June 2, 2015 7:50 pm

NJ Soccer Star's Escape from Afghanistan

One of the world’s best professional women’s soccer players in this weekend’s Women World Cup lives in New Jersey — and narrowly escaped a much different life. Nadia Nadim’s father secretly taught her to play soccer until he was executed by the Taliban. She, her mother and sisters fled Afghanistan. John Chandler has her story.

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