Introducing our new contributor
Smari
is delighted to welcome on board its first contributor – Smari. He brings much needed Chinese language skills to the site, an inimitable blogger’s style, and of course that most necessary pre-requisite for anyone writing about Chinese football – a sense of humour.
Are you interested in contributing to ? Drop the editor a line at editor@wildeastfootball.org. Read on for Smari’s self-introduction.
Smari
Ever since witnessing Yang Chen’s near goal opportunity in the game of China vs. Turkey in World Cup 2002 from his bed at 3am, Smari has developed an avid interest in following the Chinese national team.
He had seen how the Chinese team was worshipped as gods during the World Cup 2002 and Asian Cup 2004, and how they are treated like shit since the failure to qualify for the World Cup 2006.
Smari joined Wild East Football as a contributor because he realized there is a need for the world to know about Chinese football. There is an almost bare minimum amount of English langauge forums or websites that strictly talk about Chinese football, the Chinese Super League, the Chinese national team, etc.
The world needs to know that Chinese football is not about Shaolin football, corruption, diving, and cheating; we are about playing with our heart to bring smiles to our already embarrassed fans.
Smari hopes he would be able to witness the improvement of Chinese football and spend all his life savings to watch Guojiadui’s second World Cup appearance at whatever venue, even a warzone.
Apart from writing/translating Chinese football news, Smari loves playing mahjang, imitating how Samri Nasri dribbles in the Emirates pitch, watching how Adam Johnson terrorizes his rivals, learning bartending to make up his reason for consistent drunkenness, being artistically weird by shooting abstract photos, and defeating boringism in his mundane life.
He also loves travelling, and he hopes to have his own apartment that is filled with national team jerseys from every country he visited.
Smari often attributes his depression to the current dire state of Chinese football, let’s hope he won’t turn insane soon.
