YANGON, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Associacao Missao Esperanca (AME) soccer team from Brazil and former Myanmar selections soccer team will play a fund-raising soccer match here later this month for the victims of deadly cyclone Nargis which hit five divisions and states in Myanmar in early May, state-run newspaper The Myanma Alin reported on Sunday.

    The AME soccer team from Brazil has proposed to the Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) to play charity match for the victims of cyclone Nargis and it will be held at the Thuwunna Youth Training Center football field on Oct. 27, it said.

    The AME soccer team, which comprises 17 players including nine famous ex-selections from Brazilian national team -- one each from1994 World Cup winner and 1998 World Cup first runners-up Brazilian teams and seven others not included in the World Cup events -- and eight who are playing in the Brazilian League tournaments, will play the cyclone fund-raising soccer match with the Myanmar ex-selections team which is made up of many talented former selections from the team getting silver medal in the 1993 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, the paper said.

    Players from the Myanmar ex-selections team will make training every weekends this month as a preparation for the charity match, which is the first of its kind to be held in Myanmar, it said.