The Escape

We Came to Win

Gimlet

Sports, Soccer, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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As the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, members of the country's women's soccer team - once symbols of a new Afghanistan - knew they needed to escape. This is the story of how the team's former captain, Khalida Popal, hatched a daring plan for their evacuation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.0	Hello and welcome to We Came to Wind,
1:06.0	a collection of stories about the World Cup and Matt Nelson
1:10.0	and I'm joined today by Steve Siree. Steve, how you doing?
1:13.0	I'm good, Matt.
1:14.0	We're going to be discussing something a little bit different today
1:16.0	on this episode.
1:17.0	A very important story first reported by the journal
1:20.0	about how the Afghan women soccer team escaped from the Taliban.
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