2024-01-23T13:44:38+00:00
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/ Iraqi sports photographer Amal Al-Nasrawi participates in photographing her country’s national team’s matches in the Asian Cup currently being held in the State of Qatar, after she worked on covering most of the Gulf 25 matches last year in Basra, in which Iraq won the championship title.
Society’s traditions did not prevent Amal Al-Nasrawi from carrying a camera and photographing football matches inside and outside Iraq, until her fellow photographers became accustomed to watching her move around the green rectangle searching for a different angle to take pictures of her country’s national team, to convey to the viewer scenes of the pain of loss or tears of joy in victory.
Amal Al-Nasrawi (60 years old) told Agency about her career in the field of photography, that she “has been a photographer for 45 years, and entered the field of sports photography 10 years ago.”
A member of the administrative body of the Photographers Association, Karbala Branch, adds, “I entered the field of sports photography in the West Asian Championship at Karbala International Stadium, as the first female sports photographer, and participated in photographing the Premier League, the Professional League, Gulf 25, and others.”
She continues, “I am currently participating in the Asian Cup in Qatar as the first female photographer from Iraq to enter the country to photograph the Asian Cup matches.”
Al-Nasrawi complains about the lack of support from the Football Association, as do her fellow photographers. “I traveled to Qatar at my own expense, because I liked Iraqi women to have a presence in sports stadiums in Qatar.”
The Iraqi team defeated the Indonesian team by 3 goals to one and inflicted a historic 2-1 defeat on Japan to qualify for the round of 16, leading the group on the head-to-head difference, regardless of the result of its next match with the Vietnamese team.
The match between Iraq and Vietnam is scheduled to be held in the third round of the group stage of the Asian Cup on Wednesday, January 24, at 2:30 pm Iraq time, at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, affiliated with Al Sadd Club.