Kathmandu, June 6 -- The All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) on Thursday appointed Belgian national Patrick De Wilde as the new head coach of the Nepali women's national football team.

Wilde has over 20 years of experience with successes in national and international football. He also has a Bachelor's in Sports Education and Pedagogy.

He began his coaching career in 1999 in the Belgian club competition. His first work abroad was in Ukraine in 2007 when he coached FC Metalurh Donetsk, a club that went bankrupt in 2015.

Ukraine opened the path to other parts of the world for Wilde. While he returned to Belgium for a season in 2008/09 to coach K.S.K. Beveren, he was in China helping Tianjin Songjiang get promoted to the second division ...