Soccer exchange with elementary school students in Soma City

From March 24th (Friday) to March 26th (Sunday), nine elementary school students from the Soma SC soccer team from our friendship city, Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture, visited Inagi City to participate in the 35th FC Hirao Invitational Soccer Tournament. did. Inagi City and Soma City deepened their ties after providing support to areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and in August 2015 they concluded a friendship city agreement. In 2018, members of FC Hirao visited Soma City as part of the city's friendship city exchange project and played a match. Since then, children from FC Hirao and Soma City have continued to interact through soccer. At the time of the Fukushima Prefecture Earthquake in March 2020, we have strengthened our ties year by year, such as by transporting relief supplies from FC Hirao to Soma City.

Although it was a rainy weekend, the children from Soma SC first visited Yomiuriland with the children from FC Hirao, enjoyed the Jewellumination together, and then worked up a sweat at Oka no Yu. did. At the soccer tournament held at Inagi Nagamine Verdy Field on Sunday, we played in the rain with FC Hirao.

In addition to soccer, we have also had sports exchanges with Soma City, including a youth softball baseball team. The city will continue to support exchanges so that children can visit each other's cities, experience cultures cultivated through different histories and climates, and grow spiritually rich through interactions with new people. .