The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is examining the sexual and physical abuse claims on Afghan women’s football team.

The former head of the women’s football department Khalida Popal, players Shabnam Mobarez and Mina Ahmadi and the head coach, Kelly Lindsey, have accused the Afghanistan Football Federation officials of sexually and physically abusing the players of the women’s football team.

Popal has told Guardian that the members of the women’s football team were sexually abused by two men who were accompanying the team during a trip to Jordan in February of this year.

She also added that her investigations revealed sexual, physical, and mental abuse of the female footballers by Afghanistan Football Federation officials.

The Afghanistan Football Federation in a statement said “The Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) vigorously rejects the false accusations recently made with regard to the AFF’s women national team.”

The statement further added “Should the AFF receive specific factual information and/evidence, it will not hesitate to initiate further investigations immediately and to take all appropriate steps to prevent such actions and prosecute those responsible for them.”