Husband bars Iran futsal captain from Asian Championship
An Iranian women’s futsal 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 school. Ardalan went public to plead her right to represent her country at the first women’s tournament of futsal organised by the Asian ...
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