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November 18 – The third AFC Girls’s Soccer Convention has concluded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, following three days of discussions geared toward elevating girls’s soccer in Asia.
Held from November 12-14, the occasion introduced collectively girls’s nationwide crew coaches, technical employees, and key stakeholders to outline methods for sustainable progress within the girls’s sport.
Coming off a unprecedented yr for ladies’s soccer globally, the convention positioned emphasis on capitalising on Asia’s current successes, together with Australia’s semi-final look on the FIFA Girls’s World Cup 2023 and DPR Korea’s twin victories on the FIFA U-20 and U-17 Girls’s World Cups.
These achievements had been celebrated in the course of the convention’s opening classes, setting the tone for dialogue on advancing requirements throughout the continent.
The convention programme mixed knowledge-sharing classes, finest observe discussions, and strategic planning, reaffirming the AFC’s dedication to growing girls’s soccer and sustaining Asia’s aggressive edge on the worldwide stage.
“The AFC has underlined the event of ladies’s soccer as one of many key drivers in bringing to life our Imaginative and prescient and Mission statements and nowhere are these ambitions extra pronounced than within the Asian girls’s sport with our groups, throughout all ages, already being a world drive,” mentioned AFC Common Secretary Datuk Seri Windsor John.
“This yr, we’ve celebrated a number of milestones similar to an all-Asian closing in Colombia, DPR Korea’s unimaginable triumphs, and the launch of the AFC Girls’s Champions League. We should sustain the momentum and use this platform to unlock the true potential of ladies’s soccer in Asia.”
Final held in 2019, the convention commenced with the annual AFC Particular Grassroots Awards and AFC Particular Elite Youth Soccer Awards, honouring the efforts of the Confederation’s Member Associations (MAs) in nurturing the longer term generations of Asian soccer.
Vietnam emerged as massive winners on the awards, with Nguyen Hoang Phuong receiving the distinguished Finest Grassroots Chief award and the Soccer For All in Vietnam initiative being recognised because the Finest Grassroots Venture. In the meantime, China’s Tianjin Pengcheng Soccer Membership was acknowledged because the Finest Grassroots Membership and the accolade of Finest Grassroots Competitors went to Malaysia’s Liga Suparimau.
“Our collective obligation is to make sure we construct a brighter future by enhancing our buildings of excellence extra systematically and cohesively,” mentioned John.
“Subsequently, it delights me to witness our unsung heroes being honoured for his or her devoted efforts to develop the grassroots motion on the Continent.”
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