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Young Chinese soccer players eat lunch in the canteen of the Evergrande International Football School near Qingyuan in Guangdong province. The sprawling 167-acre campus was the brainchild of property tycoon Xu Jiayin, who aims to train a generation of young athletes to establish China as a football powerhouse. China, though a world leader in many respects, once again failed to qualify for the World Cup this year.
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- Soccer on the Silk Road, How the ‘Beautiful Game’ Came to Xinjiang, by Zhang Xinmin, July 12, 2014
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Young Chinese soccer players eat lunch in the canteen of the Evergrande International Football School near Qingyuan in Guangdong province. The sprawling 167-acre campus was the brainchild of property tycoon Xu Jiayin, who aims to train a generation of young athletes to establish China as a football powerhouse. China, though a world leader in many respects, once again failed to qualify for the World Cup this year.
Related:
- Soccer on the Silk Road, How the ‘Beautiful Game’ Came to Xinjiang, by Zhang Xinmin, July 12, 2014