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8th National Children's Football Tournament Opens
Pyongyang, May 12 (KCNA) -- The 8th National Children's Football Tournament opened with due ceremony at the Sariwon Youth Stadium on May 11 on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the Korean Children's Union.

The men and women football players who proved successful in city and county games and provincial preliminaries will play group league matches and semifinals. And the finals will be held at the Songdowon International Children's Camp.

Present at the opening ceremony were Pak Chang Ho, chief secretary of the North Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials of the youth league and schoolchildren.

Mun Chol, chairman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League, made an opening address.

Then, there took place a match between the men's football teams in North Hwanghae Province and Kangwon Province.

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