Myanmar women team to play friendly match with BFA

Myanmar women team to play friendly match with BFA

Published on Thursday, 02 May 2013 22:53

Myanmar Women Football Team (Photo-EMG)

Bahrain Football Association invited Myanmar national women team to play friendly match with Bahrain national women team in Bahrain this month.

Myanmar women team is preparing to become Asian qualifiers. Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) also accepted to play the match.

"We have received the invitation from Bahrain FA. We will send the women team to have experience. We will go to Bahrain one week Palestine. We have planned to play two matches and train in Bahrain," an official from MFF said.

Asian qualifiers will be held in Palestine from May 21 to 25. Myanmar will meet India in their opening match.

Myanmar team is trained by Kumada Yoshinori from Japan and the team is in training with 30 selected players.

Asian women qualifiers are divided into four groups with four teams in one group. The top team from four groups will qualify to final stage and play with Asian giants like Australia, China, Japan and South Korea.

Source: http://www.news.myanmaronlinecentre.com/2013/05/03/myanmar-women-team-to-play-friendly-match-with-bfa/