The Women of Football: Daring to Dream in Iran | Close Up

In Iran, girls can’t enter stadiums as spectators, however these Afghan sisters dream of a spot on the sidelines as coaches.

Rozma Ghafouri is a girl on a mission.

“I’m making an attempt to remove discrimination. Soccer is a technique to talk. It’s a bridge,” says the 30-year-old soccer supervisor and coach of the lads’s soccer staff, Ariana.

At the moment, she makes use of the ability of sports activities to get weak refugee boys off the streets of Iran, out of labor, into colleges and enjoying soccer.

She and her sisters work with younger refugees and undocumented Afghans, kids who remind them of their very own previous.

Ghafouri fled Afghanistan as a younger lady together with her household when the Taliban took management of the nation in 1996. As kids, she and her sisters needed to work to help the household.

“Nobody supported us … Now, I prefer to be the one to assist these youngsters.”

In a rustic the place girls’s participation in soccer has lengthy been severely restricted – even attending matches has been a problem for greater than 40 years – our movie follows Rozma and her sisters as they go to extraordinary lengths to handle and coach Ariana.

Credit:

A movie by Katayoun Arsanjani

Cinematography: Gelareh Kiazand

Sound: Babak Akhavan

Native producer: Sara Eslamie

Editors: Arash Zahedi & Antonia Perello

EP: Tierney Bonini

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