Newspaper Article
| Jun 2026
Far from the World Cup, a girls team tries to revive soccer dreams for war-ravaged Sudan
Their red jerseys stood out against the green pitch. Most were teenage girls. Some had fled war. Others had never played in an organized soccer league or set foot in a major stadium before.
Yet when they took the field at Larbi Zaouli Stadium in Casablanca, Morocco, they marked Sudan’s first appearance in international women’s soccer since a civil war erupted in a country where women’s participation in sports has long been controversial.
Liv Tønnessen
Research Professor/Director of Center on Law and Social Transformation
