14 July
IN preparation for the ASE-AN Football Federation (AFF) U-19 Championship and Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-19 Championship, head coach Soe Myat Min of the My-anmar U-18 national football team selected 25 outstanding players to play in the friendly match, plus train in Japan, according to the Myanmar Football Federation.
The 25 players were com-posed of talented youths from the MFF Youth Academy and youth teams from Shan Unit-ed, Yangon United, Ayeyawady United, Magwe FC and South-ern Myanmar FC.
The Myanmar U-18 team will train for ten days at the J-Green Sakai training center in Osaka, Japan from 16 to 25 July.
During the training, My-anmar U-18 team will play friendly matches against lo-cal Japanese youth clubs, said officials from the Myanmar Football Federation.
Team Myanmar will play against Cerezo Osaka U-18 team on 18 July, Osaka Sangyo University team on 21 July and Hannan University team on 24 July.
The U-18 Myanmar foot-ballers will leave for Japan on 15 July.
The Myanmar squad will be led by eight members of the coaching staff, led by head coach Soe Myat Min.—Lynn Thit (Tgi)
