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Jordanian Performance in Asia Cup Boosts Business and Women’s Soccer

Jordanian Performance in Asia Cup Boosts Business and Women’s Soccer

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James M. Dorsey
Jan 24, 2011
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Jordanian Performance in Asia Cup Boosts Business and Women’s Soccer
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Jordan may have been knocked out of the Asia Cup by Uzbekistan in the quarterfinals, but the team’s performance has boosted the country’s women’s soccer, an often controversial issue across the Middle East, as well as its soccer business.
At the very moment that Iran was banning women from watching soccer matches in public, Jordanian women were joining t…

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