US lawmakers call on FIFA to recognize exiled Afghanistan women's soccer team
WASHINGTON: A bipartisan group of US lawmakers called on FIFA to recognise the exiled Afghanistan women's soccer team, in a letter sent to the sport's international governing body on Friday .
The Taliban went on to drastically limit women's freedoms and rights, including banning women and girls from the country's education system, in what the UN has said could amount to a crime against humanity.
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