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Wednesday 13 May 2015 - 12:17 Makkah mean time-24-7-1436
Players from the Auburn Tigers women's football team, which is predominantly Muslim. (Google image)
Sydney, (IINA) - Australia’s first all-Muslim women football team is preparing itself to make history when it plays a historic curtain-raiser at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) next month, OnIslam reported.
“To have an opportunity to play at the MCG, is something most people would dream of,” Amna Karra-Hassan, Auburn Giants founder and player, told Herald Sun on Tuesday.
The Auburn Giants was started five years ago in the soccer and rugby league heartland of western Sydney.
The Muslim team was offered an opportunity to take to the field before Collingwood’s clash with Greater Western Sydney on June last year.
It will be the first time a Muslim women’s team has played before Australia Football League (AFL) crowd at the MCG.
The AFL is the highest-level professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football.
According to market research, the AFL is the second-most-watched sporting event in Australia, behind cricket.
Muslims, who have been in Australia for more than 200 years, make up 1.7 percent of its 20-million population.
Islam is the country's second largest religion after Christianity.
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