Female soccer players that are Muslim and wear Hijabs are extremely excited to hear that the International Football Association Board is allowing them to test out a new Hijab with velcro instead of pins. Formally, the muslim soccer players were not allowed to play with their head coverings because they were a danger on the field due to pins that held the Hijab together. FIFA has been prohibiting these scarves since 2007, but now may be overturned because of the new safety feature, velcro. Even Iran's women soccer team was banned from this Summer's 2012 Olympic games in London because the players showed up with Hijabs before a match against Jordan in the previous year. But now, they are pushing to lift the ban. Other sports do in fact allow the wearing of headscarves, such as in the 2008 Beijing Olympics when Roqaya Al-Gassra reached the semifinals in the 200-meter sprint.
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