Niloufar Ardalan

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Niloufar Ardalan
Personnel
birthday May 16, 1984
place of birth Iran
position Midfield (left)
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
Zob Ahan Banovan
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
Iran 21 (13)
1 Only league games are given.

2 As of 2015

Niloufar Ardalan ( listen to ? / I ; * May 16, 1984 ; نیلوفر اردلان; also Niloofar Ardallani ) is an Iranian soccer and futsal player . Audio file / audio sample

Life and athletic career

Ardalan plays soccer for the Iranian club Zob Ahan Banovan and is the captain of the Iranian national team . For years she has been considered one of the best Iranian soccer players; her nickname is Lady Goal . In 2003 she was a member of the national team that played the first official futsal game for an Iranian women's national team. Three years later she was part of the team that played in Tehran against a women's team from the Turkish football club BSV Al-Dersimspor from Berlin-Kreuzberg . A planned return match in Berlin was canceled at short notice by the Iranian side. The documentary Football Under Cover was shot about this encounter .

Dispute over Iranian passport law

In 2015, 30-year-old Ardalan was nominated for the Iranian futsal team to take part in the first championship for women of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC Women's Futsal Championship) from September 21 to 26 in Nilai , Malaysia . However, she could not take part because her husband, the well-known sports commentator Mehdi Toutounchi, who is actually considered a supporter of women's football , prevented her from leaving. He justified this with the youngest son's enrollment on September 23, which she had to attend.

In an interview, Niloufar Ardalan stated that her passport had expired and that her husband had refused to renew it. According to Article 18 of the Iranian passport law, this consent of the husband is required. She trained intensively and prepared for this championship. On Instagram , she wanted an exception for athletes and describes herself as a soldier and flag bearer of her country.

The exit ban for Niloufar Ardalan was answered, among other things, with a campaign by the online movement My Stealthy Freedom , which was launched in May 2014 by the journalist Masih Alinejad, who now lives in London. A few Iranian men posted the slogan “Now is the men's turn” on Facebook and under the hashtag #itsmensturn on social media in Iran, calling for a change in the passport law. Women used the hashtag #WeAreAllNiloufarArdalan. Other Iranians saw the issue as a purely private matter: if they cared about their family more than football, it would never have been an issue, the campaign met with little response in Iran. After civil society protests after the Iranian presidential elections in 2009 have been contained and crushed, there has been a rather standstill. Women's rights in Iran are still restricted in many ways. Iran is one of the few countries in the world that has  not signed the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women .

In November 2015, Ardalan was able to travel to Guatemala to participate in the Futsal World Cup after she went to court and the authorities issued her a one-time exit visa against her husband's wishes.

After the husband of the Paralympic archer Zahra Nemati tried to prevent her from leaving for a sporting competition, a new passport law was passed in Iran. Afterwards, instead of the husband, the authorities decide on the departure of women who want to take part in sports competitions, academic and cultural conferences and festivals, who want to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca or who need medical treatment abroad.

Movie

In September 2018 the film Araghe Sard ( The Permit , English title Cold Sweat ) by Soheil Beiraghi was released, which is based on the story of Niloufar Ardalan's departure. The leading actress Baran Kosari lost 20 kilograms and trained in futsal to portray the main role, while Amir Jadidi played her husband. The film was rarely seen in Iran because it was boycotted by the most important cinema chain Hozeh Honari . It was released in France in November 2018 under the title La Permission . The Association of Iranian Filmmakers protested publicly against the “illegal boycott” by the cinema chain, which is affiliated with a state-supported Islamic propaganda organization. When the film was to be shown for the first time at the Fajr International Film Festival in February 2018 - where it also won two awards - Niloufar Ardalan's husband, Mehdi Toutounchi, tried to prevent this by means of an injunction, but later withdrew his request.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ نیلوفر اردلان (German profile of Lily Ardalan). Football Association of the Iranian Republic of Iran, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  2. ↑ SportsHub: How atrocious: Iranian footy player to miss AFCWF as husband refrains .... (No longer available online.) In: sportshubfeeds.sportsblog.com. September 18, 2015, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on November 30, 2015 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sportshubfeeds.sportsblog.com
  3. ↑ a b c d Yalda Zarbakhch: "Now it is the turn of the men". In: Qantara.de. Retrieved November 30, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Futsal Planet. (No longer available online.) In: futsalplanet.com. February 28, 2005, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; Retrieved December 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.futsalplanet.com
  5. ↑ Swantje Karich: Ninety minutes of freedom. In: FAZ.net . May 4, 2006, accessed November 30, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Iran's big woman problem: All of the things Iranian women aren't allowed to do. In: telegraph.co.uk. September 21, 2015, accessed November 30, 2015 .
  7. ^ Anne Haeming: Women's football: Iran cancels game against Berlin team at the last minute. In: Spiegel Online . May 31, 2007, accessed November 30, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Iranian Female Soccer Star Faces Husband-Imposed Travel Ban - PersianLeague.com. In: persianleague.com. Retrieved November 30, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press: Niloufar Ardalan, captain of Iranian women's soccer team, to miss Asian Cup after her husband takes away her passport. In: news.nationalpost.com. September 16, 2015, accessed November 30, 2015 .
  10. ↑ a b Heather Saul: Niloufar Ardalan: Women launch hashtag in solidarity with Iranian. In: Independent . September 18, 2015, accessed November 30, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Iran: Footballer calls for easing of women's travel laws - BBC News. In: BBC News. Retrieved December 21, 2015 (UK English).
  12. ↑ Female footballer leaves Iran, after court overrules her husband's ban. In: Straits Times. November 24, 2015, accessed November 30, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Iran: national player gets special permission to leave the country. In: iranjournal.org. November 24, 2015, accessed November 30, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Majlis mulling to ease passport rules for women. In: Tehran Times. July 29, 2017, accessed July 29, 2017 .
  15. ↑ a b Iranian drama 'Cold Sweat' getting international attention. In: futsalfocus.net. November 3, 2018, accessed April 28, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Cinéma. “La Permission”, the combat d'une Iranienne pour disputer the match de sa vie. In: courrierinternational.com. November 27, 2018, accessed April 28, 2019 (French).
  17. ^ Clarisse Fabre: "La Permission": une rebelle sous contrôle. In: Le Monde. November 28, 2018, accessed April 28, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Ardalan, Niloufar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ardallani, Niloofar (different spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian soccer and futsal player
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1984