Kim Kardashian West helps fly Afghan women soccer players to Britain: "I got a text message that Kim wants to fund the entire flight"
CBSN
Members of Afghanistan's women's youth development soccer team arrived in Britain early Thursday after being flown from Pakistan with the help of a New York rabbi, a U.K. soccer club and Kim Kardashian West.
A plane chartered by the reality star and carrying more than 30 teenage players and their families, about 130 people in all, landed at Stansted Airport near London. The Afghans will spend 10 days in coronavirus quarantine before starting new lives in Britain.
English Premier League club Leeds United has offered to support the players. Andrea Radrizzani, the majority owner of Leeds United, posted a photo of Afghan team members arriving at the airport. "Proud to be part of the team to make this real," Radrizzani tweeted.
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