Female soccer players, wearing blue outfits representing Nantong city, play a match in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, March 16, 2013. There are 50 women soccer players in Nantong, all of whom are preparing for the 18th Jiangsu Provincial Games slated to be held in 2014. These girls, though from different places around the country, are determined to grab a third consecutive trophy for the city in the Group B competition. They have to study at night to catch up with their schoolmates in academic performance after hectic training during daytimes. Soccer has become their lifestyle, they said. [Photo/icpress.cn]

A female soccer player stretches during a training session in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, March 26, 2013. [Photo/icpress.cn]