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Mid-school girls in the mountain have a football dream

Updated:2019-06-14 09:52:03   Yunnan Gateway

Girls practice football on June 11 at Yiyuan Middle School, which lies deep in the Yimeng Mountain, east China’s Shandong province. 

The middle school girls join hands to cheer on each other before training on June 11.

The children rest in the field after training.

At Yiyuan Middle School that lies deep in the Yimeng Mountain, east China’s Shandong province, a group of teenage girls have been training hard for their football dream.

Ages of this girl group range from 12 to 15 years old, and 20 plus of them insist on training all the year round.

The girls started playing football in their primary schools and they use the spare time and PE classes for training.

To encourage more girls in the mountainous area to play football, the school has set up a football club to train them in a professional and systematic way.

Hard work pays off, and they have won many titles in football so far. In 2018 they won the first place in the county-level football game for middle school girls.

Interested in football, the girls are determined to continue their training for more heights and glories, though it is really tough and tiring at times.

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