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Afghan Women's National Soccer Team - A Woman Who Helped Get Women Out of Afghanistan
A woman named calida popa was one of the founding members of the afghan women's national soccer team. She left the country in two thousand 11, because she had been so outspoken about women's rights. And as it turned out, there was a huge sexual abuse scandal within the national team where the president of theafghan football federation was found to have sexually abused and enraged plyers. So she made all these connections during the sexual abuse case, with lawyers abroad, with fif pro, which is the international union of professional socker players,. They're trying to get these these um abused girls out of the country. It really is, it's an astonishing story of perseverance and
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