Tag Archives: Football

Women’s Football Coach Ra Un Sim.

When she began football, Ra Un Sim did not know she would become one of top football players in the country. Born in Kyongsong County, North Hamgyong Province, Ra moved to Chongjin in her childhood, where she took up football. She displayed her football talent in annual national games of juvenile sports schools and was […]

DPR Korea Defeats Uzbekistan 4-2 in FIFA Qualifier Match

The DPR Korea football team claimed victory in a home match with its Uzbek rival on Tuesday at Kim Il Sung Stadium as part of the second-round Asian regional preliminaries in Group H for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Four (4) first half goals laid the foundations for DPR Korea’s second win of the 2018 […]

Kim Jong Un Guides Match for Examining Men’s Football of National Sports Team

Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, guided a match for examining the men’s football of the National Sports Team which will take part in the 17th Asian Games. The National Sports Team […]

Second Premier Soccer Matches Kick off

The second premier soccer matches of the Sports Contest for Pochonbo Torch Prize started in Pyongyang on June 23. Ten men and women’s football teams will play the matches to take place at the Kim Il Sung Stadium and the Sosan Football Stadium from June 23 to July 6. Divided into two groups, they will […]

Reserve Soccer Players Training

Many successes are registered in the training of reserves in Korea under the increasing state concern for sports. The football circle of the Moranbong District Juvenile Sports School in the capital city Pyongyang is an example in this respect. Recently coaches of different sports teams pay special attention to the members of the football circle […]

Happiness of Children’s Unionists

Yuk Yong Chol, Chairman of the Kangwon Provincial Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, gave a report: “On May the 2nd, our Kangwon Province witnessed an unprecedented happy event. The bronze statues of Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were unveiled in a grand ceremony at the Songdowon International Children´s […]

Kim Jong Un Watches Men’s Football Match between Mangyongbong and Sobaeksu Teams

Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, watched a men’s football match between the Mangyongbong Team and the Sobaeksu Team together with service personnel of the KPA. Those teams which participated in the […]