Title: However tall the mountain
Subtitle: a dream, eight girls, and a journey home
First published: 2009
Description: In 1979, when Awista Ayub was only two years old, her family fled Afghanistan for the United States, where Awista flourished, thanks to organized athletics - and where she vowed to make a difference in her home country some day. Soon after the fall of the Taliban, Awista saw her chance: She founded the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange, an organization dedicated to nurturing Afghan girls through soccer. What began with eight young women has exploded into something of a phenomenon. Fifteen teams now compete wtih the Afghanistan Football Federation, with hundreds of girls participating. By bringing soccer to young Afghan women, Awista re-introduced the very traits the decades of war had cruelly stripped away from them - confidence and self-worth. In However Tall the Mountain, she tells her story and the stories of the eight original girls. Timely, heartfelt, and moving , it shows how women can find strength in each other, in teamwork, and in themselves - risking their lives to obtain the freedom that we take for granted.
Subjects: Women soccer players, Social aspects of Soccer, Soccer for children, Afghan American women, Sports & Recreations, Training of, Nonfiction, Social conditions, Soccer, Biography, Women, Sports, asia, Sports for women, Mountaineering
Places: Afghanistan, United States
People: Awista Ayub
LC classification: GV944.2 .A97 2009