Footballers from Chitral participate in a training session at the Sports Complex in Islamabad. Photo by Tanveer Shahzad
ISLAMABAD: For the young girls from Chitral who have left their hometowns for the first time, travelling to the federal capital has brought them double joy.
One, they have gotten the chance to see the country’s beautiful capital and second, they are receiving football training at the Pakistan Sports Complex - probably some of the few lucky students from the country’s far-flung areas to have found such an opportunity.
Among them is 13-year-old Sufiyana Wazir, who is one of the 40 under-16 football players from Chitral currently in Islamabad to receive training from Spanish coach Jose Alonso and Waleed Javed.