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Prince Ali speaking to former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, in 2008 NADER DAOUD/AP/Press Association Images
Soccer

FIFA to discuss soccer ban on hijabs

The vice-president of FIFA, Prince Ali, is to discuss the ban during a presentation on Saturday. He says the ban is prejudiced against women who wear the head scarf.

FIFA VICE PRESIDENT Prince Ali will urge soccer’s rulemakers today to overturn a ban on Islamic female players wearing hijabs.

The Jordanian prince will make a presentation to the International Football Association Board, five years after the panel ruled that wearing headscarves in matches was unsafe.

Prince Ali says:

The present situation is saying to women worldwide that you’re not allowed to participate for a reason that makes no sense. That’s prejudice. It’s not fair.

He insists that permitting hijabs is “not an issue of religious symbolism — it is simply a case of cultural modesty.”

If the motion is rejected, the prince says “there will be lot of soul searching about what the priorities are in this sport”.

- Rob Harris

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