Melbourne,
\nAfghan women football team has competed in local league for the first time since fleeing from Taliban Government on Sunday.
\nThe match went drawn on zero score from both sides as Afghan goal disallowed for being offside in amateur match in Victoria.
\nThis 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.
\nAccording the AFP Nilab: the team captain says, \u201cthe game showed that the Taliban could not stop the players,\u201d she also liked that the teammates did not show their family who lives in Afhganistan.
\n\u201cWe fled the country but we are still thinking and working for our victory and our country,\u201d she say, and added \u201cwe still continue our fight and our combat just to play for the Afghanistan people.\u201d
\nAustralia helped dozens of Afghan national women\u2019s team players and their relatives to escape when the Taliban swept back to power eight months ago.
\nThe Taliban have since severely curtailed the freedoms of women, banning girls\u2019 education and preventing women frome even boarding planes without a male realtives.
\nAs players fled to different countries, the women\u2019s national team was fragmented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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