YANGON (Xinhua) -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) U-16 women's soccer tournament will be held in Yangon, Myanmar in October, local media reported on Tuesday.
The ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) held a meeting, attended by Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) chairman U Zaw Zaw, in Indonesia on Monday and decided the ASEAN U-16 women's soccer tournament to be hosted by Myanmar, the Forever sports journal said.
The AFF meeting made confirmation to hold the tournaments and trainings in 2009 and chose the host countries to feature them, it said, adding that the meeting also decided to hold the ASEAN U-19 men's soccer tournament from Aug. 5 to 15 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Myanmar national women's soccer team, which ranked 3rd in ASEAN, 9th in Asia and 43rd in the world in December 2008, grabbed bronze medal in the 24th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Thailand in December 2007. Myanmar was defeated by Vietnam women's soccer team 2-1 in the semifinals and beat Laos 5-0 in the third-place play off.
Myanmar hosted for the first time the 2007 ASEAN Championship women's soccer tournament, participated by eight national women's soccer teams from Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, at the Thuwunna Youth Training Center here in September 2007 and Myanmar were crowned in the tournament after beating Thailand 5-2 in the penalty shootouts in the final.
Myanmar also triumphed in the first ASEAN Championship tournament in Vietnam in October 2004 by defeating hosts in the final with penalty shootouts.
However, Myanmar lost to Vietnam in the final of the 23rd SEA Games in Manila, the Philippines, in 2005. Enditem
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