The most recent version of South Asians in Soccer Weekly is out after one other action-packed week for the neighborhood within the Lovely Recreation…
Sam Khan’s late header gave Luton City a well-known Cup victory over Keynsham City Women, organising a dream Ladies’s FA Cup fourth spherical tie with Brighton.
With simply seven minutes left to play, hometown lady Khan needed it greater than anybody as she leapt to move previous the goalkeeper and rating the one purpose of the sport.
The purpose capped a fairytale return for Tennessee Wesleyan School graduate Khan. She returned house and signed for Luton as the lads’s workforce clinched promotion to the Premier League following spells enjoying at the next stage in England at Cambridge Metropolis and Actonians.
The win is especially vital for Jap Ladies’s Premier League facet Luton City, who earn £35,000 in prize cash for reaching the fourth spherical of the Adobe Ladies’s FA Cup.
They’re the lowest-ranked workforce left within the competitors and can now host Ladies’s Tremendous League facet Brighton, who’re 4 divisions above them within the high flight of English girls’s soccer.
Talking solely to Sky Sports activities Information, Her Recreation Too Luton ambassador Hina Shafi mentioned: “Sam Khan is such a wonderful position mannequin for South Asian women and South Asians in Soccer, and he or she’s additionally an exquisite ambassador for the ladies’s recreation on this nation.
“Sam epitomises what Luton is all about as a city and as a neighborhood. She embodies the spirit of Luton, the humility, the resilience, and the bouncebackability.
“It is unbelievable that Luton City Women has created a tradition for abilities like Sam Khan to thrive in order that she might be her genuine self.
“It is a really unbelievable achievement for the membership to make it by way of to the fourth spherical and it is nice to see that they’ve now earnt the precise to play a WSL workforce in Brighton within the subsequent spherical.”
Former Manchester United teen Zidane Iqbal continued to step up his return to motion with one other half an hour off the bench for FC Utrecht in a 1-1 draw with RKC Waalwijk.
Sky Sports activities Information broke the story that Iqbal had made historical past in December 2021 when he appeared in Manchester United’s Champions League recreation towards Younger Boys to change into the first British South Asian to play for the club.
Premier League Equality and Variety Panel member Monica Shafaq has joined the board of the Manchester United Basis.
United chief working officer Collette Roche has been appointed as the brand new chair of the Basis’s board of trustees – with Shafaq, Christopher Saad and Lottie Birdsall-Sturdy taking over locations as charity board members.
Shafaq mentioned: “Soccer has the facility to affect hearts and minds, and the flexibility to vary younger folks’s lives for the higher.
“Given the quite a few challenges our younger folks face in right this moment’s society, we have now an ethical obligation to do what we will, making the Basis’s mission to help youngsters and younger folks extra essential than ever.”
Simran Jhamat scored the decisive purpose to earn West Bromwich Albion Ladies a slim 1-0 league win at Derby County.
West Brom’s high goalscorer made no mistake with a scientific end after some unbelievable work from Phoebe Warner, who fought arduous to win again possession earlier than enjoying Jhamat by way of.
The previous Liverpool ahead steadied herself and unleashed an unstoppable effort from the sting of the world, leaving Derby goalkeeper Anna Draper with no probability. The outcome ended Derby County’s six-match unbeaten run.
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Vicky Jepson advised Sky Sky Sports activities Information that Simran Jhamat’s performances for England at youth stage helped persuade her to present the ahead a debut for Liverpool again in 2019.
Bradford-born Aqsa Mushtaq, in the meantime, scored a last-minute winner for OFI Crete towards Kastorias.
Sky Sports activities Information revealed earlier this 12 months that the attacking midfielder, who is eligible to play internationally for Pakistan, was on the verge of joining OFI after leaving Championship side Lewes at the end of last season.
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Aqsa Mushtaq, who options within the first-ever timeline documenting the journey of South Asian heritage feminine gamers, appears again on making historical past as the primary participant of Pakistani heritage to play professionally in Italy.
Jas Singh saved one other clear sheet as Tamworth cruised to a 4-0 win at house to Southport within the Nationwide League North.
Singh has now saved 10 clear sheets and conceded simply 14 objectives in 21 league appearances this season. Tamworth are second within the desk, two factors behind leaders Scunthorpe United.
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Danny Batth scored his first purpose in a Norwich Metropolis shirt when he headed in from a nook towards Watford in simply the third minute of the sport.
Danny Batth acquired his first style of an East Anglian derby on the weekend, approaching as a late Norwich substitute in a 2-2 Championship draw at Portman Road at the weekend.
Fellow centre-back Easah Suliman, who featured alongside Batth in the 2022/23 Team of the Season, returned from a knee harm in Sumqayit’s 1-1 draw at Kapaz within the Azerbaijan Premier League.
Suliman’s Pakistan worldwide team-mate, Rahis Nabi, was additionally in motion, scoring an equaliser for Cypriot facet Digenis as they got here from behind to win 2-1 away at Lysi.