Morocco: Nouhaila Benzina, the first player in hijab in the history of the Women’s World Cup – Football – Sport News Africa

Morocco is making ready to play a historic match towards Germany this Monday, July 24, 2023 on the event of the primary day of Group H of the Girls’s World Cup. Nouhaila Benzina will turn into the primary participant to put on a hijab in historical past in a Girls’s World Cup match after FIFA clearance.

The Moroccan choice enters the competitors this Monday, July 24 by dealing with Germany (8:30 GMT) on behalf of the 1^time Group H day. If this opposition is predicted by the African continent, the occasion is elsewhere. In impact, Nouhaila Benzina would be the first lady to put on the hijab in a World Cup match. It will ceaselessly mark the historical past of girls’s soccer. Moroccan worldwide since 2017, the defender will permit ladies’s soccer to take an vital step for Muslim ladies on this self-discipline.

FIFA leads the best way

If the sporting of the veil was debated throughout the London Olympics in 2012 with the number of Iran, ladies’s soccer has taken a step ahead after FIFA’s determination to permit hijabeuses to understand their dream with none constraint. FIFA has turn into extra tolerant on this delicate situation. Thought of discriminatory and opposite to the rules of non secular freedom, this lifting of the hijab ban is a big step ahead in selling inclusion and variety in sport. The step taken by FIFA generally is a begin for this to be adopted in nations nonetheless reluctant to see a participant sporting the veil. That is the instance of France which continues to be towards this apply in accordance with its laws on the neutrality of sport.

At 25, Moroccan Nouhaila Benzina will turn into the primary footballer to put on the hijab throughout a World Cup. “A historic second”, for FIFA. pic.twitter.com/9hzNYdoOVd

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A step ahead in ladies’s soccer

This Monday, July 24, Nouhaila Benzina wearing her hijab enjoying a World Cup match. This picture might go around the globe and particularly be important in nations the place the hijab is a crucial signal of religion. A gesture that can permit younger ladies who dream of embracing a profession as knowledgeable participant to not have an impediment between their faith, their tradition and their ardour. It now stays for Nouhaila Benzina and her Moroccan teammates to make a profitable World Cup debut towards competitors favourites, Germany. Housed in group H, THE Atlas lionesses will face within the 2^e South Korea Day (August 30) and for the three^e day, Colombia (August 3)