When Iran’s national soccer team took the field on Thursday evening at Tehran’s Azadi stadium for an attempt to be a World Cup qualifier, the attention of the game was not in the action on the field but on who was seated in the stands.
For the first time in almost four decades, women were allowed to buy tickets and attend a match in Iran.
This was a enlightening story, the author got all the information and background information about the women’s pregame plans. The women who attended arrived several hours before the game and sat in the stand 2 hours before kick off. As the article went on, it was organized on going over the history of why the women were banned, why it changed and what it means for the country of Iran. Great article.
The women’s attendance may owe a debt to other women who were recently arrested for attending a game dressed as men. Maybe their protest achieved the desired results.