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Feature: Ten years on, football dream keeps flourishing on Loess Plateau-Xinhua
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Feature: Ten years on, football dream keeps flourishing on Loess Plateau
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GLOBALink | Rural children s football dream in NW China-Xinhua
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2021-02-20 11:35:15 GMT2021-02-20 19:35:15(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
By sportswriters Yao Youming and Ma Bangjie
XI AN, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) Tucked in a narrow valley between mountains, the remote, small county of Zhidan was one of the poorest parts of China when American journalist Edgar Snow ventured across the Loess Plateau in the country s northwest in 1936.
Today, although still less developed than coastal regions, Zhidan is well-known nationwide for its success in grassroots football development.
Only around 60 people played football on the dusty ground in the barren reaches of Zhidan nearly 20 years ago, when China qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first and only time. Today, that number has risen to 6,000, and 32 modern artificial turf pitches have been built in the Shaanxi province county that 160,000 people call home.