For Iranian Women, Soccer and Freedom Are Bound Together
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4.2 • 727 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:32.1 | From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. |
| 0:51.3 | Coming up on forum, soccer can unite a country. |
| 0:54.7 | But in Iran, women cannot even enter the national stadium. |
| 0:58.1 | For decades, they've been banned from attending games. |
| 1:00.6 | And by extension, they've been banned from standing side by side as equal Iranians, says |
| 1:05.3 | podcast host Shima Oliai. |
| 1:08.1 | Banned from the joy, the exhilaration, the love in watching a game. |
| 1:13.8 | But generations of women have defied Iran's band, and some are featured in Oliai's new 30 for |
| 1:18.7 | 30 podcast, Pink Card, all about the profound connections between soccer, feminism, and freedom. |
| 1:25.6 | Join us. |
| 1:47.8 | This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Since 1981, with few exceptions, women in Iran have been banned from attending men's soccer games, |
| 1:54.1 | from even setting foot in the national stadium. That's despite the country's deep love of the game and a national team that had an impressive World Cup showing this year. Everyone from old to young women, men, everyone get involved. |
| 2:04.7 | That's from a new ESPN 30 for 30 podcast called Pinkard, where women struggle for human rights in |
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