page_title: Tibet women's national football team
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hierarchical_section_title: Tibet women's national football team / Story
caption_attribution_description: English: The first Tibetan women's football team was set up just one year ago, Dharamsala, April 27 (2012).
context_page_description: The Tibet women's football team is a national association football team controlled by the Tibet Women's Soccer, an organization of exiled Tibetans. Its current team manager is Gompo Dorjee.
context_section_description: In 2010, Tibetan schools in India launched for the first time an official football program for Tibetan to Dharamshala.
  The US Cassie Childers, during his summer break trip to Dharamsala in India.
  During the 2010 FIFA World Cup, she noticed that she was the only woman to pay attention to this international event.
  Subsequently, at a photographic exhibition of the National Association of Tibetan sports, she is surprised that there are no women featured in the photographs, it was not just football, but all the sports.
  Cassie Childers participant in driving the Tibetan youth and became the first coach of the Women's Football Team Tibet.
  During the winter holidays, forty girls selected by their schools, have lived together for learning and practicing football and name the potential team captains, while participating in leadership training.
  For the first training games, they are divided into two teams,  The Princesses Himalayan  and  Snowland United .
  In 2011, the is headed by National Association of Tibetan soccer and National Association of Tibetan sports, help the teacher Willits Charter. The program was founded in October 2011 to serve as a tool to empower Tibetan women in the refugee community.
  Thirteen Tibetan schools in India and eighteen people were trained to best frame the 500 adolescents participating in the program.
  The program begins in a training camp for a month, the 18 trainers form girls from each participating school to become leaders of the future new teams in both football training and empowerment.
  During this period the camp invite professional coaches, sports psychologists, empower women teachers, physiotherapists, nurses and specialized sports coaches.
  Eventually the female sports program of Tibet has trained 13 clubs in refugee settlements located in India.
  A few days after the end of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, 5 July, a team of seven Tibetan players met a Chinese team during the Discover Football Festival in Berlin.
  Phuntsok Dolma, Sherab Dolma, Yandan Lhamo, Tenzin Norzom, Dasel Tenzin Sonam Tenzin Yangzom Palyang and then became the first Tibetan players to play a historic meeting in a foreign country.
  The players were selected in a refugee camp in India by their coaches, Gompo Dorjee and Cassie Childers, for the simple reason that in China, they would never have had the right to set foot on a ball.
  They confronted the players of the Shanghai University of Sport.
  Some months before, Cassie Childers, the program manager and founder of the Football Association Women's Tibet, had decided with the team of a collaboration with the national Association of Tibetan sports.
  The team of Tibetan women's football, created in 2011 in Dharamsala, India, was released thanks to international donations.
  The first Tibetan Women's National Team is created, composed of 21 members. The first captain Ngawang Tsering Lhamo and Lhadon is the vice captain of the team.
  The selection of the team of girls of the Tibetan football is chosen each winter in a training camp.
  In 2012 May 26, Tibet faces Himachal Pradesh team before formatnum 8000 spectators, the match will end with a victory of two goals to nil, the first goal in the history of the women's team is Lhamo Kyi registered.
  On September 9, the team played a second match which will result in a loss to Haryana.
  In 2013 the team wins a match, the second ended in defeat, the latest in a draw.
  In 2014 the team participates in Manipur Spring Football Festival first ladies Imphal. 
  The first match starts on February 14 is finally defeated, the day the game is winning 4–2, is allowing Tibet to play the final against Manipur who finished in a draw, the two teams are named co-winner the tournament.
  For the training session at Winter Camp 2014, a professional team is in place to form the best women's team Tibet.
  Cassie Childers, General Manager & Responsible (communication, teamwork, leadership, self-esteem).
  Shane Kidby of New Zealand served as head coach.
  Johanna Kidby, New Zealand also joined as a fitness coach (yoga, circuit training, meditation, nutrition).
  James Ryle of I
caption: The first Women's Football Team Tibet founded April 27, 2012 in Dharamsala
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