French Khmers coming home

The Khmer Select squad that will arrive in Cambodia next month

There are a series of football games coming up in November that will be of interest to fans in Phnom Penh and beyond. A Khmer Select team from France will be journeying over to the Kingdom to play a series of five matches, three of them against the best of the C-League teams, to foster a closer relationship between the Khmer footballers of Cambodia and in France. The Khmer Select group arrive in the city on 4 Nov and will play their first match against Preah Khan Reach at the Olympic Stadium on 7 Nov at 3.30pm. They then meet Naga Corp on 10 Nov, same time, same location. Their third and final match against the big boys will be a meeting with C-League champions Phnom Penh Crown, also at Olympic Stadium on Saturday 13 Nov at 3.30pm. They will then play matches in Kompong Cham and Battambang before returning home to Paris on 18 Nov. The Khmer Select team have been together for a while now and the man behind them is former Cambodian national player Pen Phath.