Evergrande has been front and center of Chinese soccer over the past three years; especially since winning last year's Asian Champions League trophy.
French Ligue 1 title-holders Paris Saint-Germain added the Champions Trophy to their growing list of accolades with a 2-0 win over Cup winners Guingamp in Beijing on Saturday.
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With this year's World Cup in South America and the next in Europe (Russia competes in the European leg of FIFA qualifiers), FIFA logically would want to keep the 2022 World Cup in Asia.
The language barrier is no obstacle to English coaches teaching Chinese kids to enjoy soccer.
Chinese fans have watched soccer players take the World Cup field with their calligraphic tattoos with a mixture of appreciation and merriment.
The coach who led China to its only World Cup finals said the key for the country's future in football is to encourage more people to participate in the sport.
Major Chinese clubs are helping to reverse a decline in domestic soccer by backing local academies.
World Cup host is offering to help China develop soccer into a truly national sport, the head of Brazil's Sports Ministry said.
It might be very odd to associate China with the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, given that the country has only qualified once, and that was 12 years ago.
E-commerce giant Alibaba is reported to strike a deal with Evergrande Group to pay 1.2 billion yuan for a 50 percent stake in CSL club Guangzhou Evergrande.
To inspire young players during the World Cup, the National Youth Soccer Development Office, Zhongtijixian Sports Cultural Corp and Global Media Productions have jointly launched the second season of Football Dream.
Chinese soccer players are often associated with some of the more unseemly things in life; including corruption, carousing at night clubs late at night and excessive drinking and smoking.
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