what do you know about Chinese football

jimmycall · 11-08-2008, 12:48 AM

The players in China have a great deal of freedom.The allocation of time is according to themselves. It seems to be a great football nation except for some scandal.

domengo · 05-06-2009, 11:30 PM

qaulity of football is definitley not up there, even compared to other asian leagues. The Chinese Super League has a number of imports which help add diversity to the game.

I would say its top 6 Asian Leagues behind J-League (best asian league) K League, Iran, UAE & Saudi leagues.

DanneS · 05-06-2009, 11:52 PM

足球

Zu Qiu is fun.
One day in future 中国 will be best Asian nation. Zhong guo will kick Korea's ass.

AloneSoul · 06-06-2009, 12:55 AM

I know that for having a 1+ billion people it's pathetic to not be able to find 11 players that will make a competitive team

srex · 06-06-2009, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by AloneSoul

I know that for having a 1+ billion people it's pathetic to not be able to find 11 players that will make a competetive team

there r worse ones like india

DanEvensen · 06-06-2009, 10:53 PM

相信我, 你不要看:-D

Chinese football is nowhere near as good as it should be.

I lived in China for about a year total. I was there until about a month ago. While I was there, the Wuhan football club left the Chinese league in protest. It was something about one of its players being handed a suspension too harsh for a foul. There was a lot of talk in the Chinese language publications about disbanding the entire league, and about how the whole thing is based on corruption.

Just like everything else in China, there's a lot of hype and not a lot of substance. Chinese football has been hyped up for the last few decades, and we're still waiting for it to come to fruition. I'd recommend trying to catch CCTV-5 streams whenever you can to get a feel for what the sport is like over there, but you probably won't be very impressed.

If you want a challenge, try playing as a Chinese club in Football Manager. I did that until I realized that all my good players were signing foreign deals as soon as they possibly could. It's frustrating.

raring · 18-09-2009, 03:40 PM

Was there a Li Fushong who played for the China national team some years ago? I remember that name from Actua Soccer

chriswvtr · 18-09-2009, 09:15 PM

I know that they have 11 players on each team and a football.

So about the same as an average Man Utd fan knows about the premiership.

Dogme · 18-09-2009, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by chriswvtr

I know that they have 11 players on each team and a football.

So about the same as an average Man Utd fan knows about the premiership.

And most of them are in China.

May261999 · 20-09-2009, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by chriswvtr

I know that they have 11 players on each team and a football.

So about the same as an average Man Utd fan knows about the premiership.

Wow, you're original. The funny thing is that a good number of football fans in China are............you guessed it - Liverpool fans. Your brethren, it seems.