In the meantime, the port city of Jeddah, which is considerably more open to the world than the capital, Riyadh, and most other Saudi provinces, also now has a private women’s soccer club.
The typical Saudi lifestyle that binds women to the household also poses health risks. Many of them suffer from osteoporosis, diabetes, depression and symptoms of vitamin D insufficiency.
“Sports are the best medicine against depression and boredom,” al-Maeena said.
In her view, it would also be better for the social climate if girls and women could get more exercise in Saudi Arabia.
“It’s not for nothing that it is said, ‘The devil lives in the backyard of empty minds,’” she said.
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