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| During a 'Heart-full' session in Kuala Lumpur |
KUALA LUMPUR: Asian club champions Urawa Red Diamond’s South-East Asian leg of ‘Heart-full Soccer’ received a tremendous response with hundreds of children attending the football clinic in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur .
Two sessions of ‘Heart-full Soccer’, whose objective is to create a grassroots international exchange in Asia and teach children the important of fair play and team work, were held in the capitals of Indonesia and Malaysia, with a group of 180 children each taking part in both workshops which saw them playing and learning alongside nine coaches.
The Urawa programme started three years ago and is generally held in those countries where the club team is likely to play. The clinics in 2007 in Thailand , China , Indonesia and Korea Republic attracted around 38,000 players last year.
“A good player can never be an international player if he doesn’t have communication skills,” Heart-full’s chief Hiroshi Ochiai told the local coaches who attended the session.
South-East Asia was Heart-full’s second stop this year after a similar session in the UAE last month.
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