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Introducing 'Pink Card' from ESPN's '30 for 30 Podcasts'

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ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Growing up Iranian American, Shima Oliaee found her mother didn’t talk much about where she came from. Watching soccer, though, was a portal to Iran, a place that was in large part a mystery. In "Pink Card," the latest series from ESPN's "30 for 30 Podcasts," Shima delves into the stories she didn’t hear growing up: Iran's mandated modernization and how soccer played a role, the women-led 1979 revolution, and her parents’ mistaken-identity love story. Shima and her mom meet Zeinab Sahafy, a young Iranian women and avid soccer fan whose love of the game led to her being named an enemy of the state. If you like what you hear, click on over to "30 for 30 Podcasts" to hear the rest of this four-part series -- available now on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/3h70iqF), Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3FGVL7L), or wherever you like to listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh

0:22.5

another

0:23.2

Mom, kick the ball.

0:29.5

I grew up playing soccer.

0:32.6

My mom hated when I called it that.

0:36.2

She called it football.

0:37.2

I love it.

0:38.2

It's soccer.

0:39.2

It's football.

0:40.2

I love it.

0:41.2

I'm Christmas.

0:42.2

My daddy bought me my soccer ball and my pump.

0:49.1

It's Christmas day.

0:50.3

I'm nine.

0:51.5

And I can't get the ball past my mother.

0:54.2

She does not care that I'm a kid.

0:57.5

My mother played on club teams in Reyna, Nevada for the past 40 years.

1:03.5

I remember her coming home after matches when I was in middle school.

1:08.5

Telling us in Farsi that she scored a goal.

1:13.4

In my family, our love for soccer was constant and clear.

1:18.7

But living in America and being from Iran, that was more complicated.

1:29.7

We always sing two birthday songs, one in English and one in Farsi.

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