Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Conburi: At 14 years and 6 months, Momoka Kinoshita is the youngest Japanese player in Thailand, but she is also the only member of the squad to have played every minute in the tournament thus far.
In those 270 minutes, the midfielder has scored twice - including the vital equaliser against DPR Korea – and drawn specific attention from opponents looking to curb her influence.
Kinoshita said her youth, even by this competition’s standards, was not a factor which entered her thoughts.
“My age is not important. I just play my own way,” she said. “It is going well, but I want to contribute more.”
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