Melbourne,
Afghan women football team has competed in local league for the first time since fleeing from Taliban Government on Sunday.
The match went drawn on zero score from both sides as Afghan goal disallowed for being offside in amateur match in Victoria.
This match was a symbolic and powerful victory for the Afghan women team who came back on pitch together on Sunday for the first time after leaving Afghanistan.
According the AFP Nilab: the team captain says, “the game showed that the Taliban could not stop the players,” she also liked that the teammates did not show their family who lives in Afhganistan.
“We fled the country but we are still thinking and working for our victory and our country,” she say, and added “we still continue our fight and our combat just to play for the Afghanistan people.”
Australia helped dozens of Afghan national women’s team players and their relatives to escape when the Taliban swept back to power eight months ago.
The Taliban have since severely curtailed the freedoms of women, banning girls’ education and preventing women frome even boarding planes without a male realtives.
As players fled to different countries, the women’s national team was fragmented.
