Lebanon won the West Asian Women’s Championship for the second time in a row by beating Syria 5-1 in yesterday afternoon’s match at the President Fouad Chehab Stadium in Jounieh. The match saw a remarkable and complete superiority for Lebanon, where Amina Karima scored the first goal in the 43rd minute, and Christy Maalouf added the second goal at 45 + 3 after a long-range shot that inhabited the Syrian goal. With the start of the second half, the young Lebanese scored the third goal with Heba Alloush, which created confusion, in light of the incomplete lines of the Syrian team on the field, as the match stopped for about 7 minutes. Jordanian wisdom, Israa Al Mubaidin, returned to resume playing, while the Lebanese team awarded a goal to their Syrian counterpart of great sportsmanship, through the life of Diop. Amina Karima added the fourth goal in the 60th minute with a powerful shot at the net, and then Lebanon finished their streak with a fifth through Evelina Haddad in the 83rd minute.
For their part, the Jordanian women’s team took third place in the tournament by beating Lebanon’s B team, 2-1, in the match that took place on the same stadium to determine third and fourth places. The match saw rapid superiority for young Jordanian women as Maya Owaisat scored the first goal in the second minute and Sarah Al-Tamizi added the second goal in the 45 + 2 minute. At the start of the second half, the Lebanese youth teams scored the goal to narrow the difference with Cecil Iskandar in the 53rd minute, after a free kick opened the way and kicked brilliantly into the net. The Lebanese national team almost equaled the numbers, were it not for the crossbar that prevented them from scoring a great goal from afar, precisely in the 80 ‘, in the end the president of the Lebanese Football Association, the engineer Hashem Haidar, delivered the championship cup to the Lebanese team.
