Myanmar to attend SEA junior volleyball tournament
7/11/2008 17:06
Myanmar youth volleyball team will take part in the forthcoming 15th
Southeast Asia (SEA) Junior Volleyball Tournament in Jakarta, Indonesia, next
week as a preparation for the 25th SEA Games in Laos in 2009, according to the
Myanmar Volleyball Federation (MVF) today.
The 13-member team, comprising 10
under-19 youth players, left in Yangon this morning for Jakarta to participate
in the 15th SEA junior volleyball tournament scheduled for Nov. 9-16, Joint
Secretary of the MVF U Nyi Nyi Lwin told Xinhua.
Five youth volleyball teams
-- host Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam from SEA and Sri Lanka from
South Asia -- will appear in the eight-day tournament, he said.
Myanmar will
compete in the 25th SEA Games with a team made up of senior players from
national team and junior players from the youth team as most of the players of
the Myanmar national volleyball team have become aged, he added.
Xinhua
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