From the 13th to the 16th, the 2025 Youth Yang-gu Middle School 1st grade soccer festival will be held in Yang-gu, Gangwon-do
Jun 11, 2025
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The festival will be approved and operated by the Korea Football Association for the purpose of checking the performance of first-year middle school soccer players and preparing a venue for opportunities. This is the third time this year since it started in Yanggu for the first time in 2023. This competition is sponsored by Yanggu-gun with the support of the Yanggu-gun Sports Foundation. Yanggu-gun, which has established itself as a sports city, holds annual elite and amateur sports competitions not only to build youth soccer infrastructure but also to develop the local economy.
Chairman of the Yanggu-gun Football Association Kim Young-ja expressed his feelings about the festival, saying, `We are very happy to hold the first-year middle school festival in Yanggu, the center of the country, for three consecutive years, and we hope that it will be a festival period where our dream trees will have wonderful games and memories in a good air environment.' Kim Hak-in, CEO of Ribbon Corporation Lab, who has been leading the festival for three consecutive years with the Yanggu-gun Football Association, said "The first-year middle school festival is really hot." We would like to thank Yanggu-gun County Sports Foundation for its support, Seo Heung-won, Mayor of Yanggu-gun, for its efforts to establish a sports mecca for Yanggu-gun by running a festival to improve the performance of first graders, motivate them, and encourage parents to support Yanggu," he said.
The festival will be hosted by the Yanggu-gun Football Association and Ribbon Corporation Lab, and will be jointly organized and operated by the Gangwon-do Football Association. In addition, Yanggu-gun, Yanggu-gun Sports Foundation, Yanggu-gun Sports Council, D-Fit Academy, Sportizer, Lillio Plus, Grenshoes, Ribonis, and Remote Care will sponsor the competition, and each game will select the MVP of the game sponsored by Sportizer and Lillio Plus.
There will also be a special event where both participants and visitors can participate. Events and giveaways that fit the purpose of the festival will be held, such as '24K Gold Bar Gift Golden Cross Bar sponsored by Juliet, a professional jewelry brand. All income raised through giveaway events is donated as a scholarship to the Yanggu-gun community.
Reporter Park Chan-joon vanbasten@sportschosun.com
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
