I am a new member of the Headquarters #SheBelongs Team. Here is some information about me:

Objective:
Dedicated and skilled soccer player with 4 years of experience in competitive play, seeking to leverage technical skills, strategic understanding, and a strong work ethic to contribute to a professional or semi-professional soccer team.

Playing Experience:
Most Recent Club: Afghanistan teenager-girls, soccer team, Kabul, Afghanistan
Position: Mid-fielder
Years Active: 2016 – 2021
Achievements: 40 goals, two medals
Specific Skills: Running, management of the team

Education:
Cottonwood High School – Murray, Utah - 10th grade student

I am so excited to see what this team, comprised of Utah refugee and non-refugee girls, will do with the next phase of this life-changing movement. I can't wait to join the alumni players and the other new players to have my own incredible experience of bonding, challenges, and joys.

You can watch a moving trailer of the feature-length documentary film the inaugural 2023 team made when they went to the Women's World Cup in Auckland, New Zealand. Link here.

This 2023 Trip was just the start of the #SheBelongs movement and I am SO excited to be able to take my own unique experiences, passions, and abilities to help produce the 2025 #SheBelongs Global Cup in Madrid Spain in June 2025. There we will meet, learn, and play with hundreds of young women from several countries as well as key leaders in Spain, home of the reigning World Cup queens.

This campaign isn't just about an amazing trip to Spain. It's really about creating special opportunities for young women like me, and for those who may not seem like me, to work hard, to grow through a robust education curriculum, consistent teamwork, creative local service, and limitless ambition.

I really hope you will support me and my new teammates, and millions of girls around the world who deserve to be seen for who they are and what they can do, not their gender or race.

Thank you!

#SheBelongs 2025 Global Cup HQ Team-Sharifa

Join me in my #SheBelongs journey advocating for gender equity and inclusion through soccer.

Team Members