早期に start to WCup qualifying for 女性 Asian サッカー 味方するs
Asian サッカー lesser-lights such as Mongolia and Pakistan are just 90 minutes away from a rare taste of the big time that could even 含む a match against the continent's most famous player, Son Heung-min.
いっそう少なく than 12 months after the 2018 World Cup final, the 12 weakest teams in Asia this week took the first step along the road to the 2022 tournament to be held in Qatar. The six that 現れる as 勝利者s after next Tuesday's second 脚s will 進歩 to the group 行う／開催する／段階 and 可能性のある match-ups with powerhouses such as Son's South Korea, Japan and Australia.
The prospect of Son, Asia's biggest 指名する who last week appeared in the UEFA 支持する／優勝者s League final with Tottenham Hotspur (a 2-0 loss to Liverpool), taking the field against Pakistan 控訴，上告s very much to captain Zesh Rehman.
The British-born defender has past experience of 直面するing the best 攻撃者s in the league during a （一定の）期間 in the English 首相 League with Fulham, but a 2-0 loss to Cambodia on Thursday in Phnom Penh means that there is much to do in the return game for Pakistan.
"It would be 抱擁する for the whole country and it would be a 重要な 業績／成就 considering the 欠如（する） of international （危険などに）さらす in 最近の years," Rehman told The Associated 圧力（をかける）.
Just to get the sport in the headlines for the 権利 推論する／理由s would be a step 今後 in a country with a サッカー scene that has been 重荷（を負わせる）d by politics, 汚職 and 無資格／無能力 for years.
Tottenham midfielder Son Heung-min, 権利, duels for the ball with Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold during the 支持する／優勝者s League final サッカー match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid, Saturday, June 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
So bad has it become that Pakistan, a country with a 全住民 of around 200 million, is 階級d 200th in the world by FIFA, below teams such as Bhutan, Mongolia and Brunei.
"The 最高位の is too low," Rehman 認める. "I believe however with this coaching staff, 正規の／正選手 games and a mixture of 地元の and foreign-based players that the 最高位の will no 疑問 改善する."
To take on South Korea and Son would be exciting but more important is the prospect of eight 保証（人）d group games in the next 行う／開催する／段階.
Pakistan needs as much サッカー as possible. With 資格 for the 2022 World Cup 存在 連合させるd with 資格 for the 2023 Asian Cup, 早期に 排除／予選 can be a major blow for teams and lead to long periods without 競争の激しい 活動／戦闘.
"We have not has so many games In the last few years 予定 to some political factors that are beyond the players 支配（する）／統制する, so we just 焦点（を合わせる） on the games as and when they are scheduled for us to play," said Rehman.
Mongolia is also looking to give サッカー a 上げる in a country where it is far from 存在 the No. 1 sport, lagging behind volleyball, basketball, 弓術，射手隊, 格闘するing and others. 保存するing its 2-0 advantage from the first 脚 in Brunei is 決定的な.
"The biggest challenge is to make football really popular," Hatem Souissi, the technical director of the Mongolian 連合, told the Asian Football 連合. "If we can qualify for the next 一連の会議、交渉／完成する then we will try to bring 最高の，を越す teams so that the （人が）群がる can come and see them.
"We need to make the sport popular and bring big 指名するs. And we will find that hard if we don't qualify for the next 一連の会議、交渉／完成する."
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Tottenham's Son Heung-min, 中心, 持つ／拘留するs his 長，率いる after 行方不明の a chance to 得点する／非難する／２０ past Liverpool's goalkeeper Alisson, left, during the 支持する／優勝者s Leag ue final サッカー match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid, Saturday, June 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Tottenham midfielder Son Heung-min 反応するs after 行方不明の a chance to 得点する／非難する／２０ during the 支持する／優勝者s League final サッカー match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid, Saturday, June 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
Tottenham's Son Heung-min walks in dejection end of the 支持する／優勝者s League final サッカー match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid, Sunday, June 2, 2019. Liverpool 2-0. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
