Maral Torkaman
Personal information
Full name Maral Torkaman
Date of birth (2002-11-26)November 26, 2002 (age 19)
Place of birth Karaj, Iran
Position(s) back
Team information
Current team
 Nasr Fardis Karaj
Number 77

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]

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.

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]

Honors with National Team

Championship in Cafa 2020[4][5]

Football brother and sister

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.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Inviting Maral Torkaman to the national youth football team camp". IWSPORTS.
  2. ↑ "Maral Torkaman; A phenomenon that embarrassed its critics". IWSPORTS.
  3. ↑ "Valuable Torkaman; Ardalan tomorrow under the supervision of Ardalan". Varzesh 3.
  4. ↑ "The Iranian girls futsal team became the champion of Cafa competitions". Varzesh3.
  5. ↑ "Iran's under-20 women's futsal team won the "Cafa" cup". Farsnews.
  6. ↑ "Conversation with the only brother and sister of Iranian football / Photo". Khabaronline.
  7. ↑ "Anten sincere conversation with the only football sister and brother of Iran". Video Varzesh3.


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