Female football team ignites Tibetan teenagers’ dreams

Teenage female football players are training at the playground of a boarding school in Gonghe County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Qinghai Province, April 21, 2021. The school has a 53-membered female football team that is divided into two age groups. All of the teen players are Tibetan girls from pastoral areas.(China News Service/Ma Mingyan)

A teenage girl is training to shot at the playground of a boarding school in Gonghe County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Qinghai Province, April 21, 2021. The school has a 53-membered female football team that is divided into two age groups. All of the teen players are Tibetan girls from pastoral areas.(China News Service/Ma Mingyan)

Teenage female football players are training at the beach at Qinghai Lake, April 21, 2021. The players are from a boarding school in Gonghe County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Qinghai Province. The school has a 53-membered female football team that is divided into two age groups. All of the teen players are Tibetan girls from pastoral areas. (China News Service/Ma Mingyan)

The photo shows the teenage female football team of a boarding school in Gonghe County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Qinghai Province, April 21, 2021. The school has a 53-membered female football team that is divided into two age groups. All of the teen players are Tibetan girls from pastoral areas.(China News Service/Ma Mingyan)

Teenage female football players are training at the playground of a boarding school in Gonghe County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Qinghai Province, April 21, 2021. The school has a 53-membered female football team that is divided into two age groups. All of the teen players are Tibetan girls from pastoral areas.(China News Service/Ma