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The pain and suffering of women referees

Assistant Referee Mary Njoroge.[Courtesy] 

Competing in football, women transgress the boundaries traditionally associated with acceptable femininity.

With some of them taking the referee course, they are framed as ambassadors for women and girls in football, in ways that are rarely expected of their male counterparts.

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