Nadia Khan, a British-Pakistani football player chosen for the Pakistani women’s team to compete in the SAFF Women’s Cup, expressed her pride at being chosen to represent Pakistan and her eagerness to join her colleagues.
Nadia represents Doncaster Rovers Belles and is based in Leeds, United Kingdom. She was included in the 23-person Pakistan Football Federation squad for the SAFF championship, which begins on September 6 in Nepal. The 21-year-old midfielder will soon take a flight to Kathmandu to join the team under Maria Khan for her first international match wearing the national team’s colors.
Nadia discussed her journey, her views on being selected for Pakistan, and her goals for the future in an exclusive interview with Geo News. She and her family are quite proud of her for being chosen to represent Pakistan in the forthcoming competition, and she is incredibly eager to meet my teammates and enjoy herself. It’s a wholly unique experience. She is very excited to play for Pakistan over there, she continued.
She believes that competing at such a high level will encourage British South Asian girls to practice football and other sports. However, She is incredibly delighted and proud to be representing Pakistan, Nadia stated. Nadia Khan signed with Doncaster Rovers in 2017 and joined the development team after beginning her football career at the Leeds United regional talent center. She moved to the first squad to play in the FA Women’s Northern Premier Division in 2018 along with her colleagues.
She has her sights set on competing in the Women’s Super League, though. Her goals in football have always been very high. Insha’Allah, she also has faith that she will someday be a member of a WSL team. She intends to carry on competing for Pakistan and at the world level as she waits to see where the future leads her. When Khan was 11 or 12, watching Neymar and Ronaldo drew her to want to play the game herself, and she claimed she fell in love with football.
She also emphasized how her Pakistani family supported her throughout her football career. Due to her parents’ ethnicity, Nadia was qualified to represent Pakistan in sports. Around the age of 11 or 12, her older brother taught her how to play football in the backyard, and she later discovered YouTube, where she saw players like Neymar and Ronaldo play the game, as well as the fantasy aspect of it and their many skills and techniques. When asked how she got into playing football, she said that she thinks that helped her get interested in that side and attracted her to play football herself.
Her family has always encouraged her to play this level of football. Her mum and dad take her to every single game, and she thinks it makes it obvious when they take her to every single training session. And that encouragement has only made her love football even more. And she is thankful and lucky that her family supports her, and she is proud of her academic and athletic accomplishments, she added.
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