Some 1,500 students from the Tagou martial arts program have signed up for a new soccer program.
The vast Tagou martial arts school, a few kilometers from the cradle of Chinese kung fu, the Shaolin Temple in central China's Henan Province, has 35,000 fee-paying boarders, who live in spartan conditions and are put through a rigorous training regime.
China is investing hugely in training a future generation of soccer stars, and has vowed to have 50 million school-age players by 2020. China would like to be a "football superpower" by 2050.
The Children will be a pristine green Astroturf football pitch where dozens of children play simultaneous five-a-side games.