What’s the problem with Chinese soccer? Rowan Simons knows.
Rowan Simons became a household name among Chinese soccer fans for his TV commentary on English football. His efforts to promote grassroots soccer within China proved much more difficult.
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Prada’s partnership with Chinese women’s soccer team could be a game changer for country’s female athletes
The partnership was revealed 10 days before the 2023 Women’s World Cup begins in New Zealand and Australia. At home, fan enthusiasm and expectations for the Chinese women’s national soccer team have never been higher.
An African in China brings global sports to Africa — Q&A with Lloyd Randall
He moved from civil war torn Sierra Leone to Beijing where he graduated with degrees in IT and management. Now he’s the face of one of the biggest sports TV broadcasters in Africa, and it’s a Chinese company.
Messi madness grips Beijing
Central Beijing ground to a halt yesterday ahead of Argentina’s friendly against Australia. There was only one man everyone wanted to see.
Lionel Messi gets overwhelming welcome in China for match on Xi’s birthday
The Argentinian soccer superstar was greeted with roaring adulation when he touched down in Beijing on Saturday. Messi and his national team will play a friendly match against Australia on Xi Jinping's 70th birthday.
Chinese soccer’s latest anti-corruption purge, explained
Politics is supposed to stay out of high-level soccer, but nothing could be further from the reality in China. This partly explains why on-field results have suffered. But there are many other problems.
‘Scraping poison from the bone’ — Phrase of the Week
Anti-corruption investigations in Chinese football are part of a deeper drive to rid the sport of corruption and clean up the game. And there's a Chinese idiom for that.
Li Tie vs. Sun Jihai: The most-watched English soccer match in China
On New Year's Day in 2003, Chinese soccer was at its peak, with the national team coming off its first-ever World Cup appearance and two ascendant stars — Li Tie and Sun Jihai — playing with big-time clubs in England. When Li and Sun's respective teams faced off, it was must-see TV in China.
This week on TikTok: Firework protests, mural art of Sheep Chen, and China’s soccer woes
Want more like this? Subscribe to The China Project's official TikTok channel, ChinaVibe, where Susan St.Denis explains complex topics about China clearly and simply in TikTok’s fast evolving visual and verbal language.
CCTV alters World Cup broadcast to minimize shots of maskless fans
"Is this the same world as ours?" one Chinese viewer posted on social media.