Football

KARACHI: “I feel watching Morocco reach the semi-finals was like seeing ourselves win, I think no other Muslim country has done what they did and that made us ...

“There is a lot of passion for football in the community and we can see a clear divide, and a great one too. Ali is now a member of the departmental side for Army, and he is certainly an inspiration for the footballers in Ibrahim Hyderi. I see these children and even the older people who have been coming to the screenings, they spend two to four hours here despite the cold weather, and it does become a bit of an escape for all from the tough lives where they don’t know when the next meal will be, or how harsh the factory conditions have been, and in all of this football has been a glue to keep them hanging on. “It is easier to get the flags of Brazil, Argentina, France and other countries, but there were no flags of But apart from the World Cup, Khan revealed that for the first time Baloch Mujahid Stadium will have a separate enclosure for women to participate in the sport and that is giving hope to many in Karachi's football community as girls from Korangi and other areas can also use the venue for the women’s sport in the future besides the youth of Ibrahim Hyderi. For now, the youth is the focus of the screenings who work at the factories in the surrounding industrial areas for 12 to 14 hours a day on meagre wages and the fishermen community that must make ends meet in the harshest of the conditions at the sea, particularly in the wintry weather of December.