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Why Chinese female footballers deserve higher pay
Mar 18, 2016 (WiC 317)

England prides itself as football’s birthplace, but any hubris on this score is mixed with a certain humility, as the nation also views itself as perhaps the least impressive of the sport’s best performers (an echelon that includes Germany, ...

A trade on Beijing’s ‘third board’ makes team the world’s most valuable club
Mar 18, 2016 (WiC 317)

Are China’s Super League champions Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao really the most valuable football club in the world? This claim was made by Xinhua news agency, thanks to the “price-discovering power” of the National Equities Exchange and ...

Chinese spending spree shocks world football
Feb 12, 2016 (WiC 313)

This year’s football season is full of surprises. It looks like lowly Leicester City might win the English Premier League, and a team from Nanjing has just outbid world-famous Liverpool for one of the game’s top players. Yes, these are ...

Chinese tycoon teams up with world’s top football agent
Jan 29, 2016 (WiC 311)

Chinese newspapers reckon Jorge Mendes, arguably the most influential broker of deals in world football, has a lot in common with his Chinese counterpart Joseph Lee. They actually call Lee “China’s Mendes”. Among the things they have in ...

Victorious Evergrande FC’s sponsor is mightily upset
Nov 27, 2015 (WiC 305)

For Chinese football it was a week of apology, glory and recrimination. In an action-packed seven days the country’s top team even faced a potential lawsuit – from its own sponsor – while one of its owners – Alibaba’s Jack Ma – was ...

Is China’s top football team worth Rmb10 billion?
Jul 10, 2015 (WiC 289)

Investing in sports teams is not always a smart idea, even when the team is a serial winner on the pitch. Manchester United first listed in June 1991. Seeking to raise £10 million ($15.5 million), the English football club went public on the ...

Did anyone tell gold medallist Liu that marriage is a marathon not a sprint
Jul 3, 2015 (WiC 288)

Kim Kardashian’s marriage to basketball player Kris Humphries only lasted 72 days. To help gauge that time horizon, the Wall Street Journal commeted that’s even shorter than the lifespan of horseflies, which last about a year. Fewer and ...

Chinese react to FIFA scandal
Jun 5, 2015 (WiC 284)

Could Chinese president Xi Jinping’s dream of hosting football’s World Cup come true as early as 2018? That was one of the questions doing the rounds on Chinese social media this week as news broke that embattled FIFA President Sepp Blatter ...

66 ‘illegal’ golf courses told to close
Apr 17, 2015 (WiC 277)

As WiC noted in its review of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream – Dan Washburn’s revealing retrospective of the sport’s development in China (see WiC245) – a government ban on new course construction was first ...

China’s five-year football plan
Mar 27, 2015 (WiC 275)

When the Chinese national football team reached the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup in January the fans and the media were ecstatic. Xinhua hailed their three-match winning streak in the group stage as a “fairy tale run”. Even when the team ...

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