Ladies first game against India

Sep 13, 2014 - 02:37:01 | Shimaaz Ali
Maldives national team captain Fadhuwa Zahir during today's practice session. (Photo: Shimaaz Ali)

Incheon, SOUTH KOREA – Maldives women's national team coach Ibrahim Haleem (Jadaa) said that they will be playing a defensive game against India in the first match of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games tomorrow.

"We will be playing a defensive game. It will be an interesting game for us and we all know that India is a much stronger team than us.They are one of the best teams in South East Asian region." Jadda said after the training session held at Korea Institute of Construction Technology Education.

"This will be the first match against India and this will help us a lot for the upcoming women's SAFF championship."

Maldives will play against India tomorrow at 1400 hours (1000 hours Maldives time). Maldives lies in the group A along with India, South Korea and Thailand.

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Should there be a women football team in the first place? I dont think so. Without having constant suppy of young players, mean to say a domestic league to back up their skills, this kind of one in few years preperation for a tounament is nothing but waste of money. We better work for what is feasible and what we have talent for, dabbling in all kinds of sports without going too much thought on its long term benefits, we are fooling ourselves of our capabilities. There is no way we can have long term future of female football, most of the players in the current establishment are there for the fun,  most of them will wants to marry before the age of 25 years. We are still a patriarchic society, also with the limited resource we should be trying for the kind of sports we are capable of  having a good chance in the international arena. 

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