Nadia Nadim is a 33-year-old footballer who plays for Denmark, but she is not your average athlete. Nadia Nadim's story of tragedy and triumph is an inspiration to many - and it's currently going viral on social media. While Ms Nadim is today considered to be one of the most influential football players, particularly after she won the French league title in the 2020-21 season with Paris Saint-Germain, her childhood was marked by trauma. 
Ms Nadim was born on January 2, 1988, in Herat, Afghanistan. She was just 11-years-old when the Taliban murdered her father, who had been a general in the Afghan army, according to The Independent. With her mother and four sisters, she escaped Afghanistan for Pakistan with forged passports, from where the family made its way to Europe.
"We planned to escape to London, where we had a few relatives, and with forged passports we came to Italy through Pakistan," Nadia writes on her website. 
"From there, me and my entire family went on a truck, thinking we where heading towards London. 
"After a few days, we all turfed of the truck, expecting to see Big Ben. We did not. All we saw was trees. We asked a passer-by and found out that the bus had dropped us in Denmark."
Denmark is the country that became home to Nadia and her family, and it's here that she began her career playing for the B52 Aalborg club. In 2009, Nadia Nadim made her debut for the Danish national team in Algarve Cup and has since earned a reputation as a prolific goalscorer who has helped her team to several wins. Her fantastic goal in the 2017 European Championship was one of the highlights of her impressive career. 
But that's not all - Ms Nadim even managed to find the time to train to become a reconstructive surgeon, according to CNN. She's a medical student at Aarhus University and plans to complete her qualification after she retires from football.