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Commerce and football – never the best of companions, particularly in leagues still struggling to establish themselves in a nation’s hearts. New York Red Bulls, anyone? The subject is a live one in Shanghai, as Shenhua’s new owners… Read More
It is now confirmed. China will attend the 2014 AFC Asian Cup in Australia next January, but will in effect do so as “lucky losers” having claimed the place offered to the best performing third-placed side in qualification…. Read More
During transfer windows headlines are usually made by marquee signings. In the Chinese Super League that usually means a big name coming over from Europe. This is not always just players though, it can also include managers. Famous… Read More
With 2013 coming to a close, its time for the annual round-up of how Shanghai Shenhua performed. Correspondent Cameron Wilson gets out the enigma machine to try to make sense of the CSL’s soap opera club and comes… Read More
After the second leg of the CFA final last Saturday, which saw Guizhou Renhe deny Guangzhou Evergrande the treble, four Evergrande supporters and sometime contributers to (Damian, Piers, Fee, and GZBiffo) gathered to discuss which players had been… Read More
The Chinese Super League 2013 is now over after an interesting season with Guangzhou Evergrande, as expected, the champions, while Shanghai East Asia were the surprise package of the year as the promoted team lifted the CSL’s quality… Read More
Only two games took place this weekend in the CSL due to the international games, so we got to see the talents of Shanghai East Asia and and absolutely stunning win for Qingdao over form team Tianjin which… Read More
Youth football in China is a topic that has been discussed a lot and, following last weeks’ Under-16 and Under-19 national team fixtures, it is an issue that has been highlighted once more. First off, while defeat to… Read More
This week, I saw three of the teams involved in the relegation battle live, and we can conclude that Qingdao is looking to join Wuhan as the team going down to league for one next season. Horrible… Read More
Guangzhou R&F have taken just one point from their last four games, conceded eleven goals in their last two, face a tough away trip to Dalian next weekend and see their city rivals Evergrande playing in the ACL… Read More
