KP women football trials at City Gulbahar Girls College on Oct 30-31: Najma Qazi.

PESHAWAR -- The trials to select Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Women Football team will be held on at the ground of the City Girls College Gulbahar on October 30-31 here.

This was stated by Najma Qazi, daughter of former hockey Olympian of 1968 Olympic Qazi Salahuddin while talking to reporter here on Sunday.

Najma Qazi said that all arrangements in this connection have already been completed to hold the trials and girls from across the province including merged tribal areas have been asked to appear in the trials to select a strong KP women football team for the forthcoming 33rd National Games to be scheduled from November 10-15, 2019 here.

Flanked by former Secretary of the KP Football Association and former international footballer Basit Kamal, Najma Qazi said that they would short-list 25 probables in the first phase and among them a final team of 18 players would be finalized on November 8, a day before the commencement of the 33rd National Games in Peshawar.

She said trials and camps of the other female games have already been completed but due to last inclusion of the male and female football teams by the officials of the Normalization Committee announced by World governed body FIFA to include football in the National Games they are now taking the trials on...