Last year, five lucky budding young Malaysian footballers had a chance to train at Cerezo Osaka and five more new players will get the same chance in 2019. Cerezo in partnership with Television Osaka and Yakult launched the Asean Dream Project for the second season in search of the next big talent from Southeast Asia.
Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam were the three locations in 2018 and Myanmar replaces Vietnam as the new location for the 2019 project. Each country are given five slots where selected players are sent for a training cum visit to Cerezo Osaka that will also include taking in a J-League match at Yanmar Stadium between Cerezo and Sagan Tosun.