Myanmar national soccer team and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) dream team will play a fund-raising soccer match here 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 Wednesday.
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 250,000 U.S. dollars and 50,000 dollars respectively to the MFF, it added.
The world football governing body, Federation Internationale deFootball Association (FIFA), will also provide 100,000 dollars andthe South Korea Football Association (KFA) 30,000 dollars 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 and19,359 injured according to updated death toll.
Source:Xinhua
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