ACCORDING to the Myanmar Football Federation (MFF), basic football education will be intro­duced in basic education schools across Myanmar starting from the 2025 academic year as part of FIFA’s initiative.

These basic football training sessions will be launched in Myanmar under FI­FA’s “Football For Schools” programme in 2025. The initiative is set to expand annually, reaching an increasing number of basic education schools across the country.

U Zaw Min Htaik, Director of Media and Communications at the Myanmar Football Federation, stated, “This pro­gramme will be implemented through a collaboration between FIFA, the My­anmar Football Federation, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs. Football training appli­cations containing fundamental coaching techniques will be distributed to schools, and teachers will incorporate them into physical education classes.”

As part of the “Football For Schools” project, FIFA will provide over 40,000 Adi­das footballs to the Myanmar Football Federation. These footballs will be dis­tributed to basic education schools partic­ipating in the programme. — ASH/ KNN