PHNOM PENH, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Eight Cambodian teenagers will compete in a football tournament and cultural exchange in South Africa during the 2010 FIFA World Cup to highlight the need to eradicate land mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) worldwide, local media reported on Monday.
The team members, four girls and four boys aged 13 to 15 from Battambang, Banteay Meanchey and Pailin provinces, were selected by the organization Spirit of Soccer and the Cambodian Football Federation to compete in the Football for Hope Festival in Johannesburg.
"I think it's a great opportunity for them to be a part of the training," said Rachel Haig, senior program adviser for Spirit of Soccer in Cambodia was quoted by the Phnom Penh Post as saying.
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