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CFA’s New Short Film: National Passion in Grassroots Football

2019-01-18 12:40     CFA

“Though we’ve got so many beautiful landscapes, football is always the most attractive one to me.”- a man resides near the Yulong Snow Mountains.

Yuhu, name of the village on the skirt of Yulong Snow Mountain where this true story take place, has a local grassroots football league of which the history can be traced back to a long time ago. Villagers often support the league in their unique ways and show to the outsiders that football has indeed become a lifestyle in here.

In China, there are many grassroots football tournaments of the same kind with the Yuhu League. Since 2014, nationwide grassroots football programs such as Chinese Football Association Member Association Chinampions League (CMLL),Enjoy this game,Middle and Elderly Cup have been emerging and upgrading one after another, gradually strengthening its impression to the people. Thanks to the arrangement of the Chinese Football Association, more than 30,000 matches were played among 300,000 players from 20,000 teams, involving nearly 300 million people in the area. Because of the hard efforts and good contributions, the Chinese Football Association has won the 2018 AFC Dream Asia Award in recognition of the country’s positive initiatives in the area of social responsibility.

At the beginning of the new year, the Chinese Football Association would like to express its sincere gratitude to our dear colleagues, friends and fans for your kind attention and strong support over the past year. In 2019, the Chinese Football Association will continue to pool all kinds of resources, regulate grassroots football events, build grassroots brand tournaments, and further develop the social football programs to a more vigorous phase.

People’s Football – From People and Rooted in Love.

(edit:李鑫)