Ooredoo Announces Official Partnership with Myanmar Football Federation
At the Signing Ceremony, Ooredoo Wishes Success to Myanmar National Football Teams at the 27th SEA Games
Yangon, Myanmar
Ooredoo today announced it will become the official partner of the Myanmar Football Federation (MFF).
The sponsorship includes all teams from the National Men’s and Women’s teams, to the National Youth teams. Ooredoo will enhance this with a full grassroots programme developing talented young footballers into the stars of the future.
This sponsorship is timely, as all the Myanmar National Football teams are ready to participate in the 27th SEA Games.
Upon announcing this sponsorship, Ross Cormack, CEO of Ooredoo Myanmar, said: “We are proud to show our support towards the Myanmar Football Federation and Ooredoo is committed towards building sports and sportsmanship across the country. Football brings the entire nation together from all walks of life – we believe we have found a great partnership with the MFF. Through our discussions with the MFF we plan on working together to develop communities which will keep us both connected to football fans in Myanmar. We share similar values, so our partnership will work really well for both of us.”
Ooredoo has also announced recently its sponsorship of Paris Saint-Germain. A major focus of the agreement will be the development of youth and community support, as Ooredoo and Paris Saint-Germain will launch a community coaching programme across Ooredoo’s footprint in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia, which will include football clinics for young people. The coaching clinics will be designed to create life opportunities for young people and all football teams under Myanmar Football Federation. Ooredoo and Paris Saint-Germain will bring qualified coaches and training programmes to Myanmar with a focus on outreach to underserved communities and supporting youth in these communities.
Sponsoring Myanmar Football Federation continues Ooredoo’s long-standing tradition of providing support for a wide variety of international, national, and grassroots sporting activities.
Ross Cormack added: “We are committed to sponsoring the things that people in Myanmar care about most, both nationally and regionally, that can really make a difference in their everyday lives. Recently, we have proudly announced our official partnership of Myanmar Chinelone Federation and Special Olympics Myanmar. This enables us to reach our audiences quickly and meaningfully and connect with them in a different way, while putting value back into their communities. At a national level, we will continue with our successful existing sponsorships.”
U Zaw Zaw, the President of Myanmar Football Federation happily said, “We are very honoured to receive such tremendous support from an international organisation like Ooredoo. This support will allow us to be successful in all the MFF development programmes and international games. We hope to continue to work effectively with Ooredoo and wish them every success in launching operations in Myanmar. ”
About Ooredoo
Ooredoo is a leading international communications company delivering mobile, fixed, broadband internet and corporate managed services tailored to the needs of consumers and businesses across markets in the Middle East, North Africa and South-East Asia. As a community-focused company, Ooredoo is guided by its vision of enriching people’s lives and its belief that it can stimulate human growth by leveraging communications to help people achieve their full potential. Ooredoo has a presence in markets such as Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Palestine, the Maldives and Indonesia. The company reported revenues of $9.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2012 and had a consolidated global customer base of more than 92.9 million people as of 31 December 2012. Ooredoo’s shares are listed on the Qatar Exchange and the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange.
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About Ooredoo Myanmar
Earlier this year Ooredoo won one of the two licences made available to foreign operators in the recent Myanmar government bid process. Ooredoo will apply all of its global and regional best practice and knowledge in Myanmar to deliver a next generation mobile network and a range of exciting, customer friendly and easy-to-use mobile services. Beyond bringing the benefits of mobile technology to the Myanmar people, Ooredoo’s investment is expected to generate a significant number of jobs and be the catalyst to several hundred thousand indirect jobs in roles such as sales, distribution, customer service and other related activities.
In October 2013, Ooredoo Group announced the appointment of Ross Cormack to lead operations in Myanmar. Ooredoo Myanmar will offer a wide range of mobile communications services beyond voice and data to improve the lives of Myanmar consumers and help businesses run more efficiently. This will include the development of a comprehensive portfolio of life enriching services including mobile money services, a range of mobile health services, and services to support farmers and agriculture leveraging on its experience in launching those services in other markets.
Ooredoo Myanmar will roll out these services using a large distribution network which will quickly reach beyond Myanmar’s cities into the country’s rural areas. The Company will leverage this network in deploying innovative solutions across 3G networks using 900 and 2100 frequencies, bringing data services to where there has previously only been voice.
- In early September 2013, Ooredoo Myanmar pledged to assist the Ministry of Social Welfare in its efforts to help people suffering from the floods affecting the country with the donation of USD 40,000.
- In late September 2013, Ooredoo and Cherie Blair Foundation for Women to partner with organisations in Myanmar to train 30,000 women as Ooredoo mobile retail agents.
- In October 2013, Ooredoo Myanmar announced its USD 50,000 sponsorship at Special Olympics Myanmar National Games.
- In October 2013, as a main sponsor, Ooredoo Myanmar Meets Myanmar Mobile Application Developers at A Brainstorming Event in Myanmar ICT Park.
- In November 2013, Ooredoo Myanmar announced its USD 5,000 sponsorship for 1st Yangon Youth Forum at the signing ceremony held at Yadanar Ballroom 3, PARKROYAL Yangon hotel.
- In November 2013, Ooredoo Myanmar Takes Main Sponsorship at SQUAR Youth Festival to Show its Continuous Youth Empowerment.
- In November 2013, Ooredoo Myanmar announced its sponsorship of Myanmar Chinelone Federation.
- In November 2013, Ooredoo Myanmar sponsored the Fund Raising Music Concert for the Education of Refugee Children at Rakhine, Kachine and Myeikhtila regions.
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About Myanmar Football Federation
The Myanmar Football Federation is the governing body of football in Myanmar. The MFF oversees the Myanmar men’s national team, the women’s national team, and youth national teams as well as national football championships and professional club competitions. U Zaw Zaw is the President of the Myanmar Football Federation and is leading all the football development projects (FIFA) in Myanmar and is also the President for Asian Football Youth Development. Myanmar is one of the founding member countries of AFC which was founded in 1954 and Myanmar Football Federation was also affiliated to FIFA in 1952 .Myanmar national team was crowned as champions five consecutive times at the South East Asian Games between 1965 and 1973. During this period Myanmar also triumphed twice in the Asian Games football tournament in 1966 and 1970 and finished runners up at the Asian Cup in 1968. Regional competitions like Parks’ Cup (Korea President’s Cup), Independent Cup (Indonesia) and Merdeka Tournament (Malaysia) were also dominated by Myanmar during 60’s and 70’s.With increasing sponsorship and funding the MFF has bounced back and is on a winning streak in 2013, qualifying for the Asian Football Confederation Challenge Cup 2014 finals for the first time in four years.The Southeast Asian Games (as Known as the SEA Games), is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with supervision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Olympic Council of Asia.
