Vietnam beat Myanmar to take the women’s football Asian Football Federation Championships for the second time on September 22, leaving the runners up reflecting on their second successive final defeat.
Myanmar will host the next AFF Suzuki Cup 2012 qualifying games from October 5 to 13. The qualifying matches will be between Myanmar, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Brunei and Laos at the Youth Training Centre, Yangon.
The former Liverpool and England player John Barnes added star power to a youth football training clinic last week, and admitted he was impressed with what he saw.
An auto rally aimed at strengthening cooperation and understanding between China and ASEAN countries plans to include Myanmar.
A group of exhausted local basketball players, standing with hands on knees at centre court found enough energy to applaud Rich Cho’s Myanmar language greeting of mingalabar.
The opening ceremony of the sixth China-ASEAN International Touring Assembly (CAITA) was held in Nanning, China on August 17.
Myanmar’s international profile in sports continues to rise as Yangon plays host to the country’s first international marathon in decades in January 2013.
Last time British kickboxer Sean Bardoe stepped into the ring in a competitive bout he emerged with a draw against his older and lighter opponent at a celebration of Kayin New Year in Yangon.
Myanmar is aiming for a total of 100 gold medals when it hosts the 27th SEA Games in 2013, according to comments by the minister for sports.
The Myanmar Olympic Committee (MOC) named SAIL Marketing & Communications its official advertising and sponsorship organisers for the 27th SEA Games in 2013 in a press conference at Sedona Hotel on July 7.
