North Korea’s Underneath-17 Ladies’s World Cup-winning footballers acquired a heroes’ welcome again within the capital Pyongyang, AFP footage confirmed on Sunday, with a whole lot of individuals on the streets to rejoice their success.
That they had defeated Spain on penalties after a 1-1 draw within the U17 World Cup closing within the Dominican Republic every week in the past.
Remarkably it was the second world title in two months for secretive North Korea — largely closed off to the skin world — in addition they lifted the Ladies’s World Cup at under-20 degree in September.
Officers and gamers’ households gathered at Pyongyang Worldwide Airport to wave flowers and North Korean
North Korean residents welcome members of the North Korean girls’s under-17 soccer group on a road in Pyongyang on Saturday. (AFP-Yonhap)
flags because the airplane approached the arrivals gate.
Beaming gamers and their households celebrated collectively, with one mom, dressed within the conventional hanbok Korean gown, telling her footballing daughter: “You labored so arduous.”
Jon Il Chong, who gained the Golden Ball for the perfect participant on the U17 World Cup, instructed AFP: “It was the will and honor of our group to provide the revered fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un the report of enjoyment and victory. “I’ll prepare more durable and more durable sooner or later in order that I’ll show the consideration of North Korea all through the world,” added Jon, who scored the very important 66th-minute equalizer towards Spain that took the sport to penalties.
Jon’s mom, Kim Yong Sil, instructed reporters: “I’ll proceed to meet my accountability as a mom to make my daughter a world-class soccer participant and wave the nationwide flag within the sky in triumph.” Giving because of the ruling Kim household and utilizing sports activities achievements as a way to lift the nationwide profile is a convention for North Korean athletes and their households after notable victories.
The victorious squad took to an open truck embellished with flowers and painted with the North Korean flag to drive by means of town as they waved to folks on the streets. Some folks approached the automobile to shake arms, with some males in navy uniform saluting because the gamers handed. Whereas the secretive nation’s males’s soccer group are presently ranked down at 111th on the planet, their feminine counterparts have gained two youth World Cups in two months.
State media proclaimed that the nation’s teenage gamers had been “the eye of soccer consultants, followers and spectators the world over” after the U17 triumph final Sunday.
North Korea have certified for the Ladies’s World Cup 4 instances, reaching the quarter-finals in 2007. They’re ranked ninth on the planet. (AFP)
