Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) — The DPRK again came first at the 2015 AFC U-14 Girl Regional Championship (East Asia) in the wake of last year’s.
Its team scored 32 goals in three group league matches only and five goals in the semifinals and finals.
This success and a well-organized system for training reserve footballers in the DPRK are now arousing admiration from among experts of the world.
The DPRK has a lot of juvenile sports schools and primary and secondary school football groups, which were set up in different parts of the country under the care of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the government. And the Pyongyang International Football School was opened two years ago.
At those training centers many children have grown up to be reserve footballers, cultivating their skills through such annual sports contests as the National Schoolchildren’s Sports Contest for Jongilbong Prize and the National Games of Juvenile Sports Schools.
Among them are Ra Un Sim, Ho Un Byol, Pak Yong Gwan and Han Kwang Song who contributed to the DPRK’s victory in women’s football event of the 17th Asian Games and the 2014 AFC U-16 Championship. -0-