In December , AP reported: The rise of the Chinese Super League as a lucrative destination for high-profile footballers has done little to stifle concern about the underachieving national team or the grassroots development of the game in the world's most populous country. While Asian Football Confederation director of competitions Tokuaki Suzuki is happy to see the big names introduced to the AFC Champions League, the continent's flagship club competition, he hopes that equal attention can be given to grassroots development in China.
For the moment, however, China's long-suffering fans are enjoying some excitement after years of watching the national team struggle and its clubs lose to those of Japan and South Korea in the Champions League.
Zhang expects the arrival of big names from Europe will aid the development of the game in Asia, adding that the recent recruiting "also proves that the gap between Asian football and the best of world football is closing fast. Despite the money being spent at the top level, there are reportedly fewer than 10, registered junior players in China compared with more than , in Japan.
Amid the excitement at Anelka's signing, there have been some concerns expressed as to whether the money could be better invested elsewhere. The English Premier League now regards China as one its largest international markets, drawing between million and million viewers. In pick up games you are more likely to see players wearing jerseys for European clubs like Barcelona, Manchester United, AC Milan and Chelsea than those belonging to Chinese teams.
European teams such as Arsenal, A. Milan and Sampdoria have played before sold out crowds in China. Chinese fans follow them and teams like Manchester United and Juventus on television.
There is particular interest of European teams that have Chinese players. Barcelona played before full stadiums in a three city tour in China in the summer of Ronaldinho is one of the biggest pitchmen in China.
His image is on everything from Lenovo computers to a Chinese brand of ice cream. The English soccer club Chelsea let the Chinese national soccer team use its state of the art training facilities to prepare for the Olympics. Corruption, match-fixing and referee-bribing are relatively common in Chinese soccer.
In January , 12 top Chinese clubs admitted in a newspaper survey that they had offered cash bribes to referees, some of whom took he money. Allegations of match-rigging were raised in the fall of , following a victory by one team that allowed it move up significantly in the standings; a victory with four goals scored in the last eight minutes; and the awarding of a goal to one team by a referee while the opposing team was still taking the field.
Later two club owners confessed of their roles in a bribery scheme. After public outrage reached a fever point, it finally acted, suspending several players and slapping the teams involved with heavy fines. Officials, coaches and players have all been accused of game-fixing and gambling. At least 20 people have been arrested, including Nan Yong, the vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association. It was only after we got into the business that we realized giving money to referees was standard operating procedure.
I can say that nine out of ten referees have been offered bribes or accepted bribes. Even the most conservative estimates put the number at 50 percent. Manchester United went on to win the game The other international match was a fixture between Shanghai Shenhua and Australian club Sydney, which the Chinese club won Coach Vitezslav Lavicka said he remembered nothing suspicious about the match.
Zhou is charged with corruption and bribing civil servants. Their trials in northeast China are part of a crackdown on Chinese football corruption that has implicated players and top officials including the former head of the Chinese Football Association.
Yang Yimin, a former deputy-chief of the Chinese Football Association, was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison by a Tieling court in China's northeastern Liaoning province, and ordered to pay a , yuan fine, state media reported. Yang, one of the highest-ranking officials to be swept up in the probe launched over two years ago, had taken bribes totalling 1.
Yang would not appeal the sentence, the agency quoted Yang's attorney Wang Shujing as saying. The court also sentenced the CFA's former referees director Zhang Jianqiang to 12 years in jail, with a fine of , yuan. Zhang, in his capacity as referees director and in other prominent roles in women's and amateur soccer, had taken bribes from a number of clubs in the top-flight domestic competition, the Chinese Super League CSL , including Shandong Luneng and Shanghai Shenhua.
He had taken money from Shenhua to help them win the league title, Xinhua said. He also did not intend to appeal. The Tieling court read out trial verdicts and sentences to a total of 39 people, including Du Yunqi, former president of CSL club Qingdao, who received a seven-year sentence. Former Liaoning Guangyuan Club general manager Wang Xin was also sentenced to seven years in prison while former general manager of Shaanxi Guoli Wang Po received a eight-year term.
Soccer fans set off fireworks outside the court to celebrate the rulings, Xinhua said. Chinese soccer has been dogged by match-fixing scandals for years which, along with violence on and off the pitch, has turned fans off the domestic game. Four referees, including Lu Jun, a former World Cup match official once celebrated as China's "Golden Whistle", were handed jail terms of up to seven years on Thursday for match-fixing and corruption-related offences.
