Footballers from women’s national team leave Afghanistan on evacuation flight

People evacuated from Afghanistan step off a bus as they arrive at a temporary housing center in Virginia. Players from the Afghanistan women’s national football team recently left Kabul. Picture: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

Players from the Afghanistan women’s national football team were among a group of more than 75 people evacuated on a flight from Kabul.

Global football players’ union Fifpro thanked the Australian government for making the evacuation of players, team officials and family members possible, with work continuing to help more leave Afghanistan.