Shamila Kohestani

Shamila Kohestani is an Afghani footballer, and the former captain of the Afghanistan women's national football team. She attended boarding school in the United States. In 2007, she scored six goals in the women's team's first tournament. She won the 2006 Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

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Kohestani traveled to the United States in 2004 as part of a football clinic hosted by Afghan Youth Sports Exchange, a program founded by Awista Ayub. In early 2006, she participated in the program's clinic in Kabul.