Tolo News: A group of athletes from different parts of the country gathered in Herat on Thursday to resume the buzkashi competitions in the province that ceased six years ago. Buzkashi – which literally means goat-dragging in Persian – is the Central Asian sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to drag a goat or calf
Tolo News: Afghan mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Hussain Bakhsh Safari defeated his Russian rival Peter Berg in a fight on Saturday. The two are in the 65 kg weight class, and fought inside a cage in Moscow. Safari won all three rounds and with high scores. The 21-year-old Safari is an MMA fighter and Ju-Jitsu
Ariana: Afghan National Muay Thai Team won one gold, one silver, and two bronze medals from the Asian Championships. The International Federation of Muaythai Associations held the 2019 Asian Championships in Abu Dhabi of United Arabs of Emirates. Abu Dhabi hosted 300 athletes from 36 countries. Seven athletes, one coach, and two referees represented Afghanistan in this
Tolo News: Afghan Muay Thai fighters got three gold medals at a competition hosted by the Uzbekistan Muay Thai Federation which was held in Tashkent from December 11 to 14. A team of five Muay Thai fighters from “Team B” of the national squad attended the event. The athletes also got a silver and a bronze
1TV: Asghar Afghan has been reappointed as the captain of Afghanistan cricket team across all formats, the country’s cricket board announced on Wednesday. Asghar replaced Rashid Khan who served in the role since July this year. Rashid has been appointed as vice-captain. Click here to read more (external link). Related Gulbadin Naib says will not play
Tolo News: The Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) on Monday was awarded the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) Grassroots Charter Bronze Membership for the development of grassroots football. The Grassroots Charter is a development tool for Member Associations (MA) to raise the quality of their grassroots programs, according to the AFC, which identifies 20 performance categories such as
AP: Two decades after fleeing Taliban-ruled Afghanistan with her family, Nadia Nadim is ready to go home. The risks are worth it for the 31-year-old Nadim, who is planning her first trip back to Afghanistan since leaving the country as a child. She is hoping to change mindsets and inspire girls to follow her onto the soccer
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan December 3, 2019 Former Afghan football official Mohammad Hanif Sediqi Rustam has been banned from the sport for five years and fined 10,000 Swiss francs after being found guilty by FIFA’s ethics committee of violations relating to the abuse of female players. FIFA said Sediqi Rustam was a former assistant
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s U19 National Cricket Team beat India by two wickets in a low-scoring Youth ODI series on Saturday in India’s Lucknow. India has won the series after beating Afghanistan 3-2 in the series. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV: Afghan U-19 cricket team defeated India by three wickets in their third One-Day International match in Lucknow on Tuesday. The win was Afghanistan’s first in the five-match ODI series which India leads 2-1. Their next match will be on November 28. Click here to read more (external link). Other Cricket News Afghanistan Announces Squad for