Football for All in Vietnam (FFAV) is sending four young amateur footballers to Russia to participate in FIFA’s Football for Hope Festival 2018.
Ha Danh Du, one of the four members of the Vietnamese team participating in FIFA’s Football for Hope Festival 2018 in Russia, talks to an audience before departure. (Photo: VNA)
Thua Thien-Hue, (VNS/VNA) - Football for All in Vietnam (FFAV) issending four young amateur footballers to Russia to participate in FIFA’sFootball for Hope Festival 2018.
The festival, which will take place from June 25 to July 5 in Moscow, is anofficial FIFA event that will be held on the sidelines of the ongoing WorldCup. The Vietnamese team of four will take part in the event along with 47teams from other countries.
The team is composed of two girls and two boys from the Xuan Phu Patronage andVocational Centre, a local orphanage in central province of Thua Thien- Hue.
Ha Danh Du, a member of the Vietnamese team, said participating in the festivalis a great chance for him to show off his football skills and learn from otherparticipants. It is a dream that comes true for a disadvantaged child like him,he said.
Du and teammates Doan Thi Huong, Le Thi Ngoc Anh, and Truong Dinh Hoang werehoused at the orphanage after their parents passed away due to diseases oraccidents, and their families could not manage to feed them anymore.
The four members of the Vietnamese team and other children in the orphanage hadregular football practice sessions last year thanks to a playground built bythe FFAV in the facility. The FFAV said the four were chosen not based on theirexcellence in football, but on their attendance in regular practice sessions.
The FFAV, a project run by the Football Association of Norway, began itsoperations in Vietnam in 2003. It is headquartered in Thua Thien- Hue and worksmainly to promote community football, focusing on rural children.-VNS/VNA
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Ha Danh Du, one of the four members of the Vietnamese team participating in FIFA’s Football for Hope Festival 2018 in Russia, talks to an audience before departure. (Photo: VNA)