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Your daughter wears a hijab to play football

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A young teenage girl in a sports hijab and football kit takes a controlled touch on the ball during a community football match.

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Your daughter is twelve. She has decided this season she wants to wear a hijab when she plays football. Or someone at the club has told her she cannot, and she has come home upset. Or you are about to enrol her at a new club and you do not know whether her hijab will be welcome.

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