Husband bars Iran footballer from Asian championship
Iranian football captain Niloofar Ardalan in action during a 2014 practice session in Tehran (AFP Photo/Amir Kholoosi)/ Tehran (AFP) - An Iranian women's football team will be minus its captain at the Asian championship in Malaysia next week after her husband invoked his right under Islamic law to bar her from travelling./ Mehdi Tutunchi, himself a sportscaster, said his wife Niloofar Ardalan could not lead out the national team at the September 21-26 championship in Nilai, because it coincided with their seven-year-old son's first day at ...
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