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Kiron upbeat to take country’s women’s football to next level
DHAKA, April 8, 2019 (BSS)- Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) executive committee member and women’s wing chairman Mahfuza Akhter Kiron said she would do her best to take the country’s women’s football to the next level.
She was speaking to the pressmen today at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport after attending the AFC congress 2019 in Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
A BFF delegation received Kiron at the airport as the flight carrying her landed this noon.
Kiron also expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for giving her the chance for running in the election.
“You all know what I’ve done for the country’s women football. I’ll do my best to take the country’s women football to the next level in the days to come,” she told reporters.
Kiron was elected as a member of the AFC Female Executive Committee (South Zone) in the election held during the AFC congress 2019 in Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on April 6.
She has also been re-elected as council member of FIFA for the second consecutive term.
BSS/SG/SMM/1905 hrs