Where is the Afghanistan team in the Women’s World Cup?

Afghanistan’s women’s national football team fled Taliban rule

While the world’s eyes turned to New Zealand and Australia to follow the Women’s World Cup, others turned to the Afghanistan national football team, which escaped the Taliban regime that came to power in August 2021 with the help of Melbourne Victory, who play in the Australian league.

In a kind and wonderful gesture, the Afghanistan national team players were enthusiastic For women’s footballPrior to his match against Germany, he had been beaten by 6 clean sheets at the start of his career in B.2022 Women’s World Cup.

The Afghanistan women’s national team was founded in 2007, played its first official international match against Nepal in 2010, and won its first match against Qatar in 2012, winning 2–0.

Afghan women soccer players in Melbourne (Getty Images)

The Taliban’s rise and the subsequent desertion of players forced the team out of the Asian Women’s Cup qualifiers in India.

Expulsion of women players

35 women were evicted from there Afghan football team In November 2021, the women and their families, 130 in total, traveled to the UK via Pakistan.

Female soccer players in Afghanistan are at risk from the Taliban, and some fear they will be punished for participating in a sport the Taliban regime considers “un-Islamic.”

“Akbar Al-An” at that time met many Afghan women soldiers who wanted to escape from the shadow of the Taliban regime and sent a message to the international community to get them out.

Women’s World Cup

After the first defeat against Germany, the Moroccan national team will face the only Arab representative Korea national team on Saturday before meeting Colombia next August third.

Australia and New Zealand will host the 32-team World Cup from July 20 to August 20, 2023, for the first time in the tournament’s history, which expanded from 12 teams in the 1990s to 16 in 1999.

Morocco vs Germany in Women’s World Cup (AFP)

Italy’s Pierluigi Collina has decided the head referees’ panel headed by Italy’s Pierluigi Collina for Saturday’s Group E match between the United States and Vietnam in the Women’s World Cup, which will be held in New Zealand and Australia from today to August 20 for the Moroccan women’s refereeing team.

Women in Afghanistan

For its part, the United Nations and its humanitarian partners have urged the authorities to reopen secondary schools for girls and to end all measures that prevent women and girls from fully participating in public life.

The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said the ban on women attending university was a continuation of “the Taliban’s systematic policies of targeted discrimination against women”.

The mission added in its statement: “Preventing half the population from contributing meaningfully to society and the economy will have a devastating impact on the entire country. It will expose Afghanistan to further international isolation, economic hardship and suffering, and will affect millions of people for years to come.”