Pakistan's Women Football Team Captain, Hajra Khan contributes 4 goals to Guinness World Records Match (2019)
The captain of the women football team, Hajra Khan represented Pakistan among 50 other nations in the Equal Playing Field (EPF) Festival of Football - Guinness World Records Match (2019).
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The Festival of Football was a 5-day extravaganza centered around a marathon World Record football match presented in collaboration with Twitter with a simple mission: Opportunity | Equality | Respect. Nothing more. Nothing less.
This Festival of Football was powered by Equal Playing Field (EPF), a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to challenging the gender inequalities that exist in sport.
While it only remains a dream for Pakistani women to be playing the Fifa World Cup one day, Hajra understands that time is running out, and for Pakistani women footballers the battle has only been becoming harder, since it was the last time in 2014 that the national team played an international tournament.
The captain of the women football team, Hajra Khan wants things to change. She wants the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) to look at the sport seriously, and more importantly see women’s football as an equal to men’s, and not just another formality, where there is only one season for women and that too a national football championship that does not last for more than a week.
With her head held high, she stunningly contributed four goals in the EPF Festival of Football that broke the world record this time having players from more than 50 nations. And among this huge amount of lady footballers, Hajra proudly represented Pakistan, making the nation proud.
25-year-old Pakistani footballer, Hajra was a part of Jordan Quest, the team that she played with last year as well, for the Equal Playing Field initiative, where the World Record Lowest Altitude Football Match was played at the Dead Sea in Jordan and this time in Lyon, France.
To her efforts she wrote in a Facebook post:
"Played football for 3.30 hours straight from 3 to 6:30 AM and scored 4 goals to contribute to the Guinness World Records Match organised by Equal Playing Field in Lyon, France. Super exhausted but what a great experience! Proud of myself for lasting that long after 11 hours of travel and no sleep! #AnygirlAnywhere"
