National youth football event concludes, local team finishes fourth
( chinadaily.com.cn )
Updated: 2017-08-02
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Li Yi (left), a member of the Zhangjiagang Beibei team, competes with his rival Zhai Zijie from the Huizhou team during a match on July 24. Zhangjiagang went on to triumph 7-0 in the match. [Photo by Chen Congying/Xinhua] |
The 20th Beibei Cup Youth Football Competition, the largest and most prestigious of its kind in China, drew to a conclusion in Fenghuang town in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province on July 30.
With more than 500 players fighting for the trophy from July 24 to 30, the event finally saw a team of youngsters from Central China's Henan province lifting the trophy, after beating a team from Qingdao, a coastal city in East China's Shandong province in the final
The host team from Zhangjiagang finished in fourth place, behind Hubei province.
