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Scoring goals: Women’s football in Egypt on the rise

Yasmine Yasser in her Egyptian club football attire [Courtesy of Fatma Badawy]

Every time Amira Mohamed stepped onto the pitch, it was never just a game. For her, and hundreds of Egyptian female footballers, the field was a battlefield – not one against opponents, but against generational scepticism.

“It wasn’t always normal for girls to play football,” she said. “It felt like no one took us seriously. But we kept going anyway. We played in silence, with no audience, just for the love of the game.”

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