The Iraqi refugee designing football jerseys for all your favourite players

You know you’ve wound up in a male-dominated industry when your peers nickname you “the football girl”. This was the case for Diana Al Shammari, a sports fanatic since childhood who was born and raised in Iraq. “Football wasn’t really seen as something for girls at the time, especially where I grew up,” she remembers. “But I was obsessed with it anyway.” When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, it became too dangerous to go outside, let alone play football. “After the warhellip; read more raquo; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; View Gallery (8 images)nbsp;