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With Shenxin’s move to Yuanshen Stadium, at 16:00 on Sunday the first true Shanghai derby for many a year kicks off a bumper season for intra-city rivalry. ‘s unashamedly partisan previewer-in-the-stands is still feeling some optimism from a… Read More
In an interview published in Southern People Weekly (南方人物周刊) on Friday, Guangzhou Evergrande’s Italian coach Marcello Lippi spoke about a range of topics regarding Chinese football, including his views on the development of football in China as a… Read More
With the Chinese Super league finally under way, your pubsters get their teeth into last weekends action and ask all the usual questions one might expect of a new season, such as which teams stood out, who will… Read More
Everton defender Tyias Browning has been called up to the England Under-19 squad for an upcoming fixture with Turkey, having previously represented his country at Under-17 level. Interestingly, Browning is one of just a couple of players in top… Read More
When Wuhan Zall and Beijing Guoan take the field on Saturday, it will be in front of over 30,000 rabid supporters in Hubei’s capital city. This is despite the players have nothing against each other and one set… Read More
On a night when security was higher than even during the Olympics, Worker’s Stadium was a fortress for Beijing Guoan, who kept all three points in the capital, defeating Japanese champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2-1. Once again it was… Read More
Evergrande, the Nandu reports, were not able to give club owner Xu Jiayin a special 3 point gift after his election to the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee. This may have been a blessing in disgiuse… Read More
With much talk that Jose Antonio Camacho’s latest squad would see Chen Zhizhao, currently playing for Brazilian club Corinthians, get a call up into the national team, we finally have a look at the full squad for China’s… Read More
In lieu of a preview of today’s matches, we’re featuring our translation of an interview between the Guangzhou paper Soccer News and Guoan manager Aleksandar Stanojevic. The manager talks about a number of different subjects and it appears… Read More
Jeonbuk Motors 1-1 Guangzhou Evergrande ACL Round 2 Kim Jung-Woo 28′; Muriqui 64′ Attendance: 10,949 Guangzhou Evergrande emerged unscathed from their trip to Korea to take on Jeonbuk Motors on Tuesday night with a second-half goal from Brazilian forward… Read More
