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SADDLER MAZ’S AFGHAN DREAM

By Charlie Peat

KEEN TO IMPRESS: Walsall’s Maz Kouhyar
PICTURE: Action Images

AFGHANISTAN may have played just one competitive game in their own country since 1977, but Walsall’s Maz Kouhyar still dreams of leading the Lions of Khurasan out on their own turf.
The 20-year-old midfielder was forced to flee the country with his mother, Latisa, and father, Karin, when he was just two years old, settling in the Midlands.
Kouhyar has been at Walsall since 2013 and three years later received his first call-up for Afghanistan, drafted into the squad for a friendly against Malaysia.
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