Soccer Nuns

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

With the Fifa Women’s World Cup kicking off in Canada on 6 June, we join the Tibetan women’s soccer team, the Snow Lionesses, as they begin the match of their lives, including trying to achieve international recognition in the face of Chinese opposition, entrenched sexism in their own community and flagrant objection from Fifa, world football’s governing body.

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0:19.0	Welcome to Dharma Sharla in the foothills of the Indian Himalaya
0:23.0	where in 1959 the Dalai Lama established his government in exile
0:27.0	and this morning a group of young Tibetan women enjoy a game of soccer.
0:32.0	My name is Tamuki, I'm 19 years old.
0:35.0	I'm a Tibetan and my dream is one day to play football for Tibet
0:40.0	in the FIFA Women's World Cup.
0:43.0	Tonight we are taking a long distance bus
0:46.0	to Daredun for a four week soccer tourney camp.
0:51.0	In their modest, single-block home,
0:53.0	Lamuki packs her bags for soccer camp while mom prepares tea.
0:58.0	Among her treasured possessions, a photo of her brother,
1:01.0	the activist, Seton Dorje, who disappeared over two years ago
1:05.0	after a peace march to the Tibet-Nabal border.
1:08.0	He was marching for the freedom of Tibet.
1:11.0	The Nepal Army didn't allow us to go inside a Nepal.
1:15.0	They took out the gun to my brother.
1:20.0	My brother even said that it's okay if you kill him but not me and my mom.
1:26.0	Now I play football for him.
1:29.0	Lamuki returns to her packing.
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