As numerous as 100 women footballers, including members of the public football platoon, were vacated from Afghanistan, which is under the Taliban, on Thursday on a flight to Doha, the Qatari government said. “ Around 100 footballers & their families including womanish players are on board,” Lolwah Al-Khater, Qatar’s assistant foreign minister, said in a tweet.
Sky Sports News reported that the group includes at least 20 public women’s platoon footballers. The players along with other expatriates were taken to a emulsion to suffer coronavirus testing. It’s unclear how long they will stay in Qatar.
FIFA, the football’s world governing body, has been working nearly with the Qatar government to coordinate the evacuation of players from Afghanistan. FIFPRO, the transnational players’ union, in August helped secure seats on a flight out of Kabul for players from the Afghanistan women’s public platoon. After the Afghan government fell in August and the Taliban took back control of Kabul after 20 times, enterprises were raised for the safety of women athletes.
Khalida Popal, the former Afghan women’s football platoon captain, indeed prompted players still in Afghanistan to burn their sports gear and cancel their social media accounts to avoid damages from the Taliban governance. Numerous of the country’s womanish footballers have gone into caching since the Taliban’s preemption.
In August soon after the Taliban took over the country, a former player in the Afghanistan women’s public soccer platoon Fanoos Basir fled and said there was no future for her under the Taliban rule.”We had lots of dreams for our country, for our future, for the future of women in Afghanistan. This was our agony, that the Taliban would come and capture all of Afghanistan. There’s no future for women. for now,” she told Reuters outside the event centre, where she arrived after being vacated from Kabul on a French-systematized flight.
Last month, women players from Afghanistan’s inferior public platoon crossed the border into Pakistan. The girls spent weeks in hiding amid fears of a crackdown on women’s rights by the Taliban, according to reports.
The last time the Taliban ruled over Afghanistan, women were barred from taking part in sport, or from working outside the home, and had to cover themselves from head to toe when in public. The Islamist movement was ousted in the US- led irruption in 2001, but 20 times latterly has taken power again.