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China continued to show a worrying lack of cutting edge as they toiled to a goalless draw against Palestine in their final warm-up game before departing for next month’s Asian Cup in Australia. Having beaten lowly Kyrgyzstan in… Read More
Hong Kong correspondent Christopher KL Lau brings his regular round-up of all the very latest news, developments and other footballing points of interest from the SAR.… Kitchee Edge Out Stumbling Sun Pegasus With only nine teams in the… Read More
North Korea have qualified for next summer’s EAFF East Asian Cup in Wuhan, China, following a recent round-robin tournament in Taipei, which promised litte but ended up delivering plenty. The first round of matches were held on a… Read More
China comfortably defeated a poor Kyrgyz side in what amounted to little more than a training match for Alain Perrin’s men in the somewhat obscure location of Chengzhou, Hunan. Wu Lei’s 35th minute strike added to a 19th… Read More
Jamie McIllroy cuts through the gossip to look at which deals are done and dusted so far in the close season Beijing Guoan Perhaps the most significant transfer news of the month so far is that of Beijing… Read More
Beijing Guoan is considering playing some of it’s 2015 matches, perhaps including the Asian Champions League matches, at the empty, soulless edifice in northern Beijing called the Bird’s Nest. Doing so would be the ultimate in outrages. As… Read More
This was a record breaking season for Beijing Guoan, one in which they came oh so close to a title win, but fell oh so short on the final day. If they would have had some of their key… Read More
Formerly known as the East Asian Football Championship, the EAFF East Asian Cup has emerged in recent years as a competition taken somewhat more seriously than straight-up friendly international matches – by China, at least. The preliminary rounds… Read More
Sadly, the Chinese domestic season is over but with significant investment reportedly coming the way of a few teams – most notably Sven Goran Erikson’s Shanghai SIPG – this year’s winter transfer window is expected to be an eventful… Read More
Hong Kong correspondent Christopher KL Lau once again brings his regular round-up of all the very latest news, developments and other footballing points of interest from the SAR.… Kitchee fightback to draw 2-2 In most countries, a top… Read More
