“I bear in mind sooner or later somebody was very imply, he stated: “Don’t you’ve a father? Don’t you’ve a brother? Is there nobody within the household to regulate you?’” says Salma Al-Majidi.
The 32-year-old has confronted numerous provocations as the primary lady to educate a males’s soccer group in Sudan and within the Arab world.
In a rustic the place girls weren’t allowed to play for 30 years – and the place a nationwide soccer group was solely established a yr in the past – hers isn’t any small step.
“It’s not only a sport. It teaches you ethics and self-discipline,” says Al-Majidi of her 15-year love affair with the game. “I at all times say soccer is life and coaches are the premise for it.”
Our movie follows Al-Majidi’s group by way of a championship. Will they lastly get a step nearer to breaking into the nation’s first league?