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Football dreams from village of Wawu
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A once impoverished area in southwestern China's Sichuan province is now a place where local girls aspire to become football players.
China.org.cn丨Updated: December 25, 2019
Editor's note: The following photo feature tells the inspiring story of a new girls' football team at a school deep in the mountains of southwestern China's Sichuan province. The school, located in the village of Wawu at an altitude of more than 2,600 meters, was reopened in 2004 by a newly certified teacher, Qubi Shigu.
In the years since, the school grew from four students to 272, and the once impoverished area with no electricity or road access is now a place where local girls harbor big dreams to become professional football players.
An aerial photograph of the village school in Wawu enveloped in fog in the mountainous Daliangshan region in southwest China's Sichuan province. [Photo by Chen Weisong/China.org.cn]
