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welcome to generation football. coming up, we find out what's happened to afghanistan. youth women's national football team center granted asylum in portugal in 2021. how is the full effect of their lives and what are their hopes for the future? mickland kit. yeah, i need to walk on, nick thought a football abortion bus is going to life off the football for in the players. i sat down with patrice ever, frances form of football captive right now. there are big children affected by violent manchester united. he won 5 english premier league and the champion thing in his memoir, i love this game. he opened up for the 1st time about his experience of the piece as a child for people. it was like really weird for patrice to be talking about child abuse. but because of my, i'm a human being, but he also said that football was the lifeline that saved him.

ah the trees thank you for coming to speak to me today. you're welcome. you are one of the most successful football players in recent history. but since retired before we done so many things, she thought pundits re lots of social media activism. what is the thing you most enjoy doing with your time at the moment? i is finally don't set up an alarm. uh huh. now is this like meeting people is by and people helping people who isa? i didn't have the time to do it. you know? because i always say when you are a football player, you leaving the bubble and you are like it like trap inside that box. and it doesn't allow you to do many things you would like to do. so now i of the owners say, a seal free as, as a person,

but also mentally. and i can think about different things and we should talk about your back. you mentioned the neighborhood lazy lease way or from and a lot of really, really successful players came from there like tyrann, lee marquez, or what do you think it is about the french suburbs that produces such successful players? is so many different nationality, you know, ah, is, is a mix. i know, do you know lizard is we are the only lead to be the only term city we win every trophy, like between me, ali and marcial and like different league. so is so many buttress ever so many children, only so many marshal in my little town. oh, to say it is because it's so many curvature lie. you got to have like people from senegal, from algeria formally, and all this mix. and we like playing in the street, i think playing football. save you bomb steely to stay away from being naughty or whatever. so good, but is a way to communicate your the people in when you're leaving the street. football is

the most important thing. and many people they can about, you know, overcoming hardships as a child at poverty, drugs, islands. but they're very faithful own as at your level with that as they can about child abuse. as you had done, the book opens with that. why was it important for you to start to pick that way? ah, i never talk about it before by way came is because i opened myself to the woman of my life, mago and we were watching something on tv about her pedophile and we look and she said, oh my god, is someone do that too? okay, there we go. crazy. and she saw my rec, my face was really lie, you know, angry and she said yeah, okay. and i say yes, i'm fine. she said no, you not okay. but she was the matter. so when i tell her she cry, of course, and i cry too. from that day i start to understand, you know, i need to get rid of that took seeing masculinity because i grew up as crying is a sign of weakness. so she unlocked something and i was like, okay,

i can't lie, did my autobiography and don't tell everything. and after, of course, for people, it was like really weird for patrice to be the captain of the french national. too much to say nights and talking about is a child abuse. but because i my, i am a human being and i think we need to help each other. and me releasing this book had been so many of the person i feel really blessed and grateful. he that point still at that explains having spoken about it or is it been positive april because of the reaction that you've had when this happened like that. you don't talk about that because you just like a raise them from your memory. and sometimes you can be shame about yourself. so is not like i was like, worry about what did the public will think about it. my, my biggest meeting was when i was in paris and i see my mom and to tell a face to face my abuse up and when i was 30 years old and now going to see her

when you 39. and you know, i noticed that she was divested she was i but, but she, sir, you say you're going to release your book. you gonna mention it. and i say, yes, maam, she say are you sure you know to scale to? and as in mama, i'm not doing my book for myself, i do it to, to help or the children, and she was like, oh, go for it. and how do you think that experience kind of holding on to that is a long, effective iep, personally or professionally? did it make a difference see, think, but of course you make mere a roberts, a machine. you don't trust people you don't trust or delete it because he was my air, my head teacher and i actually, i realize every time you know, i was like, oh, why sometime am i grace if, why i'm not in the saw your eyes because i from the street, you know, from st you asked to pretend to be a good day, but you not to, he's just a, a way of surviving. and since i open myself to to margot and i start to realize, actually are it damage me so much?

i was some one a trying didn't wasn't part of my life. you know? i couldn't believe people even just watching a movie could cry. so i keep all those emotion inside. and you just like, even some, some people who are like, well, patrice, you know, oh, you old with the strong like that you never show any, any weakness, you know, you never feel like you, there, noble or whatever, but now i'm a different man. you know, i'm, i'm more mature and i, i can control my emotion and i'm happy to cry. and with only that experience, now you're speaking out about it. how does that link towards the kind of advocacy and outreach what you're doing? so what i'm trying to achieve is i won't change everything myself, but i think i want to make sure like those, those kid, you know, i have the, the strains to say like, okay, then i factory saver, i expose himself in front of 1000000 people. i think i should talk to someone so thus they're just people to try to, to open

