{"id":20647,"date":"2025-05-11T14:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T09:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyar.tv\/?p=20647"},"modified":"2025-12-02T04:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:24:02","slug":"%d9%81%db%8c%d9%81%d8%a7-%d8%aa%db%8c%d9%85-%d9%81%d9%88%d8%aa%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%be%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%87%d8%ac%d9%88%db%8c-%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%ba%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%b3%d8%aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/20647\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA to Form Afghan Women\u2019s Refugee Football Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FIFA has announced plans to create a women\u2019s football team made up of Afghan refugees living outside Afghanistan. The team will take part in friendly matches, but it will not be recognized as Afghanistan\u2019s official national team and will not compete in Women\u2019s World Cup qualifiers or the AFC Women\u2019s Championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move comes as Afghan women have been effectively barred from all sports inside the country since 2021, when the Taliban returned to power. The national women\u2019s team last played an official competitive match in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FIFA says its Council has approved a new strategy to support Afghan women\u2019s football, which includes forming a squad under the name <em>Afghanistan Women\u2019s Refugee Team<\/em>. According to FIFA\u2019s statement, the organization is in direct talks with the players concerned and aims to begin the team\u2019s activities as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the Afghanistan Football Federation is obligated under FIFA statutes to support women\u2019s sports and oppose any form of discrimination, it has not fulfilled these commitments\u2014and has not been suspended by FIFA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite this initiative, many exiled Afghan players continue to call for full recognition and the chance to compete internationally as Afghanistan\u2019s official national team. That demand has not yet been met, but some observers believe the creation of a refugee team could be a first step toward bringing Afghan women back to the global football stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA has announced plans to create a women\u2019s football team made up of Afghan refugees living outside Afghanistan. The team will take part in friendly matches, but it will not be recognized as Afghanistan\u2019s official national team and will not compete in Women\u2019s World Cup qualifiers or the AFC Women\u2019s Championship. The move comes as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,50],"tags":[1416,1415,319,1414,155,320],"class_list":["post-20647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-sport","tag-1416","tag-1415","tag-319","tag-1414","tag-155","tag-320"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37682,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20647\/revisions\/37682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}