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50 youth soccer teams from six countries start competing in China

Xinhua, July 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Young soccer players from Russia beat their Chinese counterparts 7-1 on Thursday in the opening match of an international youth football tournament in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The team from Buryatia, one of Russia's republics, competed in an U-13 category with the team from Baotou, a city of Inner Mongolia.

More than 50 teams from six countries including Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Uzbekistan and host China participated in the tournament, running from July 16-26.

The U-13 category featured five-a-side games, while the U-15 teams played standard 11-a-side football.

A football-themed forum was held on the occasion as well on Thursday. Endit