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Vietnamese player to join U18 regional team in int’l friendly match

Nguyen Thanh Khoi will represent Vietnam in the U18 all-star Southeast Asian team, ASIAN ELEVEN, which will play an U18 all-star team of Japan’s Tohoku region, said the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam on June 11.
Vietnamese player to join U18 regional team in int’l friendly match ảnh 1Nguyen Thanh Khoi of Hoang Anh Gia Lai U19 team (Photo: baogialai.com.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) –Nguyen Thanh Khoi will represent Vietnam in the U18 all-star Southeast Asianteam, ASIAN ELEVEN, which will play an U18 all-star team of Japan’s Tohokuregion, said the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam onJune 11. 

Khoi joined the HoangAnh Gia Lai (HAGL) - JMG football academy in 2013 when he was 12. He was the captainof the HAGL U19 squad competing at the 2019 National U19 Football Championshipand a member of Vietnam’s U18 team.

A total of 21 playersfrom U18 teams of 11 Southeast Asian nations will join in ASIAN ELEVEN led byJapanese head coach Takuma Koga.

The internationalfriendly football match JapaFunCup will take place on June 22 in Japan’sFukushima prefecture.

The JapaFunCup will beco-organised by the Japan Foundation Asia Centre and the Japan FootballAssociation. It is part of the "Asiain Resonance 2019", a series of events introducing its various culturalexchange programmes between Japan and Southeast Asia.

Started in 2014, thefootball exchange project ASIAN ELEVEN aims to foster talents in Japan andSoutheast Asia, promoting mutual understanding between the countries throughfootball.

The project has sent 166Japanese coaches to Southeast Asia to train more than 3,000 young footballersin the region.-VNA
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