I won the AFC Women's Asian Cup 16 years ago and my football lives on

“May I join you guys on the field?”, shouted Zhang Tong, a former player on the Chinese national women's football team, to a group of men playing football after work for fun. “Sure!” the amateur footballers shouted back. She was playing right midfield and made some accurate diagonal passes toward her fellow forward players. Few of the men on the pitch, however, realized that this woman playing among them was a member of the winning team that took home the AFC Women's Asian Cup back in 2006.