Sahar’s Award Winning Case Study: Woman’s Football Pioneer
Sahar grew up in a “soccer-mad” family. Her father was a well-known referee, her brothers were good players and she refused to sit on the sidelines. Patiently, audaciously, one by one, she opened the doors of a world reserved for men. “Anything I wanted to do or say, he gave me the personality and the power. I think the time will come when women will be football stars just like the men .”
Sahar successfully founded women’s football [aka soccer] in Egypt. She fought against conservative values which dictated that women should not play. She said “I always dreamt of being a referee. I had patience and guts, and I accepted all sorts of sacrifices to do this.” She went on to head the Egyptian Women’s Football Federation and a serve as a member of the FIFA Committee for Women’s Football. Her approach? Hands-on. She attends national team training sessions and supports players on a personal and professional level.
Read more of Sahar’s story here on HotMommasProject.org, the world’s largest women’s case study library. Sahar is the winner of the Middle East category in the Hot Mommas Project global case competition.
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