Football: Laos no longer minnows at youth level, thanks in part to Sundram and Selva

V. Sundram Moorthy has been the Laos Football Federation's technical director since January 2021. PHOTO: LAOS FOOTBALL FEDERATION
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SINGAPORE - Even though the Republic's national youth teams languished at two recent Asean Football Federation (AFF) age-group tournaments, two Singaporeans had their own reasons to smile.

At those same tournaments, former Lions coach V. Sundram Moorthy and Young Lions coach V. Selvaraj helped Laos, one of the region's traditional minnows, shed that tag.

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