While Nadia Nadim is best known for being a prolific goalscorer during a career that has taken her to the likes of the Portland Thorns, Manchester City and, currently, Paris Saint-Germain, much of Nadim's time is spent carrying out charity work, ambassadorial work for the United Nations and learning languages -- she currently speaks nine fluently.

She has also, incredibly, managed to find the time to train to become a reconstructive surgeon and will complete her qualification once she retires from football.

Nadim's latest off-field project has seen her team up with PSG and KLABU, a charity that helps build sports clubs in refugee camps around the world. It is hoped this new partnership will initially reach 10,000 refugee children through sport.

It's a cause that is particularly close to Nadim's heart. Born in Afghanistan, she was just 11 years old when the Taliban murdered her father and, along with her mother and four sisters, was forced to flee through neighboring Pakistan with a forged passport, before eventually arriving in Denmark, the country she now calls home.

"The only thing I was thinking of was staying alive, you know, surviving until the next day," she tells CNN Sport. "I was just looking: 'Okay, what's going to happen? What's happening right now? How can I survive until the next morning?'

"And I think that's the case for a lot of the people who are in these camps. You know, it is in the moment and then you're trying to make the best out of it and then try to stay alive and hope for the best for tomorrow."
When Nadim arrived with her family in Denmark, they began living in a refugee camp, and it was here that she discovered her love for football.

In some fields close to where she was staying, Nadim recalls seeing other kids "playing around with this round ball."

"I was like: 'It looks really cool, I want to do the same,'" she says. "Since then, I've never left the football and look where it has brought me, to Paris Saint-Germain."
Source: CNN