Manisha Naik

Manisha Naik (born 1 April 2003) is an Indian professional footballer from Odisha, who plays as a forward for the Indian Women's League club Nita and the India national football team. She has also played for Sports Odisha and Odisha state in the domestic competitions.

Early life Naik is from Keonjhar, Odisha. She learnt her basics at the Sports Hostel, Bhubaneswar. One of her first coaches were Mamata Sawant and Geetanjali Khuntia. She is employed with Odisha Police. She now trains under Crispin Chettri.

Career

Domestic Naik started as a sub-junior player for Odisha which reached the semifinals of the sub-junior Girls National Football Championship played at Imphal, Manipur in October 2017. She played the sub Junior Nationals again at home in Cuttack and scored 10 goals as part of the Odisha team in July 2018.

She was part of the under 17 Indian women’s team that won the two FIFA International Friendlies against Romania U-17 team at Turkey in February 2020.

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