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Meet First Sudanese Woman to Coach a Men's Football Team

In Sudan, where a women's national football team remains a distant dream, Salma al-Majidi knew the only way to take part in her beloved sport was to coach - and that the players had to be men. She has been acknowledged by Fifa as "the first Arab and Sudanese woman to coach a men's football team in the Arab world".

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Salma al-Majidi at work.

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