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AFGHANISTAN FOOTBALL NATIONAL TEAM
Nation game for play
The Afghanistan Football Federation was founded in 1933,
affiliated to Fifa in 1948 and was a founding
member of the Asian Football Confederation
in 1954.The first match was a friendly
against Iran in 1941 which they drew 0-0.
The last match was in the
1984 Asian Cup qualifiers, when they
drew 0-0 with Hong Kong.
The national team has never qualified for the World Cup
The recent match in Kabul against the ISAF
(International Security Assistance Force)
saw 25,000 people in the stadium
with 20,000 wanting to get in.
Under the Taliban spectators were forbidden to
cheer and all players had to be fully clothed and
bearded. A friendly with Pakistan in 2000 saw
the opposition arrested and their heads shaved
for exposing their legs. The beard requirement was waived for foreign sportsmen
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