Pyari Xaxa
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 18 May 1997 | ||
| Place of birth | Jhartarang, Sundergarh, Odisha, India | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Rising Student Club | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Kunwarmunda | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016– | Rising Student Club | 11 | (14) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2014 | India U19 | 3 | (2) |
| 2015– | India | 8 | (4) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 February 2017 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2 December 2021 | |||
Pyari Xaxa (born 18 May 1997) is an Indian women's international footballer who plays as a forward for the club Rising Students Club and the India national team.
Career[]
Xaxa made her senior international debut in 2015 after playing in the India U19 team.[1] She was awarded the AIFF Emerging Woman Footballer of the Year for the year.[2] She was a part of the team that won gold medal at the 2016 South Asian Games in Shillong.
Club career[]
Xaxa began her football career with the club Kunwarmunda based in her home State of Odisha.[3] In 2016, she was signed by Rising Student to play in the inaugural season of the Indian Women's League. She finished the season with 14 goals, with ten in the preliminary and four in the final round. Her team lost to Eastern Sporting Union in the final.[4]
Honours[]
International[]
Gold (1): 2016
Individual[]
- AIFF Emerging Woman Footballer of the Year: 2015[2]
- Indian Football Fans' Player of the Year 2020–21[5]
References[]
- ^ "A youthful breeze flows in the Indian Women's National Team". All India Football Federation. February 6, 2016. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ^ a b "Eugenson Lyngdoh voted '2015 AIFF Player of the Year'". All India Football Federation. December 20, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ^ "Pyari Xaxa profile". orisports.com. Archived from the original on February 18, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ^ "Eastern Sporting Union win inaugural Indian Women's League". ESPN. espn.in. February 14, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ^ @IndianFootball (July 23, 2021). "Pyari Xaxa" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
External links[]
- Pyari Xaxa at All India Football Federation
- Pyari Xaxa at Global Sports Archive
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- People from Sundergarh district
- India women's international footballers
- Indian women's footballers
- Women's association football forwards
- Footballers from Odisha
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- 21st-century Indian women
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- South Asian Games gold medalists for India
- South Asian Games medalists in football
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