🎉🎉🎉🎉 so proud of Khalida Popal and so happy to have been a part of this project. 📕🏆

My Beautiful Sisters deserves recognition and support — and this is just the first of many to come. Thank you Suzy Wrack & John Murray Press for helping me to bring the story to the world . And amazing group of judges and The Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards thank you so much for this recognition.

The WINNER of the 2025 Overall Sports Book of the Year is... My Beautiful Sisters, Khalida Popal (John Murray Press) Chosen for its extraordinary power, emotional depth, and global relevance, Khaldia Popal’s courageous and compelling memoir tells the story of the Afghan women’s

This is incredible!!!! So so proud of Khalida Popal, 🏆 🏆 it takes such bravery to tell a story like this and put yourself out there the way she has, all (and always) to highlight the struggle of the women of Afghanistan.

Khalida Popal Suzy Wrack John Murray Press The Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards Congratulations 🙌 on your TWO! awards. It is an incredible book, thank you for sharing your story.

Well deserved! One of the bravest women I have ever had the pleasure of meeting! shorturl.at/92DKc Suzy Wrack Guardian sport Khalida Popal DER SPIEGEL The Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards

Khalida Popal's memoir is a powerful and moving story of courage, hope and the power of teamwork against all odds. We are incredibly proud to have published this inspirational book. Huge congratulations to Khalida! #CTSBA25

Congratulations Khalida Popal on your well-deserved awards for your excellent book! 😊

.Khalida Popal, Sir Chris Hoy and sports publisher Roddy Bloomfield are among the winners of the Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards 2025 (The Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards)👇 thebookseller.com/news/publisher…

The Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards John Murray Press Absolutely loved this book, heartbreaking, inspiring and incredible to read. Thank you Khalida Popal

I love that Khalida Popal is getting the recognition she deserves for 'My Beautiful Sisters' - such an important reflection on the struggle to get women's football moving in Afghanistan.

Today, the FIFA Council announced the establishment of an Afghan Women’s Refugee Team (AWRT) as part of a broader strategy to support Afghan women footballers both in and outside the country. 📢 Afghanistan Women's National Football Team lnkd.in/dPHdsViY and lnkd.in/dit25Y_S

This means so much. We are so happy for Khalida Popal and the girls. We have been working with the Afghan players based in Doncaster for a couple of years. Their determination to represent and play has left us in awe. They are are credit to women everywhere! ❤️

FIFA to move forward with an official refugee team to allow the Afghan women to return to the international stage, Khalida Popal did amazing work to make this possible and I look forward to seeing them represent their country again 🇦🇫

"We never played football for the sake of the game, but we played football to create sisterhood, to be the voice for our voiceless sisters in Afghanistan..." It was our pleasure to speak to the inspiring Khalida Popal about her book, My Beautiful Sisters. This courageous and

Huge congrats to Khalida Popal for winning the Best Sports Book of 2025 at The Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards 2025! 🎉 The former Afghanistan women’s team captain's 'My Beautiful Sisters' is a powerful story of courage, resistance & the need for women’s football. #MyBeautifulSisters

More than 1.6 million people have returned to Afghanistan this year, many arriving hungry, exhausted and afraid for their futures. Khalida Popal UNHCR is on the ground providing lifesaving support. Please donate to help families back in Afghanistan.

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | MY BEAUTIFUL SISTERS by Khalida Popal 🇦🇫 A gripping memoir about courage, the power of teamwork against all odds and the existence of hope in dark times. John Murray Press 🛒 stanchionbooks.com/products/my-be…

My Beautiful Sisters!!