Indonesian women’s football team goalkeeper Evi Iswandari (right) and Erma Karafir during a friendly match in Bogor.
With an Islamic headscarf tucked into her football top, 16-year-old Fatwa Nurjannah kicked the ball enthusiastically around the pitch at a training session in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.
“People tell me since I’m a girl and I wear the headscarf, I’m better off at a religious school. No way,” Fatwa said, as she took part in the all-female practice at a football academy.
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