{"id":37367,"date":"2021-09-26T22:26:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T13:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/26\/uk-urged-to-resettle-fleeing-afghan-womens-football-team"},"modified":"2021-09-26T22:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T13:26:16","slug":"uk-urged-to-resettle-fleeing-afghan-womens-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37367","title":{"rendered":"UK urged to resettle fleeing Afghan women\u2019s football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United have offered support but players face return to Taliban regime unless accepted soon<\/p>\n<p>The UK government is being asked to urgently resettle female players from Afghanistan\u2019s junior football team who fled the Taliban and have been offered a new life with Leeds United.<\/p>\n<p>The 35 young women \u2013 many of whom are in their teens \u2013 their families and football coaches are in Lahore, Pakistan, on 30-day visas. But the 136-strong group face returning to Afghanistan unless they are accepted by a third country soon \u2013 they have to leave Pakistan by 12 October.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/26\/uk-urged-to-resettle-fleeing-afghan-womens-football-team\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United have offered support but players face return to Taliban regime unless accepted soonThe UK government is being asked to urgently resettle female players from Afghanistan\u2019s junior football team who fled the Taliban and have been offered a ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,627,4,61,203,44,52,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-football","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37373,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367\/revisions\/37373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}