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Grand Royal Challenge Cup soccer tournament to be held in Myanmar
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-27 16:22
YANGON -- Myanmar to hold the 2008 Grand Royal Challenge Cup soccer tournament in Yangon in November as a preparation for the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Championship to be held in Thailand and Indonesia in December, according to the Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) Saturday.

Two soccer teams from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Malaysia and Indonesia, have already confirmed to take part in the third Grand Royal Challenge Cup soccer tournament slated for November 9-15, and the MFF has sent invitation letters to two more teams, Bangladesh and a South Korean club, to vie for the tournament, it said.  

At the 2005 Grand Royal Challenge Cup football tournament held at the Thuwunna Youth Training Center here in November 2005, four teams -- China's U-19, India's U-19, Bangladesh's selection (with an average age between 23 and 25) and host Myanmar's U-23 -- competed at the tournament and the Myanmar U-23 team beat the Bangladesh selected team 2-1 after the extra time in the final and won the trophy.