ABSTRACT
On 26 April 2006 a football game took place in Tehran’s Ararat Stadium which
was later described as a ‘historical event’: a women’s team from Germany, the
Berlin Sports Club AL-Dersimspor e.V., played against the Iranian women’s
national team. This was the first public women’s football match to take place
since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. It took one and a half years to organize and
to arrange this game, as preparations for the match were subject to constant set-
backs. After the match, the images of the sportswomen dressed in Islamic cover
attracted worldwide attention; these were also captured in the theatrical docu-
mentary film Football Under Cover (2008). The authors are players of the Berlin
team and co-producers of the film. With this chapter they thus reflect on an
event in which they were active.
