That's changing, they're funding football pitches for all schools, making it part of the curriculum.
Interesting. I haven't been there since 2010 so it's no surprise it's changed since then.
Didn't they end their interest and fly that prick Ayre home from Florida where Shaktar were having a warm weather training camp?i thought it was his ultimate dream to play for Liverpool? the only club he would only join?
Just above 1 Billion, not rising. Problem is the country is VAST and a lot of it still undeveloped, people tend to forget that. I would reckon even with all the money involved, not even 30 years will be enough to push them near a WC title. It's not like they haven't been trying for 20 already to improve while only qualifying once.
I did hear about China's partnership with La Liga. La Liga are responsible for training 8,000 coaches in 6 Chinese cities. They also have individual partnerships with the clubs. Both Atletico and Real Madrid are opening academies in China and there are already a lot of young players being sent to various academies in Spain. Learning from the best.
It's not just the fees though, but the fact that they've picked apart the Brazilian champions, and while the players they're getting aren't absolute top players, they're starting to take good players, ala Ramirez(he could easily start for most Prem clubs, to be fair), or players from big clubs, like Jackson Martinez. It's not purely like the MLS taking old players that are past it.
I still don't see it just yet. They've got a lot of catching up to do. Ramires is going to be 29 in March so he's not got many years left in his prime and Teixeira is still uncapped at 26 and spent most of his career in Ukraine. He was clearly desperate to get out of that country and the wages they're offering don't make it surprising to me that he's happy to go there. If you believe the rumours his wages per year will make him the 10th highest player in world football. It's a huge leap for him.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...-Suning-as-Great-Haul-of-China-continues.html
Chelsea fans must be livid.
Don't get me wrong, they're fecking worlds away from where they're aiming, but they're making surprising moves, in more ways than one. Also, they're moving a fecktonne faster than the MLS, or the Indian league, and other such leagues.
Far as I can tell neither, more that the president has expressed his desire for a much better football league, and they're all falling over themselves to curry favour with him.
Just decided to Wiki them and quite a few have billion dollar companies/owners backing them, there is also a few state owned clubs by different state bodies.
Oh yeah, most of them are backed by billionaires from other businesses that can eat the losses comfortably, Guangzhou are backed by Evergande and Alibaba, big money. They could have been doing this stuff for a long time, it's the recent state/presidents push that's making it happen now. Kind of like what they're doing in athletics for the Olympics and such.
from a quick glance they start their season in march and ends somewhere at oct-nov.
It starts in March, it's too cold in the north of China for football to be played during winter.
Makes him a greedy cnut with no ambition......can I join?
There is that factor to consider and for a world record fee too!
Didn't Van Gaal already clear out all the ''Deadwood'' in the last two summers. Or so people were trumpeting anyway.
I think its just codeword for Fellaini these days.
