8am: The trip of the Omid National Team to Bahrain has been canceled. Afghanistan’s Football Federation has said that the team has been deprived of preliminary competition for the Asian championship. Click here to read more (external link). Other Sports News Afghans eagerly gear up to watch their team face off against Scotland in T20
Jafar Haand Roshan Noorzai VOA News October 24, 2021 WASHINGTON — Women athletes in Afghanistan say the Taliban’s return to power has put an end to their dreams of playing sports at the national and international levels. “It is over,” said 21-year-old Homaira Barakzai, the captain of Afghanistan’s national handball team, adding that “Everything has changed
Mahjabeen's family was threatened not to speak to the media. And change the narrative that she comitted sucide. She did not. https://t.co/83riNVkqyh — Sarfaraz (@Sarfaraz1201) October 21, 2021 New York Post: She was killed earlier this month, but her death remained mostly hidden because her family had been threatened not to talk, claimed the coach,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 21, 2021 World soccer’s governing body FIFA says a second group of 57 Afghan refugees linked to women’s soccer and basketball has been evacuated from Afghanistan to Qatar. The group, comprising women and children, landed in Doha on October 20 on a Qatar Airways flight, FIFA said in a statement on October
Ariana: Afghanistan registered a win in the second set of warm-up games of the day ahead of the Super 12 stage of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 on Wednesday night. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: The strife-torn nation’s remarkable rise has been cricket’s biggest fairytale story in recent times but Afghanistan risk isolation following the country’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan [IEA] takeover in August. According to the report Cricket Australia (CA) has already threatened to scrap next month’s one-off test in Hobart between the men’s teams if the new
Reuters: World soccer’s governing body FIFA said on Friday it had worked with the Qatari government to evacuate almost 100 football players and their families from Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link).
New York Post: The team tried desperately and fruitlessly to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport amid the frantic US evacuation, according to team member Soraya Karimi, 25, who was also a law student and rights activist, as well as the proud daughter of a woman police officer. Still, each time they got close to
Hindustan Times: Afghanistan risk isolation since the country’s Taliban takeover in August, with Cricket Australia threatening not to host them for a one-off test in Hobart next month if the new government in Kabul did not allow women to play the sport. The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has said it is committed to women’s cricket
Tolo News: “The main reason for the halt in 3Sport operations was the restrictions being imposed on all media and specifically 3Sport,” said Shafiqullah Saleem Poya, head of the organization, to TOLOnews on Sunday. “The media has been struggling with other problems in the social, economic and political areas also.” Click here to read more