Designed and dedicated to promote the women’s game and to facilitate knowledge exchange, the webinar, which was organised by the Portas Asia Consulting (Portas), was divided into two sections – the Growth of Women’s Football: The European Story as well as the Panel discussion: Growing the game within Asia-Pacific federations.

In this week’s edition of our in-depth women’s football series, GameChangers, we meet the Women’s Super League veteran and Irish international, who sought to encourage a love of football in her students in Thailand and, in the process, rediscovered her own.

In more ways than one, it was a whole new ball game.

One of the best regarded female referees China PR has ever seen, Cui was announced to join the match officials’ team for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup France. Just as she was working against the clock to prepare herself for her second women's football extravaganza - she worked as an assistant referee at Canada 2015 – Cui was urgently taken to hospital at the start of last year after an unexpected heart attack.

Maha, who is also the AFC Women’s Football Committee member, started her football career in the Physical Education Institute in Syria, where like many young girls, faced several obstacles in society.

In this edition of the AFC’s GameChangers series, the face of a talented new generation of Lebanese women discusses the long road from Zgharta to international football, dreams of European stardom and persisting, no matter what.

In the latest edition of the AFC’s GameChangers series – which tells inspiring stories from women’s football in Asia – we meet the 23-year-old whose passion has taken her from northern Pakistan to Paris and Milan; and for whom the game provides a window to so much more.

In the latest edition of GameChangers – which tells great stories from women’s football in Asia – we meet the 19-year-old who overcame tremendous obstacles to secure a history-making transfer and emerge as a potentially transformative figure for Iranian football.