Maral Torkaman

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, he 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]

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

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. He 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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