Myanmar Football Academy Explained

The Myanmar Football Academy, headed by Myanmar Football President, Zaw Zaw. Myanmar Football Federation has three Academies in Myanmar. There are National Football Academy (Yangon),^[1] Myanmar Football Academy (Mandalay) and Ayeyarwady Football Academy (Pathein).^[2]

National Football Academy (Yangon)

FIFA president Gianni Infantino officially declared open Myanmar’s National Football Academy on 17 February 2017.^[3]

Founded	29 December 2015
Location	Waizayantar Road, Thingangyan Township, near by MFF Office.
Total Area	6.55 Acres
Building Area	Length - 245 ft, width - 49 ft
Contribution from FIFA	500,000 USD
Contribution from MFF	284,794 USD
Total Project Cost	2,784,794 USD

Myanmar Football Academy (Mandalay)

2011 March 15, FIFA President, Sepp Blatter opens Myanmar Football Academy (Mandalay).^[4]

Founded	4 June 2006
Location	73rd Road, Chanmyathazi Township, near by Mandalarthiri Stadium, Mandalay
Building Type	2 Storey Reinforced Concrete Building
Building Area	Length - 245 ft, width - 49 ft
Goal Project from FIFA	USD 400,000
FIFA မွ Goal Project investment	USD 400,000
Yearly Contribution from FAP for 2005	USD 250,000
Yearly Contribution from FAP for 2006	USD 250,000
Investment from MFF	USD 100,000
Total Project Cost	USD 1,000,000

Ayeyawady Football Academy (Pathein)

US Dollars Two hundred and fifty thousand was donated by Asian Football Confederation and the remaining US Dollars five hundred thousand was donated by Ayeyawady Foundation for a total cost of US Dollars seven hundred and fifty thousand. Land is donated by Government.^[5]

Founded	4 June 2006
Location	Pathein Township, Ayeyawady Region
Building Type	3 Storey Reinforced Concrete Building
Building Area	12052 sq-ft (1120 sq-m)
Overall Length	137 ft (41.75m)
Overall width	44 ft (13.41m)
Total Project Cost	USD 750,000

Academy team

Current management

Position	Name	Nationality
Academy Director:	Zaw Zaw	Myanmar
Team Leader:	Moe Wai Aung	Myanmar
Head of Coaching/U18 Manager:	Nyi Nyi Latt	Myanmar
Academy Operations Manager:	Min Thu	Myanmar
Goalkeeping Coach:	Mya Ko Min	Myanmar

Current Academy squad

Academy graduates

Now playing elsewhere

• Aung Thu, now at BEC Tero, has played for Myanmar^[6]
• Kyaw Min Oo, now at Yangon United, has played for Myanmar
• Sann Satt Naing, now at Yangon United, has played for Myanmar
• Phone Thit Sar Min, now at Shan United, has played for Myanmar U-20
• Aung Wanna Soe, now at Yadanarbon, has played for Myanmar U-20^[7]
• Win Naing Tun, now at Yadanarbon, has played for Myanmar U-23^[8]
• Pyae Sone Naing, now at Yadanarbon, has played for Myanmar U-23^[9]
• Myat Kaung Khant, now at Yadanarbon, has played for Myanmar U-23^[10]
• Hein Htet Aung, now at Hanthawaddy United FC, has played for Myanmar U-23

External links

• Academy page at Yangon.
• Mandalay Academy at Mandalay.
• Academy page at Pathein.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mr.Infantino opens Academy. en. Asean Football.
2. Web site: Soccer School: Manchester United Trained Myanmar Young Footballers . en. myanmarinternationaltv.com.
3. Web site: Myanmar National Football Academy (Yangon). en. MFF.
4. Web site: Myanmar Football Academy (Mandalay). en. MFF.
5. Web site: Ayeyawady Football Academy (Pathein) . en. MFF.
6. Web site: ကစားသမားဘ၀ တိုးတက်စေရန် ပြည်ပကလပ်သို့ ပြောင်းရွှေ့ခြင်း ဖြစ်သည်ဟု အောင်သူ ပြောကြား. News-eleven. 2017.
7. Web site: လူငယ်ကစားသမားအောင်ဝဏ္ဏစိုး အား ရတနာပုံ အသင်းခေါ်ယူ. Yadanarbon. 2017.
8. Web site: ၁ ... ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်း ပြည့်စုံနိုင် နှင့် မြတ်ကောင်းခန့် တို့အား ရတနာပုံ အသင်းတရားဝင် ခေါ်ယူခဲ့ပြီဖြစ်. Yadanarbon. 2017.
9. Web site: ၂ ... ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်း ပြည့်စုံနိုင် နှင့် မြတ်ကောင်းခန့် တို့အား ရတနာပုံ အသင်းတရားဝင် ခေါ်ယူခဲ့ပြီဖြစ်. Yadanarbon. 2017.
10. Web site: ၃ ... ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်း ပြည့်စုံနိုင် နှင့် မြတ်ကောင်းခန့် တို့အား ရတနာပုံ အသင်းတရားဝင် ခေါ်ယူခဲ့ပြီဖြစ်. Yadanarbon. 2017.