anxiously at a laptop. This is the call they’ve long been waiting for. A flurry of mixed emotions takes over as they each learn they have been selected by FIFA for the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Four years after players from the Afghanistan women's national team fled their homeland amid the ...

The Taliban made women's sports illegal in 2021 when the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, but it hasn't stopped a group of ...

ZURICH (AP) — The Afghanistan national women's soccer team of refugee players has its first official games next month at a four-team tournament in Dubai, FIFA said Wednesday. The FIFA-supported team — ...

July 14, 2006 — -- Awista Ayub has brought the universal sport of soccer to Afghan girls -- a landmark idea, considering that just five years ago girls in Afghanistan were not even allowed to ...

Four years after players from the Afghanistan women's national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban's takeover, a number of the teammates are representing their country again in a soccer ...

ZURICH (AP) — The Afghanistan national women’s soccer team of refugee players has its first official games next month at a four-team tournament in Dubai, FIFA said Wednesday. The FIFA-supported team — ...