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Briefs hasn’t had much to offer you lately, but on this Monday, there seems just enough worthy of bringing you a new round of Briefs (without any news of transfers, what a relief!). –China League one opened up… Read More
Guangzhou Evergrande 3-0 Jiangsu Sainty CSL Round 2 Elkeson 13′,32′,64′ A hat-trick from winter signing Elkeson ensured that Guangzhou Evergrande banished memories of their recent defeat in the Super Cup to Jiangsu Sainty with an emphatic victory over… Read More
Guangdong Sunray Cave 2 – 1 Chengdu Blades China League One Round 1 Attendance: 1,505 It was the first game of the season at Guangdong Provincial Stadium and a Sunray side which saw a lot of changes… Read More
Wuhan Zall 0-1 Beijing Guoan Kanoute ’71 CSL Round 2 Attendance: 35,000 On a rainy day, Beijing Guoan were able to leave the capital of Hubei with all three points thanks to a header by Federic Kanoute, giving… Read More
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
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
