Real Madrid football school opens in Iran's Bam

Newkerala - A Real Madrid football school opened Sunday in Bam in southeast Iran, where over 30,000 people were killed in the 2003 quake.

The city's sporting authorities and the Spanish giants inked a contract earlier this year to provide free football education to the orphans of Bam.

Real Madrid will provide the quake-hit city with sports equipment and even send Spanish educators for the kids as well as local football coaches.

Despite two years of local and international efforts, the reconstruction of the almost-devastated city is not complete and most residents continue to live in container-like prefabricated houses.