Tasnim – With the AFC Women’s Futsal Championship 2018 kicking off in Bangkok on Wednesday, the-AFC.com has looked at five players to keep an eye on at the tournament’s second edition.
They include Iranian Fereshteh Karimi. The star and Most Valuable Player of the 2015 edition of the tournament, Karimi will look to lead Iran to back-to-back titles and reproduce the stunning form she showed in Malaysia three years ago.
The Tehran-born star scored six goals, including the winner in the final, and found the net a further five times as Iran took bronze at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.
Long-considered one of Asia’s finest players, Thailand 2018 gives the 29-year-old the chance to further enhance her already-glittering reputation, and she will arrive high on confidence having scored as Iran drew 2-2 with Ukraine last week.
Lyudmila Karachik (Uzbekistan), Cheung Wai Ki (Hong Kong), Sasicha Phothiwong (Thailand) and Shiori Nakajima (Japan) are also four other players who the-AFC.com has described as favorites at the tournament’s second edition.