Best of 2021 - #1: The Afghan Women's Soccer Team's Escape From Kabul
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3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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To close out 2021, we're replaying our 10 best episodes of the year. At #1 we have 'The Afghan Women's Soccer Team's Incredible Escape From Kabul.' We hear from two women who helped orchestrate the evacuation of the Afghan Women's Soccer Team -- long a symbol of defiance to the Taliban -- just before the Kabul Airport was shut down and the ultra-conservative religious group regained complete control of the country.
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| 0:07.0 | Hi there, Wondry listeners. Hannah and Sruti here from TrueCram Podcast Redhanded. |
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| 0:16.0 | and Wondry's best podcasts of the year as chosen by their listeners, which is you. |
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| 0:47.0 | Well everyone, we've made it to the final day of 2021. |
| 0:52.0 | And we've also made it to the final day of our countdown of the 10 best episodes of the year. |
| 0:58.0 | So today, we're replaying the episode that our team thought was our best of the year. |
| 1:04.0 | About the Afghanistan Women Soccer team and their incredible escape from the country. |
| 1:10.0 | This one first aired back in late August. Hope you enjoy and have a safe and happy new year. |
| 1:23.0 | Over the last few weeks, the world has watched as hundreds of thousands of people have desperately tried to flee Afghanistan. |
| 1:30.0 | People are literally clinging on to US military aircraft as they try to take off. |
| 1:36.0 | As the final days of evacuation continue, thousands throw on the airport every day, hoping to get evacuated. |
| 1:44.0 | There's been a suicide bombing, a carburel airport in Afghanistan where crowds were gathered in the hope of getting on to one of the last flights to escape Taliban rule. |
| 1:54.0 | Many Afghans have not been able to make it out, but one group that has is the Afghan Women's National Soccer team. |
| 2:01.0 | Today, the inside story of their escape. |
| 2:05.0 | They endured gunfire and, you know, rounds napping over their head. |
| 2:11.0 | And some of them were beat by the Taliban to have their own stolen and they had to wait at sewer water across the canal to get to the gate. |
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