Tashkent, June 27 -- The Nepali national women's team arrived in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan, on Wednesday, four days before their first game of the AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers. And since Day 1, head coach Patrick De Wilde and his staff have been training their players to acclimatise to the conditions in Tashkent.

The weather in Tashkent is not significantly different from that of Kathmandu. The two cities lie approximately 2,000 kilometres apart with a time difference of 45 minutes. While Tashkent's weather was around 30 degrees Celsius on Thursday evening (4 pm local time), Kathmandu's was 28. But the former is less humid with a lower precipitation than the latter.

"This makes breathing difficult," said Dr Alisha Rai...