Nadia Nadim

Read the inspiring story of the Danish forward, who fled war-torn Afghanistan as a young girl to become a fully qualified Doctor.

“But I always knew I wanted to be successful.” “For me, I wanted more than that. And it is fitting to see her back in the Denmark squad for the tournament, given she played a key role in them qualifying, scoring nine goals in 10 games. “I felt free. An ACL injury keeps players on the sidelines for a lengthy period of time, so the race to be fit in time for the Euros - which has always been in her plans - was on. And in early 2022, the dream that she had been working towards for all these years came true as she qualified to become a doctor. In September 2021, it was revealed that she had torn her ACL playing for Racing Louisville in the NWSL. Although those wishes never came true for Nadim, fleeing to Denmark gave her the opportunity to be a kid again, away from the war in her homeland. Once in Scandinavia, Hamida admitted that she “felt safe for the first time in a very long time.” When Hamida learned that her husband had been executed, she knew she had to take her family and leave the country. “I don’t remember a specific dream I had when I was living in Afghanistan,” she said. After taking up football as a young girl, Nadim is now just shy of 100 caps for Denmark – the country she and her family settled in after fleeing war-torn Afghanistan.