About The Speaker
Maymi Asgari
Maymi is a football freestyler and a verified TikTok content creator. Her focus is fighting against prejudice, hijabi wearing minorities meet in western countries. She does that by creating and posting football content on TikTok and Instagram to normalize the image of a hijabi girl/woman playing football and being good at football tricks. She holds speeches at different schools and shares her experience as a minority and the discrimination she experienced growing up in Denmark and being a hijabi footballer. She speaks about not fitting in to neither the middleast or Denmark and holds workshops where she teaches young kids football tricks because she believes sport can gather all kind of people. She was one of the Danish footballers for EURO 2020.