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Along with many other sports, football has been largely ignored in Pakistan. With minimal finances and poor infrastructure, Pakistan has been falling down the FIFA rankings over the past few decades. Players like Kaleemullah Khan, Hassan Bashir, Zesh Rehman, Yousuf Butt have made a name for themselves in the Pakistani footballing world by trying their luck in international leagues. While Pakistani origin players such as Ghayas Zahid and Adil Nabi have been ignored by the authorities in Pakistan.

Football in Pakistan has suffered through the hands of Politics, as many others sports have experienced. The football federation in Pakistan has been a victim of politics, corruption and irrational decisions in the past, but lately there have been some positive improvements.

Some players like Zesh, Adnan Ahmed and Atif Bashir were born outside Pakistan but they have chosen to represent Pakistan at the highest level. The women football in Pakistan lacks even less support than their male counterparts even though female players like Hajra Khan have been quite active by taking part in numerous international competitions and matches.

Last week another female player of Pakistani origin made headlines as she was signed by Italian club Napoli. Napoli men’s team is one of the biggest clubs in Europe with players such as Lorenzo Insigne and Dris Mertens at their disposal, while Diego Maradona played some of his best club football at Napoli.

Born on August 20, 1998, to Moobin Akhtar and Mushtaq Hussain the left-footed twenty-two year old winger Aqsa is from Bradford, England. She has been playing football since the age of six and has previously represented Bradford City Ladies in Women Premier League North Division.

A die-hard Liverpool and Steven Gerrad fan, the young midfielder had a great season for her former club, the Lenoir-Rhyne University in the United States and was voted South Atlantic Conference Player of the Year in 2019-2020. During the 2019-20 season, she started in 17 of 18 games for the Bears scoring 13 goals. and was named to the All-SAC First team in 2018. During her stay in U.S. from 2016 to 2019, she scored a total of 24 goals in 70 matches with 12 assists.

In the coming 2020-2021 season, South Atlantic Conference Player of the year will be seen wearing the number 12 jersey for the “Gli Azzuri”.

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