Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is presented with a team scarf of soccer club Barcelona at the end of a news conference in Rome November 18, 2009.
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Hong Kong billionaire Carson Yeung, who hopes to complete his $130 million purchase of Birmingham City in the next three weeks, wants the Premier League club to spearhead a revolution in Chinese soccer. (more…)
Chinese Super League officials along with the Chinese Football Association announced that players and staff of Super League side Chongqing Lifan were confined to their training base in western China after 11 players tested positive for the H1N1 Virus, more commonly known as Swine Flu.
Steve Nash plays a pickup game of soccer at the Dongdan courts in central Beijing on August 30th. Nash is in Beijing for promotional and charity work, and played a few three-on-three half-court games with local regulars and then crossed over to the soccer pitch…
From Forbes:
China has been racing to create a home-grown auto industry since it started building highways, all part of its long and winding road from communism to capitalism. It has achieved a lot but nothing prepared onlookers for the audacity of China’s Geely at the Shanghai Motor Show, a carbon copy of the Rolls Phantom, right down to its winged hood ornament.
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Hey look, I’m all for fanaticism; I turn my phone off in the second half of important games. I’m a little upset after a big loss. I even used to get crazy looks when I had to have my beer in a certain position on the three bev-naps folded into a star while I watched Laker games. But my guy from China, who is commonly known as “The Iron Trumpet” is taking things a little bit far… According to Rueters:
The most famous fan of a Chinese soccer club has decided to become a monk after the squad withdrew from the country’s professional league last month in protest at the suspension of its top player. (more…)
The Olympic Games have shown that sports and national pride are still tightly intertwined, and perhaps nowhere more so than in the minds of Chinese leaders. Now, the government is taking a step to shore up the reputation of that most dubious of national sports icons: the men’s soccer team….After the Chinese team lost its final match on Aug. 13 to Brazil 3-0, the Propaganda Department apparently got fed up with all the jokes about the men’s team.
One major newspaper received an order to stop criticizing the men’s team, a reporter for the newspaper said. Another Chinese journalist confirmed on Wednesday night that a general order along those lines had been issued by the government.
The journalists spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of government reprisal.
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