Palestine's U17 national football team has camped in K. Guraidhoo in preparation for the AFC Asian Cup U17 qualifiers.
The training camp will be held for about 10 days, with the Palestine team coming to Maldives yesterday afternoon. They went to Guraidhoo in the evening and took part in the training camp.
The main sessions took place at Guraidhoo's football stadium. The team's accommodation, food and local transportation costs will be funded by the Football Association of Maldives (FAM), the Maldivian government and Guraidhoo Council.
The island council held an activity at the harbor to welcome the team to Guraidhoo.
Maldives hosted a training camp for the team in preparation for the AFC Asian Cup U17 qualifiers last year as well. They played two friendly matches against Maldives' U17 team last year.
This time, the Maldives U17 team will be playing against the Palestine team in training matches, which will be held at the national football stadium in Male'.
The qualifying matches for the group Palestine is in will take place from 8th November to 20th November at India. The Palestine team will be going to India from Maldives on 5th November.
In addition to Palestine and India, Malaysia, Singapore and Guam are in the group.
Maldives is also preparing for the AFC Asian Cup U17 qualifiers.
The qualifier matches in the group Maldives is in will be played in Thailand. The group includes Maldives, Thailand, Iraq, Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei.