Two of the most prominent people caught in the anti-corruption blitz, former CFA heads Nan Yong and Xie Yalong, are yet to go on trial. The verdicts have cast a cloud over the CSL ahead of its March 10 kick-off with administrators facing the embarrassment of a number of scandal-hit teams set to take the field.
China has a problem with rowdy fans. In the mid s, officials began cracking down on sports fans who yell obscenities at opposing players and referees.
One man was banned from matches in Beijing for 12 months. Another was held by police for using the Internet to organize rowdy fans at matches. A 20 percent rise in facial paralysis in Beijing in was blamed on fans stressed out by the World Cup. A doctor quoted by the state media said that the he believed the rise was attributed to tension and exhaustion associated with watching the matches, often televised in the wee hours of the morning. The condition, known as Bells palsy or prosopoplegia, is caused by nerve trauma and is temporary.
Most victims recovered in a few weeks or months. One Chinese soccer fan suffered a heart attack after Portugal missed a goal against Angola. He had stayed up three days, drinking heavily and watching World Cup soccer games all night.
It is said that the Han emperor Wu Di enjoyed the sport. At the same time, cuju games were standardized and rules were established. Football matches were often held inside the imperial palace.
A type of court called ju chang was built especially for cuju matches, which had six crescent-shaped goal posts at each end.
The sport was improved during the Tang Dynasty Since it has a system of promotion and descent to the China League One. As in most countries with low temperatures in winter, the season begins in March and ends in November. Disputed by 12 teams in its inaugural year, the league has been expanding to now have 16 clubs. Therefore, the Chinese Super League presents an identical format to that of most football championships, with a regular league competition that runs from March to November, thus avoiding winter.
The team with the most points at the end of the season is proclaimed league champion, while the last two descend to the second level of Chinese football, the China League One. There is also a cup championship, the Chinese Cup of Soccer. The league is governed by the FIFA regulations, with three points for victory, one in case of a tie and none in defeat.
To promote Chinese football, the national Federation limits the number of foreign players to four per team, being able to align three of them, with an extra place for those coming from a country assigned to the Asian Confederation. In the first season of Jia A was held, a league that allowed participation in the highest category of clubs belonging to companies, and forced all its members to adopt professionalism.
Previously, only clubs related to local federations, or those linked to the army or the police, could participate in the national championships. The first champion was Dalian Wanda.
The championship maintained a good progression until one thousand nine hundred and ninety seven, when the Chinese national team could not qualify for the 98 World Cup,. To give greater stability to Chinese football, the National Federation changed the championship again, and in changed its name to Chinese Super League. The new tournament obliged its participants to meet a series of economic requirements, as well as encourage the quarry and limit the hiring of foreigners.
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Nutrition-football-match Nutrition-football-players Sports Supplementation. Chongqing Olympic Sports Center. Yellow Dragon Sports Center. Shijiazhuang Ever Bright. Yutong International Sports Center. Today spelled zuqiu , it's still the word used for football. Kickball then was part of the wider urban culture of entertainment, sports, leisure and pleasure and there were different forms.
In one version the idea was to keep the ball in the air as long as possible, but there were also competitive team games in which the idea was to get a ball into a goal. Such a game, played by professionals, is described in a famous book, The Splendours of the Eastern Capital, about life in the capital, Kaifeng, in about Kickball clubs had managers, trainers, and captains, and in recent fascinating research, German scholar Hans Ulrich Vogel has turned up club handbooks that show what kickballing life was like then.
The members were often young men from wealthy families, though there were also itinerant professional kickballers, whom you could stick in your team as sleepers. Cuju was played as entertainment at court banquets or the reception of foreign envoys. Even emperors played kickball. There's a Song Dynasty painting of the Emperor Taizu himself apparently playing keepy-uppy, surrounded by beefy courtiers.
Or are they kickball stars, like David Beckham on a photo op with Prince Charles today? So what about the rules? This talks about two main forms of the game, one with and one without a goal. The goal was about 10m high, with a net of coloured rope, and in the middle a hole one foot in diameter. The two teams wore different strips, for example all red v all green. Captains wore hats decorated with little stiffened wings - the equivalent of the captain's armband today. Other players wore hats with curling wings.
One team began by passing the ball around until the "assistant ball leader" finally passed it to the "ball leader" or "goal shooter" who shot at the hole in the goal's netting. The other team then took up the ball and started its own round in the same way.
There were no goalkeepers.
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