{"id":31891,"date":"2025-09-25T07:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=31891"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:20:46","slug":"afghan-womens-refugee-football-team-set-for-october-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/afghan-womens-refugee-football-team-set-for-october-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan women&#8217;s refugee football team set for October debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>DUBAI, Sept 24, 2025: The Afghan women&#8217;s refugee team will make their international debut next month at a tournament in the United Arab Emirates, FIFA said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA Council at football&#8217;s world governing body approved the creation of the refugee team in May as part of efforts to support women players inside and outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan side will feature in a competition in Dubai on October 23-29 that also includes the women&#8217;s teams of hosts the UAE, Chad and Libya.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ensuring that all women have access to football is a priority for FIFA and a key element in shaping the future of our sport,&#8221; FIFA president Gianni Infantino said.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban authorities have been back in power for four years in Afghanistan after ousting a US-backed government and have drawn international criticism for their human rights record, particularly the treatment of women.<\/p>\n<p>Women and girls are banned from most education and work, and also barred from parks and gyms.<\/p>\n<p>Under Scottish coach Pauline Hamill the Afghan team have conducted talent ID camps, including in England and Sydney, to pick out players to represent the side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, Sept 24, 2025: The Afghan women&#8217;s refugee team will make their international debut next month at a tournament in the United Arab Emirates, FIFA said on Wednesday. The FIFA Council at football&#8217;s world governing body approved the creation of the refugee team in May as part of efforts to support women players inside and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31893,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31891\/revisions\/31893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}