The 'Football Girl' and her football dream

Edited and translated by Li Xiang, People's Daily Online

Everyone in the village calls Shang Lianghui the “Football girl”. Shang is a midfielder in the football team in a high school in Linyi city, east China's Shandong Province.

TV makes her fall in love with football

When Shang was still a little girl, her brother and she broke the TV remoter when they fought for the control of the TV. As a result, the sports channel became the only channel she can watch. Accidentally, she watched her very first complete football match on TV, and could not help but falling for football ever since. Shang Lianghui sets Chinese women's football players as her models, and vows to be one of them in the future to realize the football dream.