Soccer-Portugal football chiefs to aid fan rescued after tsunami

Soccer-Portugal football chiefs to aid fan rescued after tsunami

LISBON: A seven-year-old tsunami victim rescued wearing a Portuguese national team jersey has been promised help by the Portuguese soccer federation, the body said on Monday.

The boy, Martunis, was rescued from an isolated beach in Indonesia's Banda Aceh last Saturday having been spotted by a British television team after surviving for 19 days there.

Martunis was found wearing the red-and-green jersey of the Portuguese national side. Federation chief Gilberto Madail decided to help the boy after his story was reported in Portuguese media, Diario de Noticias newspaper said.