On Friday, the first day of the new school year, some former Sanhe soccer players participated in the opening ceremony for the new school year. They shared stories of their former coach and school team. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Ten years ago, headmaster Sun Xiaoming founded a 20-member girls' soccer team at Sanhe Primary School in Chongqing's Shizhu Tujia autonomous county, then a state-level poverty-stricken area. Now 19 of them have grown up and got into Chinese universities thanks to their outstanding skills on the soccer pitch.
Sanhe Primary School in Chongqing's Shizhu Tujia autonomous county boasts a girls' soccer team made up of left-behind children since 2013. [Photos provided to chinadaily.com.cn]