Kathmandu, July 17 Nepali team is set to take part in the Street Child World Cup, a football event to be played ahead of the FIFA World Cup in Moscow, Russia next year. Shelter Aashraya Nepal, which is providing shelters to street children, will take Nepali boys’ team to Moscow for the seven-a-side football event being organised by Street Child United Initiatives. Shelter Aashraya will organise a football league to pick up the players for the World Cup, informed Shelter Aashraya Nepal’s President Khusbu Oli at a press meet today. “We have invited different teams for the league as there are more than 200 organisations working in the field of street children. And we will select players from the league,” said Oli. “We have inviting other organisations to take part in the selection as we don’t want to take our children only to the World Cup,” she added. Santosh Karki, Project Leader at Shelter Aashraya, said only nine players will be selected for the competition. “We will select 22 children in the first phase and keep them in closed camp training before picking up a nine-member squad. The team will be selected based on overall talent rather than just football skills as the players will have to participate in other activities during the World Cup,” said Karki. The national league will be organised within a month. Meanwhile, Funroots Football Academy of Japan supported Shelter Aashraya with 30 pairs of boots and 10 balls. Funroots Academy President Jun Hirano handed over the kits to the children of the Shelter Aashraya Nepal. Former Nepal international player Basanta Gauchan, who has been working as a head coach at Funroots Academy, had initiated for the support.Gauchan said the support would encourage the children towards the sport. “It is not a big support but we believe it will motivate them,” said Gauchan, who has planned to open football academy in Nepal and provide the footballers with an opportunity to play in Japan. “I am trying to connect Nepali football to Japanese professional football so that Nepali players could get the chance to play in J-league,” he added.