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Sophie Downey

‘They need role models’ – how football is changing young girls’ lives in Nepal

Young girls learn to play football in Nepal
Young girls learn to play football in Nepal, where many face barriers to participation as they are expected to marry at a young age. Photograph: Atoot

Welcome to Moving the Goalposts, the Guardian’s free women’s football newsletter. Here’s an extract from this week’s edition. To receive the full version once a week, just pop your email in below:

On 19 September, more than 15,700 people flocked into Kathmandu’s Dasharath Rangasala to watch Nepal in the final of the 2022 SAFF Women’s Championship. The hosts of the South Asian Football Federation tournament ultimately lost to Bangladesh but, more importantly, it signified a changing of the tide both in the progress of the national team but also the wider relationship between women and football.

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