Monday, August 8, 2011

Tiger street Football held in Can Tho & Da Nang

Tiger street festival to run wild in southern VN cities

August 7, 2011 about News, Sports

LookAtVietnam - The VND400 million (US$19,000) fourth leg of the Tiger Street Football tournament will be held in the southern cities of Can Tho and Da Nang next week.

The first qualifying round of this international football festival will be held in Can Tho city on Monday. It will draw the participation of around 100 children’s football teams from the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta River.
The top four teams in Can Tho will play friendly matches against Street Legends from the Netherlands and Boom Boom FC from Australia on Wednesday for the $4,800 bonus.
The second qualifying round will be held in the central coastal city of Da Nang on August 17-18. The best 32 teams will then play in the final in Da Nang on August 20-21. The winner will represent Viet Nam at the international finale in Malaysia in September.
Boom Boom FC and Street Legends will be in Viet Nam tomorrow in preparation for the event.
Boom Boom FC team are led by overseas Vietnamese Cao Anh Tuan. The five-member Street Legends team were set up by a former player of the Dutch national football team, Edgar Davids, five years ago.
Edgar often takes the team to France, Britain and African countries such as Senegal, Kenya and Ghana for friendly games.
The first and second leg of the Tiger event were played in Singapore and Bangkok, Thailand in April and May, respectively, before the third was held in Guangzhou, China last month.
The adrenaline-filled international grand finale in Kuala Lumpur will see the top team from each local leg fight it out to be the Tiger Street Football Champion and win the coveted $30,000 top prize.
Last month, Vietnamese representative Thai Son Bac won a silver medal in the third leg of the Tiger Street Football tournament in China.
The team lost to the Netherlands’ Street Legend by a goal during extra time in the final.
Source: VNS

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