In Photos Soccer Fields Around the Globe

Children play football on a floating pitch in Koh Panyee, in Thailand’s southern Phang Nga province.

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A donkey stands on an empty soccer field near the village of Las Parcelas in Fuerteventura, Spain.

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An aerial view of a football pitch located near an interchange in Shenyang, in China’s northeastern Liaoning province.

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A picture from the Mont de Gourze in Riez, western Switzerland, shows a football pitch illuminated with floodlights at sunset above the Lake Geneva.

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Boys play football on a pitch at Tavares Bastos favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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