The Super Subs: Women's Sports

Women’s football in the World, and especially in the Middle East, lacks the visibility and recognition it deserves. This is why your host, Assile Toufaily, has decided to launch this podcast and dedicate it to the women’s game. Female football players in our region now have a platform to share their experiences and their anecdotes but most importantly their struggles. Episodes will either be solo or duo episodes...

Aged 8, Lili kicked her first ball.

Little did she know that 10 years later, she would be heading to a new country, all by herself, to play football on a professionnal level.

On 25 October 2022, Joanna Hamzeh ticked a special item off her bucket list. She won the U18 West Asian Football Tournament as the Lebanese National Football Team's Head Coach.  In this episode, we talk about this triumph, but we also talk about the start of women's football in Lebanon and the role of Al-Ansar FC and Al-Sadaka club. ------------------------------- ?? 25/10/2022? ??? ??????? ???????? ??????? (??? 18 ???) ????? ??? ???? ?????? ??????? ???????? ??????? ????? ????...

December 1st, 2022: a day Stéphanie Frappart will remember forever... and us, too, women's football fans!

She will become the first ever female referee to officiate a match in the Men's World Cup. It is a group stage match between Costa-Rica and Germany.

You can listen to the Podcast on Anghami, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other Podcast platforms...

From Pilar Khoury in France, passing by Nancy Tchaylian and Dima Kasty in Saudi Arabia to Haneen Tamim in the US, Lebanese female footballers are finally building a career for themselves abroad!

How can these recent transfers benefit Women's football in Lebanon? What can we expect from them?

In this fourth episode, I share with you my opinion on this very exciting achievement...

After dedicating most of her life for football, Samira Awad had a decision to take: to stop or not to stop playing football?

Due to the lack of opportunities/funding/visibility in the women's game in Lebanon, playing football cannot but remain a hobby for most of the girls...

The 2022 Qatar Men's World Cup was considered by many as the best ever Men's World Cup.

But what about Women's Football in Qatar? How's it going there? Where does the Qatari Women's National Team stand in the FIFA Ranking?

In this sixth episode, I share with you the history of Women's Football in Qatar and its lack of development...

Rana Mokdad is without any doubt one of the most dedicated and hardworking girls in the Lebanese Football Community.

From a young age, and unlike the majority of female footballers in Lebanon, she worked on the physical aspect of her game. She took it to a whole new level when she decided to do a masters in "Sports and Exercise Science" at the Technical University of Munich...

In this eighth episode, I had the opportunity to sit down with Natalie Ghabayen and discuss both women's football and women's basketball in Lebanon.

Natalie is considered one of the few to have played both sports in Lebanon. In Basketball, she was an important member of many teams such as Sagesse, Champville, Antranik and Homentmen. In Football, she started her career as the main goalkeeper for Athletico. She also played with Girls Football Academy "GFA"...

If Women's Football in Lebanon is passing through what might be considered as a development phase, Women's Volleyball is struggling to exist.

In Episode 9, I sat down with Andrea Abi Saab, a member of the Lebanese Women's National Volleyball team and had a very pleasant and informative talk about the situation of women's volleyball in the country...