Red card for Saudi female football fan
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A FEMALE fan who disguised herself to infiltrate the male-only domain of a football stadium in Saudi Arabia has been red-carded, a police statement obtained yesterday says.
Men and women are strictly segregated in the kingdom, and football stadiums are out of bounds to women.
But one female supporter managed to sneak into a Friday fixture of the Abdul Latif Jameel Saudi professional league at Al-Jawhara stadium in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.
She wore men’s clothes “and deliberately covered her head so as not to be detected by security and not to draw attention,” police spokesman Atti al-Qurashi said in the statement.
A video posted on YouTube purported to show her sitting by herself among some empty seats in a section reserved for fans of the visiting Al-Shabab club from the capital Riyadh.
She seemed to be wearing a large hat with a scarf in Al-Shabab’s black and white colors for the match against Jeddah’s Al-Ittihad.
Qurashi said the presence of the woman, who bought her ticket online, was “against the regulations.”
He did not elaborate on whether she would face any charges but said her case “has been forwarded to the specialised authorities.”
Saudi women, required to cover from head to toe when outside the home, still need permission from a male guardian to work and marry.
Al-Shabab won 1-0.
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