Malaysia wins China-ASEAN football match

The final match of the 2015 China-ASEAN International Teenager Football Invitational Tournament kicked off in Dongxing – a county-level city of Fangchenggang in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region – on March 11.

The Malaysian U-16 team won the invitational tournament championship by beating Vietnam 2:0. Myanmar came third and China ranked fourth in the tournament.

The semifinals between the U-16 teams of China and Myanmar [Photo provided by Chen Yicai/fcgsnews.com]

The U-16 teams of Malaysia and Vietnam fight for the champion of the 2015 China-ASEAN International Teenager Football Invitational Tournament on March 11. [Photo provided by Chen Yicai/fcgsnews.com]

At 13:00 that day, the semifinals between China and Myanmar started. The team of Myanmar gained a free kick at the sixth minute of the first half and refreshed the score. It kept 1:0 until the end of the match with Myanmar winning the game.

The final between Vietnam and Malaysia kicked off at 15:30, with the score remaining 0:0 at half time. But Malaysia broke the deadlock after 54 minutes in the second half, and later added another goal to end the match 2:0.

By Feng Lu and edited by Jake Hooson