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How An American In Dharamshala Created Tibet’s First Women’s Football Team To Fight Sexism

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How An American In Dharamshala Created Tibet’s First Women’s Football Team To Fight Sexism

by The Daily Eye Team October 18 2016, 4:29 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secs

In their modest homes in Dharamsala, a hill station in Himachal Pradesh, young Tibetan girls prepare their bags for a football camp while their mothers make tea. One of them is 20-year-old Lhamo Kyi whose dream is to one day play football in the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Tibetans may not have a country, but they have a national women’s soccer team, thanks to 34-year-old American high school teacher, Cassie Childers.

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