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Secondary School, Producer of Promising Footballers
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- There are many schools training promising athletes in DPRK.

Among them is Pyongyang May 13 Ryongnam Secondary School. It has been well known to the whole country for its produce of many able male footballers.

The school has distinguished itself in over 10 national or Pyongyang City male football contests of secondary school students, including the National Schoolchildren's Sports Contest for Jongilbong Prize.

Graduates of the school, Choe Myong Ho, Kim Yong Jun, An Il Bom and Kim Chol Ho of the DPRK team made their bit in the 2006 AFC Under-19 Soccer Championship, the Asian final preliminary for FIFA 2010 World Cup and other international soccer games.

Besides, many graduates who polished football techniques at the school are active at leading local sports teams as forwards with exquisite scoring tricks and reliable half backs.

Mun Kwang Sop, with a career of 20-odd-year physical culture teacher, said that he would extensively operate after-school sports circle and thus rear more reserves of athletes who would glorify the honor of the country with gold medals.

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