These gutsy schoolgirls are changing their circumstance with football
Updated On: 28 February, 2017 11:40 AM IST | | Fiona Fernandez
<p>Get inspired by gutsy schoolgirls from Jalna in a new documentary by Minnie Vaid, changing their circumstance with football</p>


The school football team with coach Rafiq Shaikh (centre, in white tee)
How did you come across this school in Jalna for the film 'Field of Dreams'?
I am a voracious reader. I came across an online article on a football coach in a rural school in Ambad in Jalna district that was working magic with girls. Rohini Pashte hadn't yet been selected for the Homeless World Cup in Chile. The story intrigued me enough to plan a trip to Ambad, where the school is based, and meet the coach, the principal and the extremely motivated students. Soon, one of their star pupils Rohini was selected by Slum Soccer to represent India at the HWC in Chile. However, even before that I had decided to make this documentary, as I felt it was a story worth telling.
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