Football: U14 squad leave for Tokyo
Their tour opener will be against the Japan Football Association Academy team.
KARACHI:
The 16-member Pakistan under-14 football team leaves for Tokyo today to take part in three matches. Their tour opener will be against the Japan Football Association (JFA) Academy team on October 9. Meanwhile, the other two matches will be played against Sri Lanka and Maldives on the following two days. The tournament is a part of Kizua (Bond) Project Japan U-14 Football Exchange Programme to support disaster affected areas and has teams from India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who are in group A. The teams will be competing in two groups from which the top two sides will play the final on October 19.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 7th, 2012.
The 16-member Pakistan under-14 football team leaves for Tokyo today to take part in three matches. Their tour opener will be against the Japan Football Association (JFA) Academy team on October 9. Meanwhile, the other two matches will be played against Sri Lanka and Maldives on the following two days. The tournament is a part of Kizua (Bond) Project Japan U-14 Football Exchange Programme to support disaster affected areas and has teams from India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who are in group A. The teams will be competing in two groups from which the top two sides will play the final on October 19.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 7th, 2012.