a. do you think that there is something about football that specifically makes it difficult to speak about these things competitor or this boy example or the space. it's her foot bullies her la la, like they say you, you can show in the vulnerability and i pay i play with ern gay players and they were coming and talking to me because they know or hoping i was about it. but they will never speak in front of a one because people wheeler reject them. and i have a perfect example when i was playing for wisdom and earn some one from the english federation. come and talk about the subject. you know, we need to accept every one, and you can see in the room some people were like going crazy and mad. if someone is gay of to leave. and after ice, i stood up and i say both silenced wave. you one. can you believe in 2000 or 20 at the time? was still like say we're going to reject you. noise is not fair. you've been

involved in some of the nice kind of contentious debates around vase a one time you a call with a gangster in french government because he had taken a stand he was to pull in one of your fellow players and you went on strike when you look back at that, how do you feel and do you think that things have changed? now do you think things are better or way though knows nothing change because like i say, football is a platform where you can send a message. but the problem is that society like his dedication, no, not baby born as a racist person. oh sarah different. so i'm not surprised. i remember when it was 3 english player and in mr. penalty and they get a lot of abuse. and people start pointing old english fine, they are races. i was like all done. you know, is the same every way in football like we froze when we strike for, for, for nikolai nellikka said aliya, they forget your french muzzle sits at the lou. just the single is so i was like, this is let's, let's stop being hypocrite in the football world. that's the way happen. but to

blame the food boys then it is not just that is the society is bigger than that, but i think we should do lot more than what we doing. and i say to people, we have to stop pretending and you know, you know, not talking silence is a crime. and we can't change things. but like i say, and i like to give that example about the, the super lee. and you could see like, like i have the one was you need and the fine they, they protest whatever. i see some of my ex he made and pun, didn't. he was on t v. like every media, 2 people were just talking about it. and i look at it and i was like, what i wish, you know, we got the same energy to fighting, you know, against services. the truth is, when you know, you don't touch the pocket of people, they won't change things. a number of high profile that man, including upon james daniel, yet had spoken about that addictive feeling of being in the zone at the top of your gain and how winning can become this euphoric thing that you're always chasing. is

that how you fell in 2014 as intensely paying with max united in a bit to say during that time you felt quite depressed. you are detailed you, you are your robot and special, you know, when you play under someone like so. alex ferguson, ferguson. teach you, winning is not important. winning is normal. and every year, if i don't win the league, all the chuckles, whatever you feel like a failure, i remember some time we were likes going gold or whatever. i was even like, don't need to celebrate because is no money's your job, but actually is not. if you ask me, you know, i, i don't leave any regret, but you can't unsure the moment because it's so much pressure. so much focus. and when you play for france of brazil, ingler what people expect you to win the tournament. so you know, when you don't have a good tournament, after you have to, you have 11 sunny day. every day people will talk about it. you have to go back to

your club. you don't have time to to, we charge. that's why we should leave the walk up every 4 year. if we care about the mental f of the player because they are human been and we need to stop thinking about business because this is business, this is money. but what about the ment i have and i know we are toys. you get injury out. we buy a new player and you've been so successful with local, it's giving you the freedom to travel and be in different places. and i wonder if you would have been able to have that kind of growth and experience if you hadn't played football. and what would have happened if he didn't had the canadian type, whether or not you would have made that footboards him alive. the bull allowed me to speak 6, differently english. i wasn't that great at school, but you know, traveling we've the, we've, the team is illusory. that's why i say to every child in the world, when you get the opportunity to travel to meet different people cure to do it. he open your mind a worley, so be. but if you stay just where you leave and you don't travel,

you won't understand to what you want, understand different people, different religion. but of course, where i grew up, most of my friend, you know, some of them read some, one of them. i in jail. it could be, it could be like her by joining for patricia. that's why i always, i feel, bless and grateful. you do have every com energy about you. you know, i can feel like what you're saying to me and that you've been through this process and really kind of put things in their place. is out of that down to the book or what we will even to say. i don't, i really don't know is just like i'm so passionate about life and i, i don't like to find his goose when you get sexually abuse at the age of 13, you grew up with this trauma. when know, you know, you grew up in the street is all about like surviving and her. when you, you born as a black person is a disadvantage in this world. i don't have the answer. i can tell you is because i, i talk with mago because of my book. i don't have the answer. it's just nice to see

anyway, you know, can up and you cannot burn and is beautiful. because even many people were there were like, wow, countries you so nice, you can be a clown, you can be funny, whatever. but when you angry, something different in your eyes is fire something dark. we all over docs. i and i think me was become a lot from my trauma and i realized that when have you felt my satisfied now i feel content and when you play you never content because you keep chasing, winning, winning, winning, winning an audio, a motion as on the side now i am living my best life to love that the one that i just wanna say thank you. same out in the coming is thinking to me. thank you. but it was no ordinary football tour.

