Afghanistan, young footballer who fell from a US plane

There is also a player of the youth soccer team of Afghanistan among the ‘falling men’ of Kabul, the refugees who died falling from the US military plane C-17 they clung to to escape from the country controlled by the Taliban. This was confirmed by the ‘General Directorate of Physical Education & Sport’s’ of Afghanistan, explaining “with great regret and sadness” that Zaki Anwari, one of the promising young Afghan football players, “lost his life in a horrible accident”: Anwari ” he was trying to leave the country like hundreds of other young people from his country. He fell from the American military plane and lost his life “, reads the note, which explains that the footballer, like the other victims of this tragedy, they were looking for a “better future in America”.