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Dances with Wolves

China’s tycoons are buying English soccer teams
Aug 26, 2016 (WiC 337)

When the footballers of West Bromwich Albion were first acquainted with China in 1978, the players were said to be close to mutinous about having to tour there at the end of a long season. Bemused when their hosts offered them half-time ice ...

What has Rio told us about China’s changing approach to the Olympics?
Aug 19, 2016 (WiC 336)

For many Chinese citizens the Summer Olympics have long been a source of national pride. But at the ongoing Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro China’s efforts to export its soft power have also received an unexpected boost from American swimming legend ...

Chinese retailer buys Inter Milan; is AC Milan next?
Jun 10, 2016 (WiC 328)

Money doesn’t always guarantee success in football. Oil tycoon president Massimo Moratti smashed the transfer world record twice after he bought Inter Milan in 1995, pairing up the original Ronaldo (of Brazil) and Italy’s own golden boy ...

Crazy like a fox

The Chinese react to Leicester’s incredible English Premiership triumph
May 13, 2016 (WiC 324)

Most football pundits predicted that Leicester City would be one of the three teams relegated from the English Premier League this year. Nine months later the rank outsiders were crowned champions with two games to spare. Leicester’s ...

Level playing field?

Why Chinese female footballers deserve higher pay
Mar 18, 2016 (WiC 317)

England prides itself as football’s birthplace, but any hubris on this score is mixed with a certain humility, as the nation also views itself as perhaps the least impressive of the sport’s best performers (an echelon that includes Germany, ...

Top of the league

A trade on Beijing’s ‘third board’ makes team the world’s most valuable club
Mar 18, 2016 (WiC 317)

Are China’s Super League champions Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao really the most valuable football club in the world? This claim was made by Xinhua news agency, thanks to the “price-discovering power” of the National Equities Exchange and ...

Top of their league

Chinese spending spree shocks world football
Feb 12, 2016 (WiC 313)

This year’s football season is full of surprises. It looks like lowly Leicester City might win the English Premier League, and a team from Nanjing has just outbid world-famous Liverpool for one of the game’s top players. Yes, these are ...

Mendes plays his red card

Chinese tycoon teams up with world’s top football agent
Jan 29, 2016 (WiC 311)

Chinese newspapers reckon Jorge Mendes, arguably the most influential broker of deals in world football, has a lot in common with his Chinese counterpart Joseph Lee. They actually call Lee “China’s Mendes”. Among the things they have in ...

Victorious Evergrande FC’s sponsor is mightily upset
Nov 27, 2015 (WiC 305)

For Chinese football it was a week of apology, glory and recrimination. In an action-packed seven days the country’s top team even faced a potential lawsuit – from its own sponsor – while one of its owners – Alibaba’s Jack Ma – was ...

IPO is new goal

Is China’s top football team worth Rmb10 billion?
Jul 10, 2015 (WiC 289)

Investing in sports teams is not always a smart idea, even when the team is a serial winner on the pitch. Manchester United first listed in June 1991. Seeking to raise £10 million ($15.5 million), the English football club went public on the ...

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