An Afghan Perspective - 60 Minutes on CBS - Lionel Messi and the ascent of Barca soccer, January 6, 2013

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Football, most favorite sport in the world. Everybody around the world without considering the nationality, politics and geographical distances has the desire to watch and follow the matches either they are at home on or in the stadium. This week 60 Minutes episode is about: Lionel Messi and the ascent of Barca soccer. If you watch Football, you probably hear the name Lionel Messi a lot. He is an Argentine footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team.

Most of the Barca players are graduated from the Football academy, "La Masia" the youth academy is the place where the best soccer team in the world, FC Barcelona come from. La Masia is not just a Football school, they also have to focus on school subjects and practicing Football as well.

Sport in Afghanistan is a considerable issue. In Afghanistan there is not any Football school for kids who are interested to select Football as their own professional career. Most of the time those who are in any sport they have a second job as well, because by what they get paid, they can not cover all the expenses.

However government and private businesses have done remarkable achievements in sport. Roshan Afghan Premier League is one of the greatest result for Afghanistan sport specially in Football. It is Afghanistan's first professional football league, which was announced on 9th of July 2012 by the Afghan Football Federation

The League consists of 8 teams drawn from all over the country, and will feature Afghanistan's national team players as well as young men who have been selected for each team via a groundbreaking reality TV series called Maidan e Sabz (Green Field). In the final match, Toofan Harirood  from West part of Afghanistan won the cup.

Young generation in Afghanistan are not interested in war anymore, as they understand that sport can be a good tool to unify country and remove all traditional biases.

FilmAnnex by means of Afghan Development Project, have started supporting Afghan youth not in Education even in sport.  Esteql Football team is the second best team in Kabul Premier League which is supported by FilmAnnex recently.  Afghanistan sport have started its long journey recently and it needs support in case of infrastructure and capacity building.

با شنیدن نام فوتبال شاید در ذهن اکثر طرفداران فوتبال  لیونل مسی به یاد آورده شود. وی یکی از بهترین بازیکنان در تاریخ فوتبال است که برای تیم بارسلونا بازی میکند. ورزش به عنوان یکی از سرگرمی هایی است که در آن گاهی اوقات تعصبات زبانی و نژادی به فراموشی سپرده میشود و میلیون ها نفر در سرتاسر جهان با همدیگر به تماشای مسابقه تیم دلخواهشان میپردازند. هر چند در افغانستان پس از سپری نمودن سالیان متمادی جنگ و ویرانی، ورزش اکنون جایگاه خاص خود را پیدا کرده است. چنانچه که اخیرا با ابتکار شرکت مخابراتی روشن، لیگ برتر فوتبال افغانستان با ۸  تیم شرکت کننده از سرتاسر افغانستان به رقابت پرداختند. اینگونه مسابقات نه تنها باعث یکجا سازی مردم و ایجاد اتحاد و همبستگی میشود بلکه باعث کشف استعدادهای نخبه در ورزش افغانستان میشود که شاید کمتر از هیچ یک از بازیکنان بزرگ جهان نباشند، اما به علت کمبود امکانات ورزشی و حتی اقتصادی آنها در کنار ورزش به حرفه دیگری نیز مشغول اند که باعث میشود تا آنها نتوانند ورزش را به صورت حرفه ای دنبال کنند. ایجاد مکاتب حرفه ای ورزشی میتواند یکی از راه حل های موجود به منظور تعلیم حرفه ای از سنین خردسالی باشد.
اما اینکه چگونه دولت میتواند توجه لازم در این زمینه داشته باشد خود نیز در خور توجه است. گرچه با مقایسه ورزش افغانستان در چند سال گذشته متوجه میشویم که ورزش، دارای رشد فزایندی بوده است که از آن جمله میتوان حضور در رقابت های بین المللی و المپیک را نام برد که با دستاوردهای شایسته ای همراه بوده است.

  Fereshteh Forough 



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Afghan Perspective is a weekly column presenting Afghan Women and Men's views on CBS' 60 Minutes shows. The Afghan writers watch each episodes and then try to relate the topic to what is happening in their country. The main goal is to connect people presented in the shows with Afghans…

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