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Article: Braveness helps Myanmar enter AFC Challenge Cup semis: coach
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 6, 2008
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Braveness helps Myanmar enter AFC Challenge Cup semis: coach
YANGON, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- High spirit helped Myanmar secure a
berth at the semifinals of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
Challenge Cup soccer tournament, local weekly First Eleven sports
journal reported Wednesday.
Myanmar national team chief coach Marcos Antonio Falopa was
quoted as saying that braveness of Myanmar footballers played an
important role in the country defeating their second match against
Sri Lanka on last Saturday and reaching at the AFC Challenge Cup
semifinals
Myanmar footballers were not playing good enough in the first
half of the match against Sri Lanka, losing many ball possession, he
admitted.
"I ...