At 6:00 a.m. on any day in December, it is still dark in the village of Yuanbao in Guizhou Province. 1
But
Wu Yujie is already playing football with her teammates in the playground. 2
Usually
(usual) the girls train for about four hours every day. Xu Zhaowei is their football teacher.
Xu came to the school as a volunteer to help with rural(农村的) education. 3
In
2017, Xu began to teach the students how 4
to play
(play) football and later he made a football team. As a football fan, Xu had some basic knowledge about football. He spent lots of time learning from 5
videos
(video). He didn't expect the girls to play well. So he was really 6
amazed
(amaze) when he heard that the girls won the first place among primary schools in a competition.
"They have good qualities(品质)—they are stronger and they practise harder than others," said Xu. As 7
an
excellent football teacher, he helped these students get into good schools.
Xu 8
thinks
(think) that football can help the students get a good education, so he plans to try his best 9
to help
(help) the football team. Now, the sport is helping students make 10
their
(they) dreams come true, such as flying by plane and seeing the sea. In the future, students will get a lot more from playing football.