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| Full name | Maral Torkaman | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 26 November 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Karaj, Iran | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | back | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Nasr Fardis Karaj | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maral Torkaman (Persian: مارال ترکمان; born November 26, 2002) is an Iranian futsal player. She was called up to the Under-14 national football team at the age of 11 and has been a regular member of the women's national football team since then.[1] In the summer of 2019, she accidentally and unexpectedly decided to participate in futsal and joined Saipa Tehran and became a student of Niloofar Ardalan; Presence in Saipa gave Maral Torkaman the opportunity to play alongside the best futsal players.[2]
Club Career
[edit]She reached an agreement with Nasr Fardis Karaj team for the Iranian Women's Futsal Premier League 2021 and became a member of this team.
National Career
[edit]Torkaman has a history of captaining the Iran women's national youth futsal team in the 2020 CAFA Championship. She performed well and was named tournament most valuable player.[3]
Football brother and sister
[edit]Maral Torkaman and his brother Mehdi Torkaman are the only siblings who play at a high level in Iranian football. In recent years, Iranian football has seen more football brothers. But it has never been seen that a brother and sister can shine in the first level of football and make a name for themselves.[4][5]
Honors
[edit]Iran
[edit]CAFA Championships:2023, 2024[6][7]
Individual
[edit]Best Player of CAFA Tournament: 2024
Best Player of CAFA U‐19 Tournament:2020
References
[edit]- ^ "Inviting Maral Torkaman to the national youth football team camp". IWSPORTS.
- ^ "Maral Torkaman; A phenomenon that embarrassed its critics". IWSPORTS.
- ^ "Valuable Torkaman; Ardalan tomorrow under the supervision of Ardalan". Varzesh 3.
- ^ "Conversation with the only brother and sister of Iranian football / Photo". Khabaronline.
- ^ "Anten sincere conversation with the only football sister and brother of Iran". Video Varzesh3.
- ^ "The Iranian girls futsal team became the champion of Cafa competitions". Varzesh3.
- ^ "Iran's under-20 women's futsal team won the "Cafa" cup". Farsnews.
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