YANGON (21 Aug 2015) – With less than 24 hours to the big show of the AFF Awards Night 2015, there is an air of excitement permeating the air here in Myanmar’s capital city of Yangon.
The city which has been undergoing tremendous changes to its skyline over the last several years, will add another glimmering milestone to its overall façade when they play hosts to the AFF Awards Night 2015.
The blue-riband event is a biennial awards ceremony as the regional body looks to give due recognition of the achievements of players and officials in the in between years after the hugely popular AFF Championship was held.
And this time round for the second edition of the awards which follows that in 2013 that was held in the coastal city of Kuantan in Pahang, Malaysia, this time round the AFF could not have chosen a better city than Yangon.
That too at a new establishment of the Novotel Yangon Max Hotel – a 400-room immaculately built to modern European standards, complete with a fine dining French restaurant.
“We welcome all delegates to the AFF Awards Night 2015 with open arms,” said the ever gracious Zaw Zaw, the president of the Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) this afternoon.
“I would like to wish all who are here for this event to have a great time in Yangon and look forward to the AFF Awards Night tomorrow with a great sense of celebratory mood.
“Tomorrow will be another milestone in the history of ASEAN football and we should look forward to it with great enthusiasm.”
As officials, delegates and athletes began to trickle into this city of just under six million, the questions on every one’s mind would be on who will take the honours tomorrow.
But that is a closely guarded secret as the Selection Committee has been hard at work scrutinising and sifting through the recommendations to make sure that only the deserving were given the right accolade that they deserve.
