A campaign to allow Muslim women football players to wear headscarves was boosted on Friday when the chairman of FIFA’s medical committee said he has withdrawn his opposition.
The change of medical opinion from Michel D’Hooghe was a key step before FIFA’s law-making body could approve two scarf designs when it meets in Zurich next week.
“The problems I had (with scarves) were medical, and I don’t have those problems anymore,” D’Hooghe told The Associated Press. [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] Read more
