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Talking about the recent boost women's football has received in India, the former West Ham United Women goalkeeper Aditi Chauhan encouraged the idea of more players plying their trade abroad.

Even though Aditi Chauhan has gone from being a junior basketball player to becoming the first Indian to represent a Premier League club to captaining India, her drive to achieve more knows no bounds. Keeping the next AFC Women’s Asian Cup in her eyesight, she indicated that a sizeable burden of responsibility now rests on her shoulders.

On Friday, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) granted the All India Football Federation (AIFF) the rights to host the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup. India, who last played in the competition in 2003, have previously hosted the quadrennial tournament in 1979 in which the team finished runners-up.

Although such a result isn’t in the expectations this time around, the 27-year-old goalkeeper believes that the AFC Women’s Asian Cup is a ‘great opportunity’.