The newest version of South Asians in Soccer Weekly is out after one other good week for the neighborhood within the Lovely Sport…
Former England U17 worldwide Simranjit Singh Thandi is about to hyperlink up with Adil Nabi and signal for Cypriot aspect Doxa Katokopias, Sky Sports activities Information can solely reveal.
Sky Sports activities Information revealed earlier than Christmas that Singh Thandi had obtained affords from three completely different leagues throughout Europe as he contemplated his subsequent vacation spot.
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Former Leicester teen Sim Thandi mirrored on his transfer to Cypriot aspect AEK Larnaca the place he made his senior debut in a 4-0 Europa League qualifying win in opposition to Levski Sofia final season
Singh Thandi is a product of the Leicester Metropolis academy the place he performed alongside Harvey Barnes, Hamza Choudhury and Luke Thomas, earlier than occurring to show skilled at Stoke Metropolis.
The Leicester-born wing-back is well-known in Cyprus, having spent three years enjoying at AEK Larnaca, earlier than becoming a member of Karmiotissa on mortgage final season.
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West Brom academy graduate Adil Nabi opens as much as Sky Sports activities Information’ Dev Trehan
Earlier this yr, Sky Sports activities Information revealed that fellow British South Asian Nabi was becoming a member of Doxa, having beforehand performed in England, Scotland, India and Greece.
Former England youth worldwide Nabi acquired his first purpose for the membership final week, smashing into the highest left nook from the penalty spot in opposition to Singh Thandi’s former membership AEK Larnaca.
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Zidane Iqbal supplied Manchester United followers a reminder of what they’re lacking out on after dazzling for FC Utrecht on the house of Dutch giants Feyenoord.
After an injury-delayed begin to his profession within the Netherlands, Iqbal made his first FC Utrecht begin final week and loved his first style of enjoying within the raucous surrounds of Rotterdam’s De Kuip Stadium.
Iqbal produced a star-turn efficiency for the guests with a 100 per cent completion price for tackles, tried lengthy balls and dribbles, taking 67 touches in simply over an hour on the pitch, with 94 per cent total go accuracy.
Feyenoord edged the competition 2-1, with one Dutch newspaper naming Iqbal as FC Utrecht’s participant of the match.
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Zidane Iqbal paid tribute to his pals, household and coaches on social media after changing into the primary footballer from Britain’s South Asian neighborhood to play for Manchester United
Manchester-born Iqbal, whose mom is Iraqi and father is British-Pakistani, is predicted to earn a spot within the Iraq squad for subsequent month’s AFC Asian Cup.
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South Asians in Soccer trailblazer Zidane Iqbal in motion for Iraq
Sky Sports activities Information revealed final yr that Iqbal was on account of be referred to as up by Iraq and handed a testing worldwide debut away at Iran.
Dr Zaf set for Arsenal swap
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Head of Sports activities Drugs Dr Zaf Iqbal has spent greater than eight years at Crystal Palace
In the meantime, Dr Zaf Iqbal will go away Crystal Palace on the finish of the season and exchange Gary O’Driscoll as Arsenal’s head of medical providers, in response to The Athletic’s David Ornstein.
Dr Zaf, who has labored at Tottenham and Liverpool, performed a key position in a breakthrough second in the course of the 2020/21 season, when Sky Sports activities Information revealed that Leicester’s Monday Night time Soccer conflict with Crystal Palace had been paused mid-game to permit gamers to open their quick in the course of the holy interval of Ramadan in a Premier League first.
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It was agreed pre-match that Leicester Metropolis vs Crystal Palace can be paused to permit Wesley Fofana and Cheikhou Kouyate to interrupt their Ramadan quick
Dr Zaf had liaised with Leicester Metropolis’s Dr Bryan English, earlier than the pair approached match referee Graham Scott to make a request to seek out an opportune second to permit two gamers, Wesley Fofana and Cheikhou Kouyate, to open their quick.
Scott – and managers Roy Hodgson and then-Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers – all agreed, and when the ball went out of play on the half-hour mark, Fofana and Kouyate have been afforded the chance to have a drink and tackle some meals.
This has now turn out to be a norm, with Sky Sports activities Information solely revealing earlier this yr that match officers throughout the leagues had been requested to discover a pure pause in play to permit gamers to interrupt their Ramadan quick throughout night matches.
‘Khan is paving the best way’
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Sam Khan scored Luton City’s winner within the Girls’s FA Cup
Luton City Girls head coach Myles Maddix hopes Sam Khan’s Girls’s FA Cup heroics can encourage the following era of South Asian women coming via.
Khan headed house a late winner in opposition to Keynsham City to arrange a profitable house tie subsequent month for Luton City in opposition to Girls’s Tremendous League aspect Brighton within the fourth spherical.
“Sam has all the time been a frontrunner and a job mannequin,” Maddix advised the WALT podcast.
“She’s somebody who has all the time led by instance, with expertise, and proven she is usually a mentor for others.
“I believe what she is doing now’s setting a bar and setting a tempo for different younger South Asian women to have a look at it and assume if she will be able to do it, why cannot I?
“They’ll begin to look [more] at soccer as a route that they’ll go down and observe, as a result of Sam is a kind of that’s paving the best way.”
Her Sport Too Luton City ambassador Hina Shafi added: “Sam epitomises what Luton is all about as a city and as a neighborhood.
“She embodies the spirit of Luton, the humility, the resilience, and the bouncebackability.
“It is implausible that Luton City Girls has created a tradition for abilities like Sam Khan to thrive in order that she will be her genuine self.”
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