Nairobi, March 29 -- "When I saw, at the end of a match between the teams AS FAR (Rabat-based football club) and Assa Zag (a province located in the South of Morocco) boys run up to the female players to ask for their autographs, I realised that women's football had gained in popularity and is no longer marginalised," recalls Leila El Yousfi, coordinator of Morocco's sports-study programme.

In fact, a tangible social "revolution" has been taking place in the country in line with the emergence of the Atlas Lionesses, the Moroccan national female football team, which has succeeded in making a name for itself on the international scene.

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