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Afghan Women's Youth Soccer Team Lands in the U.K.
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November 18, 2021
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1:45Now PlayingMembers of Afghanistan's women's youth development soccer team arrived in Britain on Thursday after being flown from Pakistan with the help of a U.S. rabbi, a U.K. soccer club, and Kim Kardashian West.
A plane carrying more than 30 teenage players and their families, about 130 people in all, landed at Stansted Airport near London.
The Afghans will spend 10 days in coronavirus quarantine before starting new lives in Britain.
English Premier League club Leeds United has offered to support the players.
Britain and other countries evacuated thousands of Afghans in a rushed airlift as Kabul fell to Taliban militants in August. Many more people have since left overland for neighboring countries in hope of traveling onwards to the West.
Women playing sport was seen as a political act of defiance against the Taliban, and hundreds of female athletes have left Afghanistan since the group returned to power and began curbing women's education and freedoms.
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