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Maria Khan delivers heart-touching speech to teammates
The Pakistani football players, who finished second against Saudi Arabia in the final competition, seem quite excited and motivated to prove themselves as the best football team ever in the country’s history.
Riyadh: Maria Khan, the captain of Pakistan Women Football team, delivered motivational speech for her team members to step up and prove themselves as the best players.
“Listen up, if this tournament doesn’t show you that we belong then I don’t know what else will. Every single one of you steps up when you need to step up. People came on and made difference in the game. This is the standard and we only gonna give back. Now we have every single of you can step up. Guys its only up from here. Upwards and onwards. You know what I’m sayin is,” said the captain, standing together and holding each other in a circle. There was background music in Arabic and the girls got motivated after listening to the motivational speech
Taking to Twitter, Pakistan Football Federation shared the soul-touching speech of women team’s captain Maria Jamila Khan—a Pakistani-American who scored directly by hitting an amazing free kick in the final competition against Saudi Arabia two days ago.
Football Federal tweeted, “ R E P R E S E N T 🇵🇰
Watch as captain Maria Jamila Khan delivers a speech that embodies the soul of women’s football in Pakistan!
The only way is up. PAKISTAN ZINDABAD! â¤ï¸
#PakistanFootball #DilSayFootball #WomensFootball
Here is her speech: