Mariyammal Balamurugan
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 14 April 2003 | ||
| Place of birth | Salem, Tamil Nadu, India | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Kickstart | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Sethu | |||
| 2022–2023 | Kickstart | ||
| 2023–2024 | East Bengal | ||
| 2024– | Kickstart | ||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2020 | India U17 | ||
| 2018–2021 | India U20 | ||
| 2021– | India | 3 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 September 2023 | |||
Mariyammal Balamurugan (born 14 April 2003) is an Indian professional footballer from Tamil Nadu, who plays as a midfielder for Kickstart in the Indian Women's League and the India women's national football team. She has also played for Sethu FC and East Bengal.
Early life
[edit]Mariyammal hails from Salem district, Tamil Nadu and hails from a family of farmers.[1][2] She started playing football at a young age and was scouted from the 2018 Khelo Indian Games.[3][4]
Career
[edit]Mariyammal has represented India in the U16 and U19 AFC qualifiers. She made her senior international debut in the 2021 International Women's Football Tournament of Manaus against Brazil. [3] In January 2022, she was named in the Indian team to play AFC Women's Asian Cup.[5]
Honours
[edit]Kickstart
- Karnataka Women's League: 2023–24
References
[edit]- ^ "Mariyammal Balamurugan". the-aiff.com. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ^ "Meet Tamil Nadu's belles of the ball". The Times of India. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ a b Bontra, Soumya (20 January 2022). "Meet the 23 players who can create history for Indian football". thebridge.in. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- ^ "These TN women footballers dribble past challenges and make it to the national team". The Times of India. 9 March 2022. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- ^ "Hosts India name 23-member squad for AFC Women's Asian Cup, recovering Bala Devi misses out". English.Mathrubhumi. 11 January 2022. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
External links
[edit]- Mariyammal Balamurugan
- Mariyammal Balamurugan at Global Sports Archive
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Categories:
- 2003 births
- Living people
- Indian women's footballers
- People from Salem district
- Sportswomen from Tamil Nadu
- Footballers from Tamil Nadu
- India women's international footballers
- India women's youth international footballers
- Women's association football midfielders
- Indian Women's League players
- Sethu FC players
- Kickstart FC players
- East Bengal FC Women players