Nepali players getting acclimatised to Tashkent’s heat before crucial games

The Uzbekistani capital isn’t much hotter than Kathmandu but the girls still need to adapt to the dry and draining heat.

The Nepali national women’s team arrived in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan, on Wednesday, four days before their first game of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup qualifiers. And since Day 1, head coach Patrick De Wilde and his staff have been training their players to acclimatise to the conditions in Tashkent.