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Nadia Nadim: ‘I’m actually the picture of everything the Taliban don’t want their women to be’

Nadia Nadim remembers the moment she fell in love with football.

She was in Denmark when she saw some girls kicking a ball around on a field, uninhibited.

“That’s the first time I got to see that girls actually did play football at the schools. And right away, I fell in love with the game,” the 33-year-old soccer star tells CNN’s Becky Anderson.
“Since then, I’ve never really left the ball.”
Across her prolific 16-year career, Nadim has earned success after success, having represented Denmark’s women’s football team since 2009. Read More
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