Presenting: ESPN's "Pink Card"

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National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

4.5 • 10.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Today we bring you a high-stakes story from ESPN’s 30 for 30 Podcasts—a tale of women’s rights, history, and soccer. As Iranian women took to the streets in fall 2022 to fight gender inequality, they also targeted sports. Iranian women have been banned from attending games in stadiums for more than four decades. In ESPN’s series Pink Card, creator, host, and executive producer Shima Oliaee follows Iranian women who dare to defy the ban, from protesting at the gates to sneaking into soccer games under disguise. They risk their lives to take back their stadium—and their joy in the game. Listen to all four episodes of Pink Card from 30 for 30 Podcasts. And find more stories from the edges of our big, weird, beautiful world with Overheard at National Geographic. For their widespread protests united by chants of "Woman, life, freedom," the women of Iran are Time magazine's heroes of the year. If you like what you hear and want to support more content like this, please consider a National Geographic subscription. Go to natgeo.com/exploremore to subscribe today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Dovar Ardalan at National Geographic with a gripping story today from our friends
0:11.6	at ESPN.
0:13.1	For more than four decades, women in Iran have been banned from attending soccer games
0:18.2	in stadiums.
0:19.8	In ESPN's latest podcast series Pink Card, Peabody Award-winning producer and host Shima
0:25.3	Oliyae tells the tale of women who dare to defy this man from protesting at the gates
0:31.4	to sneaking in under disguise.
0:33.9	They risk their lives to take back their stadium and their joy in the game.
0:39.2	It's a high-stakes drama of fascinating history on Iran and women's rights, and I'm
0:43.9	excited to share the first episode with you today on Overheard.
0:48.1	You can find all four episodes of Pink Card right now in ESPN's 30 for 30 feet, there's
0:53.5	a link in your podcast app.
0:55.6	Here's the first episode of Pink Card with Shima Oliyae.
1:25.6	I grew up playing soccer.
1:32.0	My mom hated when I called it that.
1:35.5	She called it football.
1:38.8	I love you.
1:42.8	I'm Christmas, my daddy, my soccer ball, and my pump.
1:48.4	It's Christmas Day.
1:49.4	I'm nine, and I can't get the ball past my mother.
1:53.5	She does not care that I'm a kid.
1:56.8	My mother played on club teams in Reyna, Nevada for the past 40 years.
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