Qatar`s assistant international minister Lolwah Alkhater acknowledged spherical 100 Afghan soccer gamers and their families have been amongst the passengers to reach on a fresh flight from Kabul.
The Taliban seized administration of the Afghan capital on August 15 and equipped a new executive closing month after US-led international forces withdrew and the Western-backed executive collapsed. British media reported that as a minimal 20 participants of the Afghanistan ladies americans’s crew have been amongst those on the flight and that soccer’s world governing body FIFA had labored with the Qatari executive to coordinate the bother.
Reuters has requested a commentary from FIFA. “The eighth passenger’s flight from Kabul genuine arrived in Qatar,” Alkhater wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “Right here is the largest flight to this level with 357 passengers on board and for the notable time, we now have voters from Fresh Zealand. Moreover, spherical 100 footballers & their families including feminine gamers are on board.”
FIFA acknowledged in August it became negotiating the “extraordinarily stressful” evacuation of soccer gamers and other athletes from Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover. Cycling`s world governing body UCI acknowledged on Monday it helped in the evacuation of 165 refugees from Afghanistan which included feminine cyclists, journalists and human rights campaigners.
‘She’s the principle motive’
This ladies americans’s soccer crew have been impressed by their Afghan crew participants to raise consciousness and funds to aid #Afghanistan.
Thank you to this excellent crew! pic.twitter.com/RrgM9bwJiv
— UK for UNHCR (@UNRefugeesUK) October 11, 2021
Australia evacuated better than 50 feminine Afghan athletes and their dependents in August, while a few gamers from Afghanistan`s nationwide feminine formative years soccer squad have been granted asylum in Portugal closing month.
