Shehneela Ahmed seeking election on to the FA Council Committee

Shehneela Ahmed

Shehneela Ahmed could be making history by becoming the first Asian female to be elected on to the FA Council Committee.

Rochdale born Shehneela will be putting herself forward in the next few days, with the backing and full support from Khalid Mahmood MP, who says it is time there was a voice for the Asian communities across the UK on the FA's Council Committee.

Shehneela will now be talking to community football clubs, councillors and MPs.

The FA has recognised and is making strides to tackle the lack of British Asian talent, taking a series of forums around the country to speak to members of the Asian community trying to discover why there are not more Asians involved in the professional game.

The FA recently stated that the key to getting more young Asian footballers involved in the game was to get more Asian coaches involved and thus giving these young lads people to look up to, role models as such, who are seriously lacking in British football at the moment.

Shehneela said: "It comes down to educating and mentoring the key decision makers, the coaches, the scouts and the people who do not have an extensive knowledge of the Asian community. Once these kinds of things start working together we should start to see a rise in participation."

Shehneela is a football agent - the first female Asian Muslim football agent in Britain.

She recently won the Asian Woman of the Year 2014 award and has been honoured by the British Pakistani Professionals Council for her achievement as the world’s first Asian female football agent for the English FA.