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Cold Sweat

Araghe Sard (Cold Sweat) an Iranian film brought me here. 

Based on real events Araghe Sard shows us Afrooz’s struggle against the Iranian legal system. She is the captain of Iran’s national women’s futsal team. After 11 years of effort and hard work, she achieves her dream, Iran is in the final of the Asian Nations Cup. They have to travel to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to play the match, but she is detained at the airport. 

Under Iranian law, no woman may leave the country without her husband’s permission, and Afrooz’s husband has used his legal right to prevent her from leaving the country. Thus, begins her long, painful struggle to try to travel abroad in time to play the final. Her husband, a famous television presenter from whom she had separated unofficially a year earlier, seems determined to stop her. It is difficult to know whether he is doing this to get his revenge on her for the breakup, or simply because he cannot bear Afrooz being an emancipated woman pursuing her passion and succeeding in her career as a futsal player, a competitive sport mainly reserved for men. Meanwhile, she faces the reality that all her success and prowess on the court becomes impotence and helplessness in the face of laws that do not treat men and women equally. 

On a lighter note, Afrooz and some of her team mates are also recruited to play in the futsal clubs league for women called Primera Division, Spain and they have to study the Spanish language. They learn it from the popular Latin Spanish song Oye Co Mo Va by Julio Iglesias.   

Off the record...it is also interesting to learn that Julio Iglesias once a professional footballer, positioned as goal keeper for Real Madrid Castilla in the 2nd Division of LA Liga often known as the second team for the Real Madrid Football Club. Estupendo!.

I might just add, your personality Sir is the epitome of panache. 😉

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