PINK CARD Episode 1: Red Girl

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4.5 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 22 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. 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 woman and avid soccer fan whose love of the game led to her being named an enemy of the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh
0:02.3	and
0:06.9	to
0:10.4	him
0:11.4	baby guitar and pink panties.
0:22.3	С
0:21.2	Hitting Choffra!
0:27.0	Mom, kick the ball!
0:29.4	I grew up playing soccer.
0:32.6	My mom hated when I called it that.
0:36.1	She called it Football!
0:39.0	I love you.
0:41.0	I'm Christmas, my daddy, my soccer ball, and my palm pad.
0:46.0	It's Christmas Day. I'm nine, and I can't get the ball past my mother.
0:53.0	She does not care that I'm a kid.
0:56.0	My mother played on club teams in Reyna, Nevada for the past 40 years.
1:02.0	I remember her coming home after matches when I was in middle school.
1:06.0	I'm a kid.
1:08.0	Telling us in Farsi that she scored a goal.
1:13.0	In my family, our love for soccer was constant and clear,
1:18.0	but living in America and being from Iran...
1:26.0	...that was more complicated.
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