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"textContent": "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.”\n\nWhen the US invaded Iraq in 2003, it became too dangerous to go outside, let alone play football. “After the warhellip;\n\nread more raquo;\n\nnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;\nView Gallery (8 images)nbsp;\n\n",
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