LAHORE, May 12: The Bahrain U-21 football team arrives in Lahore on Tuesday to play Pakistan U-21 in the 29th Olympics Games qualifier (second round) match to be held at Punjab Stadium on Wednesday.

The qualifier will kick off at 7pm, exactly 24 hours before the inaugural ceremony of third AFC President's Cup 2007 to be held at the same venue.

Pakistani team has Mohammad Rasheed, a former Railway’s right winger as coach while Bosnia and Herzegovina-based Bahraini coach Kreso Senad will act as coach for visiting team.

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