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  • My name is closer.

  • Haider, captain of the Egyptian woman soccer team and the aviation club and the first certified coach by the English Premier League phaser Haider, grew up playing soccer in the streets.

  • She went on to Captain Egypt's national women's team for a decade.

  • Now, she's become the country's first woman to train a professional men's club a T beginning.

  • It was honestly hard because boys aren't used to having a girl coach them.

  • There's usually some mockery at the beginning, with some not interested in the idea.

  • They think that because a woman is training them that they don't have to take it seriously.

  • They make fun of it.

  • But then they realized that they learn something that they'll develop their skills aside.

  • Haider played in Egypt's first female soccer league in 1997.

  • Now her focus is on coaching the women's national team, but also fourth division side ideal.

  • Goldie Soccer remains in overwhelmingly male sport in Egypt, But for her players such as Abdel Rahman, is, um, Haider stands apart for her skill, not agenda.

  • It's a special experience, new and one of a kind.

  • Captain Pfizer has a great character.

  • We don't see a difference between male or female coaches.

  • She's very knowledgeable and we benefit from E don't see a difference in either male or female.

  • I'm not only saying this because I am a woman.

  • It is like being white or of color Christian or Muslim E.

  • It doesn't matter what the players religion is, what group they belong to or where they come from.

My name is closer.

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