Footballer Hein Htet Aung celebrates scoring during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games men's Asian qualifier football match between Myanmar and East Timor in Yangon on March 22, 2019. (AFP)

Off target: Myanmar football falters on and off the pitch

Under decades of military rule, Myanmar football declined from its glory days in the 1960s, and the modest progress made during the transition years was spectacularly reversed by the pandemic and the coup.

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