Manchester City will hope to continue their perfect start to the Premier League season when they host Fulham at the Etihad this afternoon.
14.08.2023 - 09:37 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A football-mad teenager from Manchester is preparing to represent her country for the first time at a major sporting event – just five years after losing part of her sight.
Ayman Hafiz, 19, has been selected for England women’s blind football team which is competing at the 2023 International Blind Sport Federation (IBSA) World Games at the University of Birmingham between Monday, August 14 and Monday, August 21.
The IBSA World Games – which is sponsored by RNIB - is arriving in the UK for the first time and will see around 1250 athletes from 70 countries competing across 10 sports, making it the world’s largest sporting event for blind and partially sighted athletes.
The World Games will signal Ayman’s competitive debut at international level, after training with Manchester City’s visually impaired team since she was 14 years old when she was diagnosed with Oguchi disease – a rare visual impairment that impacts vision in low and brightly lit environments.
This means that Ayman has reduced visual field and is unable to see smaller details, and cannot see in the dark.
Recalling the moment she first noticed that something was wrong with her sight, Ayman said: “I ignored it for a few months, as I just thought I needed glasses.
“One day though I tripped over a kerb because I couldn’t distinguish between a slope and a kerb – and that’s when I realised something might be wrong.
“At the start I wasn’t very accepting of it because I didn’t know what to expect with my eye condition, and I still don’t know what to expect because some doctors have said that my eye condition means that my eye sight might improve, or could continue to gradually decrease.
"So that’s probably the hardest thing to come to terms with, but overcoming the
Manchester City will hope to continue their perfect start to the Premier League season when they host Fulham at the Etihad this afternoon.
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