Jawaher Roble is the first veiled British woman looking to lead matches in the Premier League
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Somali immigrant Jawaher Ruble, 26, became the first British Muslim woman to wear a headscarf and lead football matches in Britain, and she is now looking forward to arbitration in the UK Premier League. Jawaher moved to Britain with her parents when she was ten years old, to escape the hell of the civil war that broke out in Somalia thirty years ago.
This trip was a harsh experience for Jawaher, because she left her country suddenly without saying goodbye to her friends and relatives. In Britain he was nicknamed "JG", which means jewels fond of football. Wisdom Jawaher resides in Wembley, in the British capital, London, and there she played her favorite game, which contributed to the speed of her integration and communication with her schoolmates at a time when she was not fluent in English. "You will not need other people's language to play football with them," she told the Daily Mail.
She added: “Football helped me a lot in order to develop myself, in addition to communicating with other students. I started taking the ball to school, and the students would come to me and ask to play together, and I agreed to that. "
But Jawaher's dream to play professionally ended when her parents prevented her from playing, but this led her to her new passion, which is refereeing. She says about that: I started volunteering in local clubs, and one time while I was in a girls' soccer club, and there were not enough rulers, they asked me to volunteer, so I accepted immediately. "I learned the laws quickly, and I'm happy to have this opportunity," she said. My dream in life was to be a professional football player, but then this passion became in refereeing. "
When asked if she wanted to arbitrate in the Premier League and Women's Super League, she replied, "Frankly, this is the desired goal." As a black Muslim woman, racial discrimination is something she knows and could happen, but she says she has never personally experienced many of these cases. "I am very lucky and I appear through my clothes that I am a Muslim, and I do not remember being exposed to racist attitudes," she added.
Jawaher talks about her strength, saying that "strength is to share your weakness with others, and to show them that this weakness is not the end of the world, and that they can get rid of it when trying, but without trying and striving, no one will ever reach his goal." It is noteworthy that Jawaher Hikma is officially approved by the English Football Association, and led the first match in her career in 2018, when she was 24 years old.