HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The word goal has multiple meanings: there's making it into the net, and there's envisioning doing so.

"If you fight for your right, one day you will achieve the things you want," Sodaba Khinjani said.

"If I be scared or if other girls be scared, if we be silent, that's what they want, that is what they want from us, and I will not allow that." For these women, just being on the field is a form of protest.