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The #Sapmi representative football team has travelled from Lapland to Paonta Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, #India, where they will play #Tibet on Friday!
Congratulations on both teams on making this happen - what an incredibly meaningful match! ❤️
Congratulations on both teams on making this happen - what an incredibly meaningful match! ❤️
To put this in perspective:
The only non-FIFA team that regularly fields a women's national team is probably @MatabelFootball (@QueenLozikeyiAc). They play at least annual matches, with trainings in between.
Sapmi's women only played a single match in the last decade.
The only non-FIFA team that regularly fields a women's national team is probably @MatabelFootball (@QueenLozikeyiAc). They play at least annual matches, with trainings in between.
Sapmi's women only played a single match in the last decade.
Tibet has a very active women's football scene with an annual tournament between different Tibetan clubs from across India (which has just ended). But they didn't play with a national team since 2016.
So this is really HUGE for women's football of minorities.
So this is really HUGE for women's football of minorities.
Braşov's train station on an early morning. Time for another short #railway trip! This time I'm on the IR366, which starts in Braşov, loops through Romania via Miercurea Ciuc, Dej and Cluj to Oradea, where it crosses into Hungary and trundles on to Budapest.
This area is called #Székely Land, and is where most of the Hungarian minority in Romania lives. In fact, in many places here they might even consist up to a full 100% of the local population. In Harghita province where I'm heading to, 85% of the population is Hungarian.
I'm getting off at Băile Tușnad, or Tusnádfürdő as it is called by the Hungarian majority of this small spa town. It's also officially #Romania's smallest town ("oraş"), having only 1,641 inhabitants!
