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Nadia Nadim, the dream at the end of the foot on Canal +

2021-10-07T03:11:15.761Z


CRITICAL - From her exile in Denmark to the title of 2021 French Champion with Paris Saint-Germain, the Afghan footballer is at the heart of a deeply moving documentary. To see this Wednesday, October 6 at 9:10 p.m. on Canal +.


Great misfortunes sometimes initiate incredible destinies.

Nadia Nadim's life could have been turned upside down at the age of 8, when she lost her father in Afghanistan, shot in the back by the Taliban in the middle of the desert.

Orphan hidden under her mother's burqa, she then fled the country to transit through Pakistan, then Italy, before reaching Denmark, a country of which she became a citizen.

“The refugee camp was right next to a field

,” she says.

It was there that I saw girls playing soccer for the first time.

I didn't speak the language, but the coach agreed to take me into the team.

Every morning I learned Danish.

Every afternoon I played ball.

It has become an obsession. ”

Endearing personality

In the

Nadia

biopic

, Anissa Bonnefont dwells on the

“seven or eight lives”

that the PSG striker has already lived, the 2021 French champion. The time for a football match (90 minutes) between laughter and tears , the director of

Wonderboy

(awarded at Tribeca Film

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Source: lefigaro

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