Myanmar-ASEAN cyclone fund-raising soccer match to be held in Myanmar
2/7/2008 16:04
Myanmar national soccer team and the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) dream team will play a fund-raising soccer match in Yangon for
the victims of deadly cyclone Nargis which hit five divisions and states in
Myanmar in early May, state-run local language newspaper The Myanma Alin
reported today.
Chairman of Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) U Zaw Zaw
proposed to hold the fund-raising soccer match in Yangon in October for the
victims of cyclone Nargis at the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) council meeting
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last Sunday, the paper said.
All the ASEAN member
countries attending the meeting have agreed the proposal and it will be approved
later this month, it said.
U Zaw Zaw briefed on the condition of destruction
of football infrastructure by the cyclone Nargis in Myanmar at the AFF meeting
and the Asian Football Confederatin (AFC) and the AFF pledged to provide cash
aid of US$250,000 and US$50,000 respectively to the MFF, it added.
The world
football governing body, Federation Internationale de Football Association
(FIFA), will also provide US$100,000 and the South Korea Football Association
(KFA) US$30,000 cash aid to the MFF to repair football fields and buildings
destroyed by the severe cyclone Nargis, according to the MFF.
Deadly tropical
cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and
states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin on May 2 and 3, of which
Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive
infrastructural damage, killing 84,537 people and leaving 53,836 still missing
and 19,359 injured according to updated death toll.
Xinhua
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