‘Sometimes you feel very sad’: what the Iranian football asylum seekers can expect from life in Australia

‘It will be challenging to learn English, or to know about the new culture, but everything takes time’, says Afghanistan-born cricket player Tooba Sarwari Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast If anyone knows the emotional turmoil the Iranian football players have experienced in the past 48 hours , as they leave their homeland behind for a new life in Australian, it’s Tooba Sarwari. The Afghanistan-born cricket player left everything behind when she fled to Australia on a humanitarian visa in 2021 amid the fall of Kabul. The Iranian footballers’ individual experiences are as unique as they are unenviable, says Sarwari, who arrived on a humanitarian visa amid the fall of Kabul.