Aaqib Magray
Ganderbal 19 July:Qudsiya Altaf(23) years old young girl from brein nishat in central Kashmir’s Srinagar district perusing bachelors in interior designing from SSM college of engineering and technology parihaspora pattan Kashmir .
She started football journey in the year 2007, at that time she was the only girl who used to come for football practice at bakshi stadium but unfortunately she was not given coaching due to non availability of girls in this discipline then she started football practice herself with her father at home,Qudsiya said.
Later she started practicing at women’s college MA road under coach Mr Gulzar Ahmad. She was doing well then some girls that were elder then her got her injured in a car accident who were practicing with her at that very time but her passion for football never let her to give,so for sometime her practice was again stopped .
Later Ahmad Ishfaq a well known footballer of Kashmir started giving her coaching for some period of time at bakshi stadium.So many times she approached j&k football association /sports council regarding football coaching which then assured her that they will inform her when more girls will come up in the said discipline but unfortunately till date she didn’t got that call.
She has participated in state championships & got selected for nationals but unfortunately national team was dropped due to unrest in Kashmir valley.She was disappointed so many times then she went to NSNIS Patiala for certificate course in football then after she came back not as a player but as a coach. Presently she has been running her own football academy by the name “seven stars football academy” where she has been giving coaching to more than 55 boys free of cost besides that she has been working with great personalities of our state such as Mr Mehraj u din wadoo and Mr sajid Yousef Dar who are serving as a coaches in state football academy Srinagar.
She has also completed all the courses in snow skiing & also have played nationals for that and has been selected in Korean snow skiing.