as the taliban gained back control of afghanistan in 2021, it took numerous failed attempts, a safe house to flight. and the diplomatic efforts of full countries for these players from the countries used women's national football team to make it to this portuguese pitch 20 full year old african canadian falcons, a moustache captain of the afghan women's national team coordinated the evacuation of a 200 football and family members. last time i was in portugal, so couple months ago i joined her on a visit to see how the girls are settling into their new life in portugal, off to their perilous journey. when the tale then took over afghanistan and the government fell, the football federation asked me to help evacuate the youth national players because their lives were at risk. and so immediately i started looking for possibilities to get them out. and fortunately,

i didn't get the response that i was looking for in canada. and so cap was small yards of a former iranian national team had coach. she's in a ronnie mer again. she connected me with the u. s. government officials through her sister and immediately we start got started on an evacuation, all the countries in the world that you could be evacuating refugees to. why was it portugal? it just made sense for everyone to come to one nation and portugal was willing to support them and their family members as well. whereas other nation just wanted to support the girls and that just wasn't going to be a viable option. can you tell me a little bit about the goals and what they're like? so the girls are predominantly at 14 to 18 years old, and there are some of the most passionate and dedicated girls to the game. some of their parents supported them, but a lot of them didn't and didn't know that there were can be and learn all with in

all of them being an athlete. so today we're going to visit us. unfortunately, she did not come with her parents. and so she's looking at her siblings, she's playing football, she's learning online. she's doing an incredible job. i . what do you want? do you go? well, usually you do come during the day. i've been to ryan, so she's a dar, wasn't able to make it out from the 1st flight. i 3 months later she made it onto another flight that's kinda negotiated me my german

stories like football guy, did he get into it and learned mckesson fair. i know that when she was great and she was younger a so she actually goes like has a passion for like surface and juggling and stuff. and then the kids would play like football and girls and boys together there. and so she would join in and that's kind of where she like began play was the fact that can be one of her friends on the national team. and they use national you 15 team and asked her to come like try out. so she tried got accepted into the like, made the teams and how passionate need do you feel that you want to continue that she wants to continue your stuff because your parents and then over there. why couldn't they come with the hope i was? you could ask the charm. i thought of hire my microphone pat and will be the mother now made them why that amount of to be the no longer stegham. we did not meet him.

j. match for the enemy is the harm yet yet them all to them. they do make it their shudder. mother care. what does she want managed well and just as you don't mind and let's say that they get any care panama. and this is janice, how they do it. oh, that's what i finally was sent home. i got this, should i look at in her job? if you don't have it done what the confusion i should give you mac. and then when i give you the start cause konami tested, i mean jeremy should of course get not asking me with it. i'm just going to be ga sharma. bang that you get on with that sugar. good afternoon, as any of us get hired or someone come asking us good afternoon. do you filled facing? is it oh good. i don't my fast name if you don't mind me. mar, pushed and i'm going to show my pass now.

so you're looking up, your siblings, that's a big responsibility. how do you find it fast? but philip, who has the family with once when i made him back to the home on the bus on faded, they made some i think it was the fact that, you know, just mission was not from fish for them. it on amazon will that i said, is that enough? not, i'm a good that any plan for me. daughter shall get the high and i me and the asked me gradually, now i can change quite a dish can ah

sure. so we can work for you because the girl to spread out across the country, events like this awards ceremony or an opportunity for them to catch up. thank you so much for taking care of the youth national players and continued to empower these young girls. thank you, my guy. ah, it was also a chance to me to me of the players on the team. what's the transition been like for you over the period of months that you've been here? actually? good, good lay. we'll have a new place to live in. you have for you now that you know that it has also their heart. she's like, oh, you know the language, we're just trying to add up to the new environment. you know that jensen is a different country. probably. are you still in touch with a lot of people from back in again is yeah,

of course. yeah. and what's that relationship like now? now the you're here? i mean it's didn't you think it's what guilt. i personally feel so you feel guilty? yes. some has a thing that, oh, i'm guilty because why i couldn't, i cannot hill my people and oil her and powered to day and you know, the, this, they do a, this can mean calm. is that too? all think about the future are so try a long right now. try hard and have me go strong girl. that can help their pupil. like that they did. people can be proud of her. i what an hour and a half from lisbon. 17 year old naz jeanine's saline is training with her local club.

i was told that you came on the 2nd round of flights. what was that experience like fear in the off football lemetre on, on the unami. thomas hannibal, i'm sure erm mo, done wages age in composition number. wow. which baton? i came in a dr. bun or jak moya, come thursday at more by the m hon from them. the berman message got kennimore cush make an m k. i mean group we do make that up on, on monday or not because im i am and i heard that you are a star player and that you are going to place an international games that must be really exciting. what is your kind of vision of the future when it comes to football? mccoy m. k. a. i. ne, volcanic story, football bush. hm. but i am not that are in them. your home care in the auction,

the boys from gay, a name, a dollar dockery up on my, the my von boyer k. n. e. cassie booth gave her cost when i see a joy coming hust resi and who are you? romeros. o. as in missouri, football, i am old grima. i am in the see warren all those while little of any and i'm home care miss lou ona bush or mclean, to hold them bushes valley in any chuck um loom or grim oh no. sun valley now mclean can mr. mcclain b as in carlos care, hailey, beth doesn't know much from the me. all that has strong ambition for the future of these players and for the afghan women

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