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Will Sudanese Accept New Women's Soccer League?

Naba Mohiedeen

   KHARTOUM, SUDAN - Twenty-one-year-old Marilyn Zakarya is one of the
   players in the Sudanese women's football league that launched this
   week. Zakarya came from South Sudan to follow her dream in Khartoum.
   But she is worried whether Sudan's conservative society will accept
   women's football after years of restrictions.

   Zakarya has been passionate about playing soccer since she was a child.
   She left her family in South Sudan to pursue the sport in Sudan, where
   a new women's league began play this week.

   Zakarya says she was playing in Wau, Bahr Ghazal state, then came to
   Khartoum and joined Tahadi team with coach Sara Edward. Before the
   league started, she had some issues with school, so she stopped and
   then moved from Tahadi to Kornk team.

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