thrown out of the house criticised humiliated labelled as stone pelter and shunned by the society 23yearold afshan ashiq has gone through a lot in this young age and all this for following her passion and now she has become the first woman footballer from jammu and kashmir she didnt stop there but went on to create the first womens football team in jammu and kashmir against all odds now she has a bollywood biopic being made on her ct spoke to the youngster who was at kumaraguru college of technology coimbatore for a youth conference how did you fall in love with football i used to play cricket as child and suddenly my college coach asked me to try football and out of nowhere i became passionate about football i was 17 when i started playing football some told me that this is not the age to start and that i should have started much earlier at 6 or 8 but their views didnt bother me i aspired to be a footballer i am a firm believer in hard work if you are dedicated toward the game everything will fall in place thats what happened to me i am looking forward to play for the indian womens football team did you get into any trouble after you decided to pursue football as your career it was very hard for me to convince my family we had huge fights at home and at one point of time my father wanted me to choose between football and home i chose the latter he gave up on me and told me i would not receive any support from the family be it love or money but that didnt bother me by then i was in love with the game i went out of my home and stayed at my uncles place he was my pillar of support after few days my father who was concerned about me asked me to return home i refused to agree as i knew there would be pressure from home to quit football i told him that i would always pick football over home and he disapproves of that so its better to stay away from home to be honest the period when i was not talking to my family was the best time because there was no pressure on me from my family and i could play the game freely now my father supports me and i am happy about it given how hard it was for you to fight against your family and society individually how did you even think of forming a womens team it had been two years since i started playing and i wasnt going for any competitions because i had no one to compete with in my state but i wanted to know where i lacked in my game so that i could work on it i always trained with boys my coach and the association over there asked me to