They wear shorts and a t-shirt in the blaugrana colors, and pose smiling in front of the goal with several soccer balls. Anita Rafat appears a bit shy: she wears a kind of turban on her head and black stockings and an undershirt so that neither her arms nor her legs can be seen. In contrast, her sister, Fereshteh, has no complexes: she shows her hair and thighs. They are 37 and 28 years old, and fled Afghanistan in August on one of the Spanish evacuation flights. Now in Barcelona, they do what they could never do in their country: play soccer.

Afghan journalist and writer Zainab Saberi will be at the cultural space La Colectiva in Palma as part of the event on freedom of expression for women in Afghanistan organized by Catalan PEN.