For the first time in decades, women allowed to attend FIFA soccer matches freely in Iran
Iranian Women's fans cheer during the FIFA World Cup Qualifier match between Iran and Cambodia at Azadi Stadium on October 10, 2019 in Tehran, Iran./ TEHRAN, Iran – Thousands of flag-draped women cheered, blew horns and celebrated inside a stadium Thursday as they watched the first FIFA soccer ...
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Iran vs. Cambodia: Iranian women will be allowed to attend men's soccer match
Iranian women will be allowed to watch the country's men's national team in a World Cup qualifier, after being banned from attending men's games for 40 years/ Iranian women will officially be able to enter and watch a men's soccer match for the first time in decades on Thursday. FIFA, soccer's ...
Iran lifts 40-year ban on women entering football stadiums
Iranian female soccer fan 'blue girl' dies after setting herself on fire. She was being charged with being dressed as a man to watch a soccer game. Women are not allowed to enter the soccer stadium in Iran./ will be allowed to enter a football stadium this week for the first time in nearly 40 ...
Iranian women allowed to attend FIFA soccer match at home for the first time in decades
As thousands of Iranian women young and old made their way inside Tehran’s Azadi Stadium on Thursday to watch the World Cup qualifying match between the Iranian and Cambodian men’s teams, the excitement was palpable. The sea of cheering women grew louder as they took their seats in women’s-only ...
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Iranian women attend soccer game for first time in nearly 40 years.
, wearing jester hats and face paint, blew horns and cheered Thursday at the first match they've been allowed to freely attend in nearly 40 years./ In what many considered a victory in a decadeslong fight by women in Iran to attend sporting events, they wrapped themselves in the country's flag ...
An Iranian Soccer Fan’s Dream Comes True Without Her
For years, Zeinab Sahafi disguised herself as a man to slip into soccer matches in Iran. But when the government finally opened stadiums to women, she was left out./ ISTANBUL — Zeinab Sahafi didn’t want to be an activist. All she ever wanted to be, she said, was a regular fan, another of the ...
Iran football: Women attend first match in decades
These are external links and will open in a new window/ These are external links and will open in a new window/ Iranian women have attended a World Cup qualifier in Tehran after being freely allowed to enter a stadium for a men's match for the first time in decades. Women have effectively been ...
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Thousands Of Women Will At Last Be Allowed To Attend A Soccer Match In Iran
Iranian sports journalist Raha Purbakhsh shows off her ticket to attend a World Cup qualifier in front of Azadi Stadium in Tehran on Tuesday. Iran has essentially banned women from entering the stadium for decades./ Iranian sports journalist Raha Purbakhsh shows off her ticket to attend a World ...
Iranian Women Allowed to Attend Soccer Game for First Time Since 1981
The few ticket holders expressed joy at finally being able to share in the passion for the national soccer team./ A select group of women, chosen by the authorities, were allowed to attend a friendly match in 2018 in Tehran. But women were generally banned from stadiums./ When Iran’s national ...
Iranian women allowed to enter football stadium for first time in 40 years
Iran's World Cup qualifier against Cambodia on Thursday will be a landmark moment for the country, as women will be able to officially enter a football stadium for the first time in decades./ The initial allocation of 3,500 tickets for female fans was quickly sold out -- r -- before an ...
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Iranian women finally allowed to officially watch soccer match after 40 years
Iranian female soccer fans entered the national stadium for the first time in 40 years Thursday to watch their side thrash Cambodia 14-0 in Tehran./ Iran's ban on women attending sports stadiums is not written into law but was put in place shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution./ Iranian ...
Iran Women Attend FIFA Soccer Game For First Time In Decades
Women have been banned from many sporting events in Iran since 1981, during the early years of the country’s Islamic Revolution./ TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — They had to sit well apart from the men, and the stadium was practically empty, but thousands of Iranian women in merry jester hats and face paint ...
'I Feel Like I'm Entering A New World': Iranian Women Excited To Attend Men's Soccer Match For ...
After a ban lasting nearly four decades, Iranian women will finally be allowed to watch a men's soccer match at Tehran's Azadi Stadium on October 10 as Iran takes on Cambodia in a World Cup qualifier. Many women -- particularly those lucky to have secured one of only 3,500 tickets allotted for ...
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FIFA Must Pressure Iran to Let Women Attend Soccer Matches
My country’s exclusion of its 41 million women from sports stadiums is a clear violation of the organization’s charter and of our human rights./ I grew up in the Iranian city of Shiraz after the 1979 revolution. Girls like me were barred from going to stadiums to watch sports because, our ...
Iran thrash Cambodia 14-0 on marquee night for female fans
Iranian women attend Iran's World Cup Asian qualifier against Cambodia at the Azadi stadium in Tehran, Iran October 10, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/ HONG KONG (Reuters) - Iran made it a night to remember for female fans allowed into the Azadi Stadium for a ...
Iranian women attend first soccer match in 40 years
Iranian women entered the country’s national stadium in Tehran on Thursday after being able to purchase tickets for a national team game for the first time in 40 years./ FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - World Cup - Group B - Morocco vs Iran - Saint Petersburg Stadium, Saint Petersburg, Russia - ...
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Iranian Women Allowed at FIFA Soccer Match for First Time in Decades
(TEHRAN, Iran) — Thousands of flag-draped Iranian women cheered, blew horns and celebrated inside a Tehran stadium Thursday as they watched the first FIFA soccer match they’ve been allowed to freely attend in decades. The 2022 World Cup qualifier between the Iranian national team and Cambodia at ...
Iranian Women Finally Get Their Moment at a Soccer Match
Government allows women to buy tickets to the national’s team match after pressure from FIFA; ‘people were crying with excitement’/ Thousands of women bought tickets to an international soccer match in Iran after being allowed to do so for the first time in four decades, cheering on the national ...
Iranian women attend first match in decades
Iranian women have attended a World Cup qualifier in Tehran for a men's match for the first time in decades. Women have effectively been banned from stadiums when men are playing since just after the 1979 Islamic revolution. The change followed the death of a fan who had set herself alight after ...
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Iran women freely attend football match for first time in decades
Watch video Elated female fans wore the national green, white and red flag around their shoulders and over their hair as they streamed into a tiny section of Tehran’s Azadi Stadium for Iran’s 2022 World Cup qualifier against Cambodia./ Waving flags and snapping selfies, thousands of Iranian ...
Iran thrash Cambodia 14-0 on marquee night for female fans
Iran made it a night to remember for female fans allowed into the for a World Cup qualifying match for the first time since the Islamic Revolution as they inflicted a record-breaking 14-0 thrashing on Cambodia on Thursday. Striker Karim Ansarifard scored four goals and Sardar Azmoun hit a ...
As you cheer the Iranian women supporting their football team, remember one of us died before ...
The sight of thousands of Iranian women embracing their first chance to lawfully attend a football match was thrilling. If only it hadn’t come at such a cost/ This week, thousands of Iranian women lawfully attended a football game for the first time since 1981. The gates of the stadium where the ...
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Iranian women allowed to attend soccer game for first time in 40 years
Thousands of Iranian women were allowed to attend a professional soccer game for the first time in 40 years during the country's World Cup qualifier against Cambodia on Thursday. for women to attend the game in Tehran's Azadi stadium, and an additional 1,100 were released after the initial lot ...
Iran women freely attend football match for first time in decades
Waving flags and snapping selfies, thousands of Iranian women on Thursday attended a football match freely for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the country over its controversial stadium restrictions. Elated female fans wore the national green, white and red flag ...
