ASEAN leaders get football jerseys as souvenirs

Ten Southeast Asian leaders will bring home some souvenir, particularly special football jerseys, after attending summit talks in Thailand. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders received blue jerseys with their surnames at the back after forging an agreement with FIFA on football collaboration last Saturday. During the signing ceremony, President Duterte and Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah got jersey number 10 as heads of states, a number associated with the great football players. Seven other heads of government of Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam Cambodia, and Laos, on the other hand, got number 9 shirts usually worn by strikers. Indonesian President Jokowi Widodo was the only leader with the number 21 jersey, which indicated his country as host of the 2021 Under-21 World Cup. The football shirts were handed out by FIFA President Gianni Infantino to the ASEAN leaders as they gathered onstage. Duterte was the last leader to