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Article Author: In Kabul, first evening soccer match in nearly four decades
Media Source: The Washington Post (USA)
Date: 22 October 2017
On 19 October, a soccer game between the De Maiwand Atalan soccer club from the Kandahar province and the defending champion De Spin Ghar Bazan team from Nangahar provincetook place for this year’s title in the Afghan Premiere League. The lights beamed on inside the Afghan Football Federation soccer stadium and 5,000 people, drawn…
On 19 October, a soccer game between the De Maiwand Atalan soccer club from the Kandahar province and the defending champion De Spin Ghar Bazan team from Nangahar provincetook place for this year’s title in the Afghan Premiere League. The lights beamed on inside the Afghan Football Federation soccer stadium and 5,000 people, drawn to a spectacle unheard of for nearly four decades, came out to see. The event is part of a campaign to reintroduce a sense of normalcy into Afghan culture led by the Dubai-based Moby Media Group, which, with the Roshan telecommunications company, created the Afghan Premiere League in 2012.