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PHOTO PACKAGE: Afghanistan's National Girls Soccer Team Trains In Portugal After Escape From Their Country

ATTENTION EDITORS: This gallery is not language edited, photos have original agency captions. It is filed at internal TheHub site in GDB Pangea for your usage, to be copied/adapted to your sites. (15 PHOTOS by AFP and AP)

Forced to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban came to power, players of the women's national soccer team and their families were welcomed to Portugal, where they are able to train again in a suburban stadium of Lisbon.

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