Niloufar Ardalan
Niloufar Ardalan is an Iranian football player currently playing for "Zob Ahan Banovan". Ardalan plays as a left midfielder for the Iran women's national football team. She is also captain of that team.
In September 2015, she missed the Asian Cup because her husband, Mehdi Toutounchi, a TV presenter, refused to let her travel. This is allowed under Islamic laws enforced in Iran. Later the same year her husband also refused her to go to the world championships in Guatemala. Ardalan went to court, and the judge allowed her to go to the world championships. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.
