Soccer star Nadia Nadim, who fled Afghanistan to Denmark, has studied medicine and speaks nine languages.
Star player for the Danish women’s national football team Nadia Nadim has been criticized for becoming Qatar’s World Cup ambassador. The Qatar Games in November-December have been widely criticized for corruption and the deaths of thousands of migrant workers during stadium construction.
However, it has been possible to recruit well-known former players as ambassadors for the tournament. In addition to Nadim, they include Xavi, Cafu, Tim Cahill, Samuel Eto’o and Ronald de Boer.
In Denmark, Nadim’s solution has been disappointed.
– We will continue the critical debate in the Alliance with full force, regardless of what Nadia Nadim is doing in Qatar, President of the Danish Football Association Jakob Jensen said.
– Nadia is allowed to make her own choices, but we have to keep our distance from what’s going on there. As an ambassador, you accept what is happening in Qatar and we as a players’ association cannot support it. If he had asked us, we would have advised him not to leave, the chairman of the players’ association Jeppe Curth stated.
Nadim has received criticism in the past after talking about Qatar in a positive tone. It has brought different shades to his public image, which has been very positive. Nadim has been a big role model in Denmark.
Born in Afghanistan in 1988, Nadim fled the country with his mother and sisters in 2000 after the Taliban executed his father. They ended up in Denmark. In Denmark, Nadim has become a football star, in addition to which he has studied medicine and speaks nine languages.