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Abid Hussain

A ‘very different’ Pakistan? National football team aim to end dire record

Pakistan's Ali Khan Niazi, right, fights for the ball with India's Naorem Mahesh Singh in a South Asian Football Federation Championship match in June [File: AFP]

Islamabad, Pakistan – Last week, Englishman Stephen Constantine was named as the new coach of the Pakistani men’s national football team and tasked with ending a dire run by winning the country’s first-ever World Cup qualification match and, in the process, ending a five-year, 13-match losing streak.

Constantine’s squad arrived in Cambodia in the early hours of Monday for the first leg of a 2026 World Cup first-round qualifier, set to take place on Thursday.

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