Castro, one of Toulouse FC's Shanghai coaches, grew up playing soccer in Portugal, and for years coached professional teams until he came to Shanghai to work with Chinese youth teams. Alongside ...

The government believes it has identified the root problem holding back Chinese soccer: the “12-year-old trap.” ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is reported to be a big soccer fan, and he promised in a 2015 document to resuscitate the men's national team, damaged by abysmal results on the global stage and ...

Chinese football legend. Browning was born in Liverpool and joined Everton at the age of 10, before eventually going on to play for the first team and on loan throughout the EFL in the late 2010s.

One notable imported game this month is NetEase’s Pro Evolution Soccer Online, a large-scale multiplayer online ... surpassing last year’s total of 1,075. [NPPA, in Chinese] ...

Chinese soccer fanatics, the president included ... Currently, five Xinjiang athletes play in the Chinese Super League, the most popular of which being Mirahmetjan Muzepper, the first Uighur ...

BEIJING--Retired Chinese soccer player Hao Haidong has angered ... “If the national team feels pressure to play the club teams, how can they cope with it when facing other national teams?” ...

On Sunday, the 2024 Chinese Super League campaign came to a ... but the era when Evergrande (now simply known as Guangzhou FC and playing in the second tier) were crowned champions of Asia in ...

Infantino met with Chinese soccer governing body officials in Shanghai on Thursday. They discussed plans to ensure more youngsters play and excel in soccer and how FIFA programs can further soccer ...