The Afghanistan National Badminton Federation has once again elected Miss Mastoora Arezoo as their President Afghanistan for the next four years.
Arezoo is a young Afghan athlete who has been presiding over Afghanistan National Badminton Federation during the past two years.
At a general assembly of Afghanistan National Badminton Federation in December last year, Arezoo was re-elected as the Federation’s President where she will continue to establish and maintain strong and influential relations with BWF and other national and international organizations as part of her main responsibilities.
Arezoo was appointed as head of Afghanistan National Badminton Federation by the former National Olympics chief Zahir Aghbar earlier in January last year.
She has been in the Afghanistan Olympic Committee for 10 years and started out as a volleyball player in the country’s national team, which she pursued for almost five years.
Her talent in the sport made her the team manager for the national volleyball team. She also was in charge of the country’s national tae-kwon-do team for almost two years.
However, Mastoora only played two sports professionally – volleyball and badminton. She had been interested in sports since a small girl and her father always encouraged her to push herself and her physical ability to the limits.
The National Badminton Federation was formed initially formed in 1974 under the Afghanistan National Olympic Committee. However, the Badminton sport did not have any major development and achievements due to civil war in the country and remained almost non-functional for almost 14 years.
The Afghanistan National Badminton Federation resumed operations in 2002, almost a year after the fall of the Taliban regime.
