In the latest edition of GameChangers – which tells great stories from women’s football in Asia – we meet the 19-year-old who overcame tremendous obstacles to secure a history-making transfer and emerge as a potentially transformative figure for Iranian football.

As we build up towards the AFC Asian Cup China 2023, the-AFC.com continues the AFC Asian Cup Greatest Goals Bracket Challenge with the Round of 16.

Last week we presented the candidates for the 2019 edition's best goalkeeper, and now we shine the spotlight on the players who will make up the backline.

So, here are the 14 players in contention for the four places in defence. Review the nominees and then choose your favourite defenders for this all-star XI in the respective polls.

Looking back at the tournaments from 2010 to 2019, we've selected 20 of the best goals scored in Asia's biggest club competition and now ask you to tell us your favourite, which will be announced ahead of the AFC Champions League's resumption next month.

Splitting them into two semi-finals with 10 goals apiece, our first offering features stunning solo efforts, thunderbolts from distance and much more, so enjoy the trip down memory lane and cast your vote at the bottom of the article. The top five highest rated will progress to September's finale!

Asian football history was made in 2019 when VAR made its debut from the Quarter-final stage of the AFC Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates before the system was successfully implemented across all 32 matches at the AFC U23 Championship Thailand 2020 in January.

The Scot has been at the helm on an interim basis since Carlos Perez Salvachua’s departure in June and led Melbourne through the final five games of the A-League season and has now been confirmed as head coach on a full-time basis.

Held in a centralised format in Yunnan Province in the nation’s south, all 10 teams were in action as top level women’s football returned to China PR for the first time in 2020, with matches preceded by players and officials observing a silent tribute for victims of the COVID-19 coronavirus.