Ittipolchana Kaewsawad and Preechayan Piyachatiwongs, 12 year old football enthusiasts from Bangkok, have been selected as Thailand’s representatives at the global Football For Friendship (F4F) social programme. The F4F programme, supported by Gazprom and FIFA aims at developing youth football and a healthy lifestyle. Thailand joins the programme for the first time and will participate alongside 210 other countries and regions.
Ittipolchana will join young footballers from around the world in Moscow in June 2018. The children will be part of 32 international teams and play against each other in the Gazprom Football For Friendship international championship. The friendly tournament aims to bring children together from around the world and celebrate the unifying spirit of football.
Preechayan will act as the young journalist and report on all the local and global activities of the F4F programme as part of the international children’s press center. He will also spread awareness on the Nine Values (friendship, equality, fairness, health, peace, devotion, victory, traditions and honour) of the F4F programme.
The sixth season of the programme will conclude with a visit by the participating children to the opening ceremony and the first match of the FIFA World Cup 2018.
Speaking on the selection of the young ambassadors by the Football Association of Thailand, International Relations Officer Parkpoom Potivetgul said, “This is a wonderful opportunity for Ittipolchana and Preechayan to build ties of friendship among children from around the world through the beautiful game of football. We wish our young ambassadors all the best and look forward to their contribution in promoting the key values of the programme, in Russia, as well as in Thailand.”
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