What's stopping Konate from another national call-up isn't her potential - it's that two years ago, she started wearing a hijab, a headscarf worn by many Muslim women to cover the hair and neck.
But when she wanted to play in a tournament in France that summer, match organisers told her she could only do it if she took off her hijab. She felt humiliated...
Konate felt abandoned by the FFBB and by many of her former national coaches, who never contacted her after Article 9.3 banning headscarves was implemented in December 2022.
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