Women's soccer in Tajikistan

Tajikistan isn't a place known for women's sports, but they are hosting a qualification tournament for the 2018 Women's Asian Cup, a precursor to the World Cup. Since our daughter played soccer in high school we've enjoyed the game, and we're always curious about various aspects of life here, so after work today we went to see Tajikistan play against Bahrain.

The Tajik team is in green. Sadly no goal in the minutes around this photo.

 Unfortunately the weather was giving us one final blast of winter and it was very cold and drizzly. But there were still a few fans in the stands. This one shows the single cluster of female fans. There were other clusters of guys elsewhere.

Also unfortunately, the Bahrain team outplayed the Tajik women.

The final score was 4:0.

In spite of all that, it was good to see this evidence of opportunity for female athletes in Tajikistan.