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Sisters in Sweat: how a former Spurs player got 20,000 Indian women into sport

Published by The Guardian on November 10, 2026 at 7:00 AM ET

A dinner-party question, a Sunday kickabout and an idea that snowballed. Nine years on, Tanvie Hans and Swetha Subbiah have taken sporting sisterhood to 10 cities On a breezy evening in 2017, as conversations flowed and so did the drinks at a dinner party, Tanvie Hans was asked an all-too-familiar question at the table: “Hey, can you teach me how to play football?” For the Indian-born British footballer, who played professionally in England, it was an easy yes. Continue reading...

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