Girls from India and Pakistan unite to create Guinness World Record for the Longest Non-Stop Football Marathon

Backed by BookASmile, 5 Indian girls from Yuwa India are all set to create history at the Equal Playing Field initiative at the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019

Mumbai. In a first of its kind cross-cultural sporting initiative, five women footballers from India along with a fellow football player from Pakistan will join players from all over the world to attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the longest non-stop marathon football match at Lyon, France.

These five female football coaches from Jharkhand-based NGO Yuwa India, supported by BookMyShow’s charity initiative BookASmile, are currently in France to participate in the ‘Equal Playing Field’ (EPF) initiative at the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019.

The world record for the longest football marathon is currently set at 108 hours and 2 minutes and is held by Heartbeat United FC (UK), in Worthing, UK for match played from May 26^th until May 30^thin 2016.

This new coup will involve 3,000 athletes across all abilities, ages and gender from all over the globe and will take five days of non-stop playing through day and night.

This latest attempt by EPF at the FIFA Women’s World Cup underlies the desire to empower and inspire women in football. The campaigning collective also holds the record for the highest altitude football match, on Kilimanjaro, and the lowest, by the Dead Sea in Jordan.