Based on media reports, a US-settled Keralite woman, who plays soccer in the league circuit there, has come back to her native city with a mission: to promote women's football in her state, Kerala. The women is Margaret Miller who along with a few others, has launched "Kerala Women's Football Club", the first of its kind in the state, aimed at regaining the lost glory of women's football in the state.
The club would select 24 girls from various schools in the state and provide them with football kits, and train the selected players. Affiliated to the Kerala Football Association, the team would be attached to the regional coaching center of the Kerala Sports Council.
More than just extending initial funding, Margaret who is the president of the club, hopes to raise more funds from Kerala associations in the US. Her husband Thomas Miller is the chairman of the club, brother Giles Francis treasurer and coach Shaji Oommen its secretary.
Born in Thiruvananthapuram, Margaret completed school and college education here, and worked as a lecturer in a college for some years. She was a member of All Saints' badminton and table tennis teams and captained its hockey team. She was also a regular in the Kerala university hockey team. After migrating to the US in 1980, she again fell for the love of football and joined a women's football league ''Prime of Life'' in San Diego in 1992. She has been playing for UC United Team in San Diego.
She said she stumbled upon on the idea of promoting women's football in Kerala during her vacation in June this year when she found that the state lacked even a women's team.
- nriol.com report
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