Diana is a Pakistani star soccer and cricket pool

In celebration of a Lahore cricket team's victory, one of the players does not stop looking at her watch. She has to rush to another stadium to play another match there, but with a football team.

This 20-year-old Pakistani player, Diana, is used to this pace. She has been playing for cricket and football for years, as well as attending university. She is one of the "green girls", a reference to the team that represented Pakistan in a recent international match in India in the T20. "I had the honor to play for the T-20 team," she says, staring at her watch nonstop. "It was a great encouragement that gave me life and energy."

Diana, who plays cricket and football together, grew up in the streets of the Hunza Valley in northern Pakistan, where the highest peaks in the world are rising. The fact that she was a girl did not change anything in her behavior, and did not make her hesitate in the sport of this conservative society in which a girl may not receive the encouragement she needs.

From the street games to the local teams' tournaments, Diana reached the women's cricket team in the state of Glit-Beltian in 2010 and became captain. Two years later, she was chosen to join the World Cup team in 2013 and in 2015 she played for the first time in an international match against Bangladesh.

Diana's promotion of the sport ladder was free of blows and frustrations: "I have passed through times when I did not see any positive future," but her choice within the national cricket team was a turning point.

Diana did not expect to start football in this form. In 2010, while playing cricket in Islamabad, she learned from her friends that the female football team needed players. She was quickly elected to the Pakistan national team in 2014 and played in the South Asian Championship in Bahrain and has since been on the defensive.

Diana Big now has to find this delicate balance between her athletic career and her achievement in health science and sports education. "Things get more complicated," she says. She knows she will have to make a choice one day. "I may have chosen cricket in the end because it is more attractive in Asia," she said.

Cricket is a game that is spreading among females in Pakistan, and private institutions are setting up matches. The poor performance of the T20 male team has transformed popular encouragement into the female team, whose players have become known as girls in green uniforms.