THEIR red jerseys stood out against the green pitch. Most were teenage girls. Some had fled war. Others had never played in an organised football league or set foot in a major stadium before.Yet when they took the field at Larbi Zaouli Stadium in Casablanca, Morocco, they marked Sudan’s first appearance in international women’s football since a civil war erupted in a country where women’s participation in sports has long been controversial.

Teenagers from across Sudan and refugee communities in Egypt were outmatched in Morocco, but their return to the pitch is a defiant act in a country where women’s sport remains contested, writes AKRAM OUBACHIR

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