The incredible free-kick scorer Maria Khan is the niece of football legend Jehangir Khan

Maria Jamila Khan Pakistan Football Team Captain

The incredible free-kick scorer Maria Khan is the niece of football legend Jehangir Khan

This One for the ages!!

Thank you Khan family - Pakistan's Gratitude to u!!

Watch - Celebrate - Share - Repeat!! https://t.co/DbphzrLdtR

— altamish jiwa (@altamishjiwa) January 20, 2023

Karachi: Captain Maria Khan, who saved Pakistan from defeat by scoring a brilliant goal on a free kick in the match against Saudi Arabia, is a close relative of two world-renowned squash legends. In a match of the 4-country women's football tournament in Saudi Arabia, Maria Khan, the skipper of the Pakistan Football team, scored a superb goal that put her reality on the map. Because of this exclusive goal, Pakistan was additionally saved from rout.

She silenced her critics by being named 'Player of the Tournament but some now have an issue with this team talk being in English 🤦🏾‍♂️ https://t.co/TihyPvIo7D

— FootballPakistan.com (@FootballPak) January 21, 2023

Maria Khan took such a free kick from the sideline that the football flew into the pool. The kick was so powerful, fast, and on target that the goalkeeper of the opposing team could not stop it even after touching the ball. This exclusive goal video went viral on social media. Huge critics of football couldn't stay without adulating this objective of Pakistani female footballer. Pakistani public also appreciated Maria Khan. Maria Khan is a direct relative of two squash legends of Pakistan. She is the granddaughter of the widely acclaimed squash player Hashim Khan and was born in America and received squash training from her maternal grandfather there. Apart from this, Maria Khan is likewise the niece of squash legend Jehangir Khan who won six World Opens and 10 British Opens.

After completing her studies in America, Maria Khan joined a football club there as a goalkeeper. Later in 2013, Maria Khan had to come to UAE for higher education, but even here she continued her passion for football and started playing as a midfielder in the Emirati team. Maria Khan joined the WAPDA team in Pakistan in 2018 and was named among the 30 players in the national women's football team in 2020 and captained the national team in the same year 2020 for the SAFF Games in Nepal.

